Re: [Texmacs-dev] Default naming of exported files

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> Here is a behavior that seems likely to cause someone to lose
> a file someday. This behavior occurs with 1.0.1.14.
>
> Suppose I create a .tm file called myfile.tm. Then I export
> a LaTeX file. A window pops up asking for a filename. The
> default name of the file should obviously be myfile.tex.
>
> INSTEAD, the filename proposed by TeXmacs is
> myfile.tm. I am prompted, `file exists, overwrite?'
>
> It is easy to get conditioned to ignore this message,
> since the same message invariably occurs if I give the
> file the logical name myfile.tex, if I have already
> such a file. (It seems to me that there is no strong
> reason to prompt the user before overwriting an
> automatically generated file.)
>
> When I export a latex file, the default filename
> proposed by TeXmacs should clearly NOT be myfile.tm.
>
> If I do not edit the filename but click OK I have
> overwritten my original file.
>
> To make matters worse, if I accidentally do overwrite
> the .tm file with the exported latex file, then try to
> save the original file, I am told no changes need to
> be saved. This despite the fact that the original file
> has been destroyed.

This has been fixed for the next version.