Re: [Texmacs-dev] Absolute versus relative file:... paths

[David Allouche]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 12:18:34PM -0700, Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 06:20, David Allouche wrote:
> [...]
> > As I exposed, this would only be problematic in an IMHO unimportant
> > corner case.
> 
> All true.  In fact, as long as one saves thew buffer immediately after
> creating it or strictly before linking the first image, relative paths
> are always used.  So, a less invasive (to the code) way of doing things
> would be to ask the user whether (s)he wants to save the document before
> linking in the first image. 

I think that would be confusing. When linking an image, one does not
expect to get involved in a document saving procedure. Also it is often
convenient (at least for testing) to link images from documents which
are never saved.

> This would not eliminate the copuling between the file saving process
                               ^^^^^^^^ cute typo :)
> and the image linking process, but it would save us a modification of
> the saving routine (no pun intended).

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