A common usecase for RIDE is to close down APL only to restart a pristine interpreter, possibly with slightly tweakted settings. It'd be nice to have options to do each thing (in addition to the current just quit everything), and also a behaviour setting "when APL closes… ◉ close RIDE ◎ restart APL ◎ show connect screen"
The current "quit" should be renamed "quit RIDE and APL"
IDE:
Version: 4.5.4043
Electron: 25.3.2
Chrome: 114.0.5735.248
Node: 18.15.0
Platform: Win32
Date: 2023-09-26 17:25:50 +0200
Git commit: 5f3a6111e4c67f4c605b4cdbaff1088208d5972d
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Interpreter:
Version: 20.0.48254
Platform: Windows-64
Edition: Unicode/64
Date: Dec 4 2023 at 20:26:09
Describe the issue you are having
A common usecase for RIDE is to close down APL only to restart a pristine interpreter, possibly with slightly tweakted settings. It'd be nice to have options to do each thing (in addition to the current just quit everything), and also a behaviour setting "when APL closes… ◉ close RIDE ◎ restart APL ◎ show connect screen"
The current "quit" should be renamed "quit RIDE and APL"