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Lightweight Plain-Text Editor for macOS
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More readable auto-naming for unsaved tabs #1587

Closed fffedor closed 5 months ago

fffedor commented 8 months ago

Hi.

Thanks for the great editor. I would like to suggest a feature for more readable names for new tabs.

It was previously suggested here to make it possible to edit new tab names and the feature was cancelled due to non-standard behaviour.

I would like to propose to do similar to Sublime Text editor, where the name of a new unsaved tab is taken from the first line of content (see screenshot). I think it would make it easier to recognise new tabs and more convenient. What do you think?

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1024jp commented 5 months ago

Hi, thank you for the request.

Last months, I have been pondering over your request and have come to the conclusion that we should still not adopt it. I know some apps (incl. Notes.app) have this feature, but I suppose it is too much for a general-purpose plain text editor that aims for simple operations like Coteditor.

Furthermore, renaming a file means moving the file on the system (even when they are unsaved documents). Given the stability of the application, we should be cautious about reading and writing files. Sorry.