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A repository for teaching the fundamentals of GIT
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Test what Notepad does when the file on the disk has changed (emacs asks the user). #5

Closed andrew-edwards closed 7 years ago

andrew-edwards commented 7 years ago

We tested (I opened a .tex file in Notepad, Chris changed it and pushed, I fetchec and merged), and Notepad i) doesn't lock the file; ii) lets you edit it; iii) lets you save it without any warning (thereby overwriting the new version that I fetched from Chris. That is not good. Conclusion: avoid Notepad.

Need to get someone to test RStudio also. Nick K might know (though I think he only uses git for himself and not GitHub).

andrew-edwards commented 7 years ago

Over lunch Eric Pederson (from Newfoundland) and Davon Callendar said that Notepad ++ works okay. And that RStudio works fine as well.

cgrandin commented 7 years ago

Andy will create a slide on the editors

cgrandin commented 7 years ago

I installed Notepad++ and it warns you as soon as the file has changed on disk, so it works fine.

andrew-edwards commented 7 years ago

Okay, great. I'm checking with people but haven't got an answer yet. Do you want to add a slide saying if people usually just use Notepad for editing simple text files then they need Notepad II and to install it. And that if they use Emacs, vim, or RStudio (for R) then they're fine.

andrew-edwards commented 7 years ago

Chris did, and Andy added a bit more in 7c59ea0.

andrew-edwards commented 7 years ago

When doing the above comment, realised that you need seven digits from a HASH for GitHub to automatically create a link, so have updated HASH slide with that.