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BASIC Engine Firmware
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Enhancement: Save Without Line Numbers #84

Closed OzHawk closed 2 months ago

OzHawk commented 2 years ago

It would be really nice if it was possible to save a file from the command line without it saving the line numbers.

When I edit a program in a text editor, I don't want to use line numbers as it makes it easier to shuffle bits around, and also promotes good naming habits for Labels. When I load that program into memory, BE NG allocates the lines line numbers. For a start, these line numbers are consecutive, making it difficult to add new lines from the command line (You can use the renumber command to make space between the other lines. But if I then save that program from the command line, it gets saved with the line numbers, even though I loaded it without them to start with.

An optional parameter that indicated no line numbers would solve this...you'd only need the line numbers for those lines that were a destination label. OK, so that makes it sound really difficult to implement, but I still think the idea is sound.

save "myprogram.bas" -n

uli commented 2 months ago

That has since been implemented as "SAVE LINE OFF".