Re:Redesigning the Save Symbol
by whatshisface on Friday April 05, 2013 @07:28PM
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Then you would have to have millions of buttons for the millions of things people do with files. The beauty of the filesystem is that a single function (save) can be extended by other programs into many things. (Source control, file transfer, editing in another program, ect.)
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The fact that you don't manually save does not mean the files aren't represented on a file system. Source control, file transfer and editing in another program can work unchanged.
Though you would need to worry about atomicity when having a file open in two editors constantly "auto-saving" the document; you'd need some way to synchronise state. Probably easiest to make file write access exlusive by default.