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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:20:29 +0200
From: "Bert Timmerman (bert DOT timmerman AT xs4all DOT nl) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem - backup file names aren't differentiated
 in the 'Open Recent' menu, very confusing!
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Chris Green wrote:
> In the directory where I am currently working I have the following
> files:-
>
>      chris$ ls -l
>      total 48
>      -r--r--r-- 1 chris chris   45 Jul  6 15:26 #untitled_1.sch#
>      -rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 2028 Jul  6 15:29 bbbpsu.sch
>      -r--r--r-- 1 chris chris 2052 Jul  6 15:05 bbbpsu.sch~
>      -rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 5995 Jul  5 19:34 lm10adc.sch
>      -r--r--r-- 1 chris chris 5679 Jul  5 19:18 lm10adc.sch~
>      -rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 8739 Jul  3 21:12 odinbbb.sch
>      -r--r--r-- 1 chris chris 7557 Jul  3 17:20 odinbbb.sch~
>
>
> If I look in the 'File'->'Open Recent' menu in gschem I see:-
>
>      0. bbbpsu.sch
>      1. socket.sym
>      2. odinbbb.sch
>      3. odinbbb.sch
>      4. 12n.sch
>      5. odinbbb.sch
>
>
> This really isn't very useful! :-)   There's no way to tell which
> 'odinbbb.sch' is the latest one, I'd guess it's the one at number 2
> but it's hardly user friendly.
>
> While I'm at it why are there both xxxxx.sch~ and #xxxxx.sch# files?
> Plus, while I'm at it, # is a really rubbish character to use because
> it's the comment marker in most (Unix/Linux) shells.
>
> I'll add these to the bug tracker if they're reasonable comments.
>
>    
Hi Chris,

The recent files should not display more tan one version of a file ... 
the most recent only ... I think that is a bug ... please report that one.

The #xxx.sch# is a lock file ... the xxx.sch~ is a back up file (the 
former version of the file ... not worthy of a bug report ... will 
probably become a "won't fix" ;-)

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.