Notepad3: New file with whitespaces closes without file save question

[alexantr]

1. Create new file
2. Type some whitespaces
3. Сlose

Titlebar has mark but document will be closed with no question:

This behavior continues from original Notepad2 but I think question below must be shown.

[RaiKoHoff]

Yes, current explicit behavior is (pseudo code):

if (no file name) # (new file):
    if (empty or only contains spaces, tabs, and line-breaks):
         close application w/o request for saving ...

Some more opinions to change this behavior?

[alexantr]

Can you add option to ask before exit even file contains only whitespaces?

[RaiKoHoff]

... and is "Untitled" (no file name given) - this is an additional condition for skipping the save requester.

So the explicit workflow in your use-case (_unnamed white-space only document_) would be to do an "Save as... F6" for forced saving ( instead of saving unintentionally a blank document named "Untitled" in current directory) :thinking: ?

More opinions ?

[alexantr]

Oh! Untitled is not a real file. In first step I mean command "File -> New"

[alexantr]

So the explicit workflow in your use-case (unnamed white-space only document) would be to do an "Save as... F6" for forced saving ( instead of saving unintentionally a blank document named "Untitled" in current directory) 🤔 ?

Yes. New Untitled document with white spaces must be saved before close.

[hpwamr]

Yes. New Untitled document with white spaces must be saved before close.

My opinion, it must ask to: Save, don't Save or Cancel. 🤔
Many other text editors do this.

• Notepad (original)
• Notepad++
• SciTE
• VS Code
• EditPadLite
• EditPlus

[alexantr]

My opinion, it must ask to: Save, don't Save or Cancel.

Agree

[RaiKoHoff]

There must have been a reason for the 10 extra lines of "business logic" Flo has put into the FileSave() method to avoid the "Save changes" requester on "_blank unnamed documents_", which would appear normally if this document analysis would not be done ... :thinking: ???

[hpwamr]

Edit: "with blank spaces"
Many other text editors save a "unnamed documents with blank spaces" as "Untitled", "Untitled x" or "new x" 😉

[RaiKoHoff]

Change:
If there are only empty lines (the doc consists of line-breaks only) it can be assumed as an "useless" document (except it got a Name).
So pressing ESC for Exit (if configured) leaves immediately.
If tabs or spaces are in, ask for saving... ?

[RaiKoHoff]

Notepad3 wants to be smarter as "many other text editors" :wink:

[hpwamr]

Edited : https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3/issues/1820#issuecomment-559514010

Notepad3 wants to be more polite and wants to ask for it: 🤣 🤣 🤣

[RaiKoHoff]

... I am going to write a "content analyzer" (like the encoding analyzer) and, if there is nonsense in the document, Notepad3 will wipe the corresponding file w/o inquiry. :rofl:

[RaiKoHoff]

Content analyzer is ready: Feel free to test dev beta ver _5.19.1128.2691_BETA.

[alexantr]

Content analyzer works as expected.