modification date tracking

[Sean Ahern]

On Jan 21, 2006, at 6:27 AM, Warren Young wrote:
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Edward Renaud wrote:
>> just changing the selection or hoisting a section causes the  
>> prompt to save changes to appear.
>
> Naturally...the file does need to be saved at that point.

Does it?  I would say that there's a bit of a subjective judgement  
here.  I know that there are some applications that only say the  
document needs to be saved (or claim that it's been changed) if the  
actual content changes.  That is, if the view is changed or  
selections are moved to different places, the document is considered  
unmodified.

I wonder if OO could save things like the current selection and hoist  
into a file when saved, but not require that selection/hoist changes  
necessitate saving the file.

Just some thoughts to spur debate.

-Sean

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Sean Ahern
Oak Ridge National Laboratory