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It has been a while since I posted about RedDiamond, the editor with EDT keypad navigation, but there is finally an AppImage of it. Granted the New World Order wants Flatpaks<\/a> of everything, but this is one small step. Those of you who are interested can follow the journey forward from its first post starting here<\/a>. Given Qt Company has gotten Qt run out of much of the IT industry on a rail. Yes, with all of its licensing shenanigans and the relentless pursuit of QML to the detriment of the entire product, everyone has to look for something else because no company not already married to it will spend money on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can download the AppImage from here<\/a>. I will try to keep pull requests submitted for every major version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

File Versioning<\/h2>\n\n\n
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RedDiamond backups<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One feature I absolutely wanted in what was going to be “my editor” was file versioning. I had to call them backups so the non-OpenVMS crowd could understand. Every time you save a file, the previous version is moved to the backup directory. The name gets mangled so the full path can be restored. You should notice from the image that it gets a .b000NN version number appended.<\/p>\n\n\n

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General Settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

By default backups are enabled and the dept is set to 250. A RedDiamond_Backups directory is created in $HOME which you can change. Some of you might be using a tiny SSD for boot and great big freaking drives for development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now all you can really do with backups is look at them. Clicking on one in the list will open it in a new tab so you can view\/edit. I need to make that a READ-ONLY tab. In a future release I hope to have DIFF capabilities much like Meld. You should be able to DIFF against a prior backup, the cache version (if any), the file currently on disk, or version control. We are not there yet!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh yes, Caches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can’t change the cache directory. Earlier versions allowed that, but this one cannot. It has to do with the “starting where you left off” capability. The cache directory is determined by QStandardPaths<\/a>. In particular by whatever gets returned using QStandardPaths::CacheLocation<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text editors have the following operation choices to make before the first line of their code is written:<\/p>\n\n\n\n