Reload files at request

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alskdf
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Reload files at request

Post by alskdf »

That's one feature that I really want to see implemented! Reloading files at the moment they're changed can be annoying, opening the file again when I want to check if something changed isn't a nice solution either. How about having a button or a shortcut to do that? Or even better, prompt to reload the page if it has changed and I leave the application and go back to it again. In that case, I won't be distructed while i'm looking at it every time the file changes and it can happen quite a lot if you're looking at logs.

If anyone knows how to do it with current release please let me know!

thanks
mattboy_slim
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Post by mattboy_slim »

I would also like to put my name in the hat for this one.
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

Does File | Revert do what you want?
alskdf
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Post by alskdf »

ben_josephs wrote:Does File | Revert do what you want?
not really. I'm talking about delaying reloading of the file, not about going back to what it was originally. If needed I can usually get there with ctr+Z 's, textpad remembers quite a lot!
ben_josephs
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Post by ben_josephs »

File | Revert does not undo your editing actions; it reloads the file from disk. So if another application has changed the file, File | Revert loads the changed version. I understood this as being one of the two things you were requesting.
alskdf
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Post by alskdf »

ben_josephs wrote:File | Revert does not undo your editing actions; it reloads the file from disk. So if another application has changed the file, File | Revert loads the changed version. I understood this as being one of the two things you were requesting.
I don't know how I overlooked that one, it does exactly what I need! thanks a lot. I can even record it as a macro! :D

Is there a way to assign a shortcut to it? sorry if it's something obvious to everyone else in here...
thanks in advance
bveldkamp

Post by bveldkamp »

Configure > Preferences > Keyboard

Categories: File
Commands: FileRevert
alskdf
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Post by alskdf »

thank you!
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