[Gretl-users] unsaved datafile closed w/o asking

[Allin Cottrell]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> not sure if this is new (probably not): with the latest windows 
> snapshot it seems that running the 'open' command in a script 
> closes the current datafile without asking the user even if the 
> file has unsaved changes. I find this problematic because it has 
> just caused me some (minor) dataloss.

No, I don't think this is new. And it would be problematic to 
change this behavior, IMO.

A common (for me, anyway) cycle is: open script (which contains an 
'open' command); run script (may generate new variables); inspect 
output; revise script; run script again.  I would find it very 
tedious to be prompted for a data save each time round.

Probably a note to this effect should be added to the manual.

Allin.