22 Sep
2023
22 Sep
'23
8:05 p.m.
J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote on 9/22/23 13:34:
On 2023-09-19 15:38:26 you wrote:
??? I wanted to delete the new session that I was in, so that it wouldn't get
written to disk, so that when I next opened kate, it would be in the same
state as in state 5.
There are three session-related choices when I quit: Save, Delete, Cancel.
Cancel obviously isn't right, because that cancels the attempt to quit. Save
isn't right, because if I do that, the next time I open kate, it remembers the
text I type in 6, and also gives me the sidebar. So "delete" was the only
thing that made sense.
Feel free to tell me what I should have selected... but I've explicitly tried
both Save and Delete, and neither did the right thing.
J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote on 9/18/23
23:32:
But why did
you want to delete the session which is remembering that you
don't want the sidebar to be displayed? Configuration of the Sessions feature in Kate
has always been confusing
(at least for you and me).
If you Click on Sessions => Select Session > how many sessions do you
see?
One (called "Unnamed").
In the image you posted, 'Behavior on
Application Exit or Session
Switch' at the bottom is set to 'Do not save session'; perhaps, though
you have created a new session, your session info was not saved into it?
You could change that to 'Ask user' to see if that helps.
I did that, and it changed things, although not really a help:
With "Do not save session" selected:
1. Open blank kate.
This has a sidebar with "Untitled" in it.
2. Change session configuration to: "Ask user".
3. Remove sidebar.
4. File | Quit
Asks me whether to save the session; click "Save".
---
5. Open blank kate.
No sidebar. Good. But...
6. Type some text.
7. File | Quit
Asks me whether to save the file.
I select yes, and give it a filename.
Asks me whether to save the session; click "Delete". Now that you know that the session is recording that,
you can change 'Ask
user' to 'Save session' (it really means 'Re-save session') and it
will
remember it forever. 'Load last-used session' and 'Save session' will
do
what you want.
OK, so, going back to the initial configuration, I execute:
1. Open blank kate.
This has a sidebar with "Untitled" in it.
2. Change session configuration to: "Ask user".
3. Remove sidebar.
4. File | Quit
Asks me whether to save the session; click "Save".
5. Open blank kate.
No sidebar. Good.
6. Change session configuration to "Save Session".
7. Check that session configuration says "Load last-used session". It does.
8. File | Quit
Kate immediately quits, with no questions.
9. Open blank kate.
This has a sidebar with "Untitled" in it.
So at what step did I do something different from what you think I should do?
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