[Hitch]

Originally Posted by anthony.burton4

No what's been going on is that people have been trying to convince me that Sigil has always behaved in a certain way, when I know damn well it hasn't.

Even though I see that Diap has tried repeatedly to explain this, and you seem to be unwilling to hear what he's saying, that's not right. Previously, you simply didn't know that Sigil "changed" the file upon opening. Now, it tells you and gives you a choice. I believe--no offense--that you are confusing the old Tidy options with what occurred when attempting to open an invalid or imperfect ePUB.

My original question was "Am I missing something, another setting". The answer is no - Sigil has changed. I don't object to this - it's free - if I cared enough, I'd change it myself. The reason this thread has gone on so long is because people either haven't properly read what I've written, or they aren't as familiar with the program as myself. Previously you could completely disable auto-correction. Now you can't.
End of story.

No, what's changed is that now, Sigil tells you and you have a choice. Before, you didn't. As someone else noted, you seem to be objecting to the two pop-ups, primarily, so the easy solution is to view the ePUB with something like Calibre or ADE. If you want to view the guts, then live with Sigil's pop-ups. You can tell it to auto-correct, and then, if you don't like what it does, simply exit the program without saving. I mean...this is hardly a big deal. What DiapDealer is telling you is correct--you are misconstruing what Sigil is actually doing, and how it worked previously, versus how it works now. What's changed are a) the notifications and b) the options it gives you.

As you say you can code and fix it yourself, then just pop open the old install versions versus the new, and take a look at it. There's no reason to sit here and get angry at people who use this every damned day explaining to you that your previous perception as to how Sigil worked is inaccurate--you can prove it to yourself. These very changes (the notifications and the options) have been the topic of significant discussion on this forum, both before they were implemented and after. There were weeks of very intense discussion about the ability to save a "corrupted" ePUB deliberately and intentionally, so the regular users of Sigil happen to be extremely familiar with this particular aspect.

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

And once again... that's the part you're still exactly wrong about. You never could completely disable auto-correction in the past ... regardless of any warning(s) you didn't get.

Yes, Sigil's behavior has changed. But not in the way you're assuming it did.

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But I think I'm done. You seem to be getting angry over all this

Diap:

I don't think the explanations are working. Four different people--now 5--have all said the same thing, all of us apparently stupid, mistaken, or just lying for fun, one supposes.

I think that as he could recode it himself to "change" it, he can look at the old code in the packages versus the new and establish for himself that the auto-correct behavior is changed in a different way than he previously understood. If he's a coder, it's not like he's the typical newbie; he can look for himself. In fact, look at it this way: he can pop open the code in older editions versus this one just to prove us wrong, if he wishes. ;-) I suggest we let him get on with it.

Hitch