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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
And eschwartz: at no time did I ever say that Sigil's developers do not care about their user base. That is a misinterpretation made for reasons I will not speculate upon because a solution has been found and that's all that matters.
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Well, of course...
That is a little trick of mine that I like to call the "inference".
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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
What made John such as good development coordinator was that he listened to and understood his user base. [...] Thus I find your response perplexing.
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You wanna try your hand at inferring meaning from what I say? Go right ahead. I am confident I have straightforward motivations.
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As you say, it doesn't really matter anymore, Kevin was able to find a way to prevent such an error in a safe and nondestructive manner.
And I agree it would be good for Sigil to do as much of the paperwork as it can. While at the same time acknowledging that given a choice between avoiding potentially-destructive changes à la Tidy, and automatically dealing with validation errors on behalf of the user... avoiding destructive changes is the philosophical priority of the Sigil developers (including John).