nigelmu Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 As an avid taker of notes for years on the Mac and now on the PC - you seem to have rather shifted your approach to saving user notes in 10.3.3. I have always made a habit of using the 'control s' keystroke to regularly save my notes. (With the windows version still 'developing' this has become all the more important as crashes are fairly common). I see as of 10.3.3 that when I ctrl s - it closes the edit window. Can this feature be disabled or controlled in some way or is this actually a bug? Many thanks Nigel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve King Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 This is a statement from the updates page for 10.3.3. Command-S from a notes edit window now also closes the window, if it is displayed over a pane See the following page http://www.accordancebible.com/New-Since-10. Windows info is towards the bottom of the page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Lawrence Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 This is a statement from the updates page for 10.3.3. Command-S from a notes edit window now also closes the window, if it is displayed over a pane See the following page http://www.accordancebible.com/New-Since-10. Windows info is towards the bottom of the page. This has been a frustrating change. I have been a Mac user since 1985 and have a habit of saving periodically as I work. This comes from previous years where software wasn't that stable and if you didn't save often you could lose your work. I can't tell you how many times since 10.3.3 that I have been typing in a note and saved only to close my window. I would like to suggest a return to the previous set up of clicking the "update" button or using Command-W. Or, at least allow us the option to disable this "feature." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 When I first saw this changed I was puzzled by it given the presence of Cmd/Ctrl-W which already closes the window and which still works. And yes its handy to have a periodic save which does not close the editor. But I'm also puzzled by something else. The update notes say this : Command-S from a notes edit window now also closes the window, if it is displayed over a paneWhat does "if it is displayed over a pane" mean ? I have tried putting it to the side of my workspace over the desktop and it still closes on cmd-S. So while I would prefer this change were reverted I am curious why it was done - it was clearly intentional. I also note that it was restricted to notes and not applied to tools. And no, I'm not advocating that it be applied there too, but I don't understand why those two editors are not basically identical functionally. ThxD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Han Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I am not a fan either. From my (therefore biased) perspective, it doesn't help my workflow but impedes it. Cmd-S and then Cmd-W to save and then close a document window is a habit learned over many years of Mac use across all different kinds of apps. I can't tell how many times I accidentally closed a window I did not want to close because of my Cmd-S and Cmd-W kicking in even after Cmd-S already closed the edit window. My Cmd-S then Cmd-W ends up closing the active text / tool views, which I have to reopen. I think Accordance is a very complex app, and it doesn't help when it does unexpected things against the normal Mac / Window conventions. I think it's just going to make the learning curve even more steeper than it already is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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