I don't keep track of whether changes had been made, but if someone wants to 
hack it in, be my guest and send me an e-mail. I still have to check on what 
hysterical historical behavior was for this, so I winged it.

Gregory


> On 02/05/2024 4:50 PM EST Jim Hall via Freedos-devel 
> <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>  
> Not really about internationalization, so I'll make it a separate email:
> 
> 
> Whenever you quit Edlin, you always get this prompt:
> 
> > *q
> > Abort edit (Y/n)? y
> 
> I always find it a little concerning when I've already saved my file
> and Edlin asks if I want to "abort" my edit. It always makes me answer
> "n" and then write the file with "w" anyway before I use "q" again to
> quit. You get the same message with "e" ("end" : write and quit) which
> also makes me feel weird, which is why I prefer "w" then "q" to write
> then quit with individual steps so I know it's been saved.
> 
> So this one is really a suggestion: can we not display "Abort edit
> (Y/n)?" if the file has been saved and no changes made? Or if that
> "change detection" would be too much to add, then maybe don't display
> that message with "e" because the program is supposed to write before
> quitting anyway.
> 
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