An editor changes the contents of the file, changes could be anywhere, not just at the end. Therefore the whole file is re-written on save which is not an append operation.
Cheers Lex On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 01:07, Andrew Kennedy via Users <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I added the append only attribute to a text file. > > But I get operation not permitted when I try to use Geany to edit the file. > > But I can use "echo new >> test.txt and it does append. > > What am I not understanding? > > Thanks, > Andrew Kennedy > > > Sent via personal computer > "It is always too soon to quit." > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
