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Re: [O] [ox-ascii] Export file overwrites source file
From: |
Nicolas Goaziou |
Subject: |
Re: [O] [ox-ascii] Export file overwrites source file |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:11:37 +0100 |
Hello,
"Sebastien Vauban"
<address@hidden> writes:
> As many people, I think, I've also associated Org-mode to .txt files.
>
> Now, with the new exporter, if I export `a.txt' as "plain text", it overwrites
> (without notice, BTW) my source file `a.txt': it's lost.
>
> Before, in such a case, the exporter noticed that I already had a file named
> `a.txt', hence it named the exported file as `a.txt.txt', what I found to be a
> good trade-off.
>
> Shouldn't that behavior be put back in the ASCII exporter?
Indeed. Export should never overwrite original file, whatever the export
back-end is.
It should be fixed in master. Thank you for reporting this.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou