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New user, rookie coder

#1

Thanks in advance for explaining this basic stuff.

If I’m editing a file, and want to see it as I last saved it, I open another tab, then do File>Open… and open it from the disk. However, it doesn’t load the file from disk, instead filling this new tab with a duplicate of the current edited state. This is different than any other app I’m familiar with. Is there some reason why this is desireable behavior? Also when I quit Sublime, it doesn’t ask to save changes in any of the tabs… if I don’t save each tab before closing, when I relaunch sublime it seems to re open with all my edits, even though I didn’t save them. Apparently Sublime auto-saves all my edits somewhere? Again, this seems like an odd design choice, what am I missing?

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#2

Which OS?

This is a feature called “hot_exit”, Sublime will save session date /state when you quit sublime and persist it across launches. If you don’t need those edits closing the file tab, will allow you to cancel those changes.

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#3

Mac OS 10.14.

thanks for the reply. How do you recommend I view the Saved version of a file without losing my edits?

Save As… seems to have done something unexpected, also… somehow my earlier versions get overwritten. I think an in-depth perusal of available documentation is in order- best source?

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#4

I’ll reply more thoroughly once at my keyboard.

As for docs, there is the sublime text docs that should be available at https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/3/ and also unofficial docs at https://docs.sublimetext.io

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#5

If you want to see what’s different between the file as it is now and as it was at the last save, the context menu item Show Unsaved Changes will open a panel that shows you (as a file diff).

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#6

Thanks…

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