File | Open behavior (bug #1818)

[rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)]

All:

I've been looking at Bug #1818, that selecting an invalid file using 
File | Open creates opens a new calendar window anyway.  I have it 
fixed in my tree, but before I commit, I want to verify what people 
(particularly Miguel and the other maintainers) think is the correct 
behavior.

Since we offer File | New and File | Save As, I think the correct 
response is to refuse to open an invalid file (display a "File Not 
Found" error and return to the file selector); this is what my fix 
does.  The alternative, though, is to say that we're emulating the 
emacs behavior and treat an open on an invalid file as a request to 
create a new file with that name; I think that is at best unintuitive 
for the average desktop user, especially when faced with the New and 
Save As options.

Comments are appreciated.

-Russell


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Russell Steinthal		Columbia Law School, Class of 2002
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