[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56097] unlink ("filename") hangs GUI

[Rik]

Update of bug #56097 (project octave):

             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #38:

Sure, send the discussion over to the Maintainer's List and I'll close this
report.

I agree that either method, compile-time or run-time, produces code that can
be hard to follow.  With the run-time method, I feel like I'm back programming
in C and having to defensively check pointer validity all the time.

If we do opt to make the Editor Window valid at all times then we can either
skip fixing bug #56114 (gray out menu entries when Editor not present), or
fall back on a compile-time test.  My vote would still be to gray the entries
out because I find it a non-intuitive UI that lets me click on things only to
tell me afterwards that it is unavailable.  Better, in my mind, to give those
cues to the user earlier.

Closing this report.

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