On Jan 9, 2014, at 5:50 AM, Nicolai Hess <nicolaihess@web.de> wrote:

I don't think we have to discuss what would be the better alternative. People have different preferences and different workflows.
Why don't we make a setting for this? Something like "Codepanes can discard edits", and let Nautilus and other
codepanes behave like the Workspace (I remember a  time when workspaces asked too before discarding edits)

If the default is protective, this setting idea will get the best of both worlds

Why that default?

Because your design is optimist and thinks that a fresh Pharo is the first open on an user that never has seen one before

And you protect their experience with the best you can give