One of the more hidden Playground features are named Pages. Double-click the page tab title and give it a name, it will then be saved automagically in pharo-local/play-stash (and auto saves on changes from then on). I use that all the time.
On 29 Jun 2017, at 16:45, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:
Hi - I really like the playground metaphor, it really is such a nice way to experiment.
However I've noticed that unlike older versions of Smalltalk, it seems that DoIt operations in playground don't end up in the .changes file anymore (which I guess is a mixed blessing when you want to recover). It seems that the new metaphor is that work you do is saved as a page and you can see versions of your page in the upper right menu? Well sort of - as I haven't quite understood when it saves or doesn't? Often I get duplicate looking pages in that menu and often I make a change and want to keep it but find it doesn't save and if I accidentally close my playground my changes in a page are lost?
What are the semantics of page saving?
An example - if you do a few gofer loads of utilities and the put a comment on the first line of the page (which gives it a nice title in the page dropdown), sometimes that comment will be saved other times not?
I also think it might be nice to remove page versions to help tidy things up. I'm thinking of rolling my sleeves up on this idea - but wanted to understand the vision firsts
Tim
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