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		humanperhaps 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu I feel like the default behavior should be to not write unless changes have been made. I may be misunderstanding here, but what would be getting written if nothing's been changed?

johannes1234321 8 months ago | [–]

It would overwrite changes made by external programs.

greiskul 8 months ago | [–]

Metadata about the file like modification time.

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