"Save" needs to mean an unqualified, not open for discussion SAVE, and you need to dump the Ctrl + R shortcut for Replace.
I started work on a TI process at 04:30 this morning. As is my way, I would hit Ctrl + S every few minutes to save the TI process to disk.
Or so I thought. The TI had syntax errors in it. Of course it did. Fragments of imported code, element lists, notes to self, etc; that's why we call it "development". If you wait until you have pristine, compilable code to save, then you are pretty much guaranteed to lose it.
In the classic TI editor if you have a syntax error you will get a pop-up in your face asking you to confirm the save. Annoying, but I understand the point. You don't with Arc. You get a little disk icon to the right of the syntax error which you are apparently required to click as confirmation. Even if you don't normally use icons but use keyboard shortcuts for efficiency. Even if you aren't LOOKING at the syntax errors and don't CARE whether there are syntax errors before you reach the end of the process because, again, "DEVELOPMENT".
When I hit Ctrl + S it is not my intention to enter into a discussion with the software. I am not interested in thinking about whether I really want to do that. It's not a negotiation. It's a clear, unambiguous direction from me to the software saying "Put THAT on the disk, and do it now."
However since Arc second guessed me every time I hit Ctrl + S, and since the work under DEVELOPMENT apparently still had syntax errors each time I did so, and since I had paid no heed to the little floppy disk icon next to the syntax warning, NOTHING was saved to disk. Not once.
Around about 05:45 I went to do a replace on some of the text code. I try Ctr + H which is the standard Excel shortcut. Nothing. So I hover over the replace icon and see the tooltip that it's Ctrl + R.
Did you know that Ctrl + R in Chrome is a shortcut for "Reload Page"?
No, neither did I. I do now, though.
One and a quarter hour's work up the spout with one keystroke.
Suggestions:
- Get rid of the supposed Ctrl + R shortcut (or at least the tooltip therefor) for Replace lest anyone else get caught by this;
- Give us at least an OPTION to tell Arc to display but ignore syntax errors on a save, or at least give us a shortcut like Ctrl + Alt + S to do so.