Move/Ditch the 'Save As' button

I agree in completely ditching Save/Save As. We should only have one Save button that does it all. I understand that, if most people don't agree, we should just move the buttons.

It seems that the button has been dicthed... but the current button does not do it all... i.e. it only has the save as option when it is a newly created file... the only way to do a save as is using the contract, but that does not change the working environment to the new file, that is new changes are not saved to the new, but to the original file.

Yes, the "Save as" button was ditched but you can however use the save as function with the keyboard shourtcut Control+shift+s.

Rationale: it's not clear that you're working on a different file after "save as". The proper way to "save as" is open a new doc and copy-paste your text there and then save

Wait a minute, we're removing the Save As button because it might be confusing to new users? Even my grandma knows the difference between Save and Save As. A keyboard shortcut or a hacky copy-new_doc-paste-save dance is not more user friendly then a button.

Guys, come on. If the user is running linux, I think they just might already know the difference between Save and Save As.

An idea: If you think Save As is to vague, call it "Save as new file"

Matthew, the problem isn't about the "Save As" per se, it's that when you "save as", the file you're modifying is changed with the new location and this may be confusing, since it's hard to understand what he's working on.

I understand that, that's why I suggested that it be renamed to Save as
new file.

On 03/11/2012 10:49 AM, Andrea Basso wrote:
> Matthew, the problem isn't about the "Save As" per se, it's that when
> you "save as", the file you're modifying is changed with the new
> location and this may be confusing, since it's hard to understand what
> he's working on.
>