Allow -text=plain on specific variables
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Description
Something I ran into today was trying to adjust one of my variables on disk from -text=aplan to -text=plain. There does not seem to be an easy way to do this. I propose that the -text= option be added to ]Link.Add so that specific variables can be encoded that way without having to store every variable in the workspace the same way.
If I've already got a variable in aplan format (as I did in this case), ]Link.Add would also need to detect the existence of a current file matching that name and rename the existing file (with new content) instead of just adding another file with a conflicting name.
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Research direction
Start at the ]Link.Add entry point and trace how it chooses the file representation and handles an existing variable file. The change is complete when a per-variable -text=plain option is supported and an existing aplan file is replaced or renamed without leaving a conflicting duplicate.
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
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- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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