RedNotebook shouldn't load backup files as journal files

[Dom Delimar]

I don't know if there's some convention about linux *~ backup files but to me at least it was unexpected behavior when I edited my journal file outside RedNotebook (which automatically, based on my preferences, created a backup of the that file with "~" suffix) and started RedNotebook only to find my changes were not applied.
Log explained why this was:

INFO Opening journal at ~/.rednotebook/data
DEBUG Starting to load files in dir "~/.rednotebook/data"
DEBUG Start loading file "~/.rednotebook/data/2011-01.txt"
DEBUG Finished loading file "~/.rednotebook/data/2011-01.txt"
DEBUG Start loading file "~/.rednotebook/data/2011-01.txt~"
DEBUG Finished loading file "~/.rednotebook/data/2011-01.txt~"
DEBUG Finished loading files in dir "~/.rednotebook/data"

So RN read both files and in this case gave higher priority to my backup file.

I don't know if editing journal files directly is supported and if this behavior could thus be considered a simple wishlist and not a bug, but the reason I edited the file outside RN was because I accidentally put a whole lot of data on the wrong date and felt it would be *a lot* easier to just change the date info in the journal file rather than go through tedious copy-pasting. And by storing journal data in plain text you sure made it appealing and easy to do such edits and thanks for that :) - and this certainly isn't even a big bug since all one has to do is remove backup files and everything goes back to normal (some might even have their systems setup in a way they will never hit this bug) but it sure seems to me it wouldn't hurt a bit if RN ignored certain files, backup ones for starters.

And let me just add this is a lovely program you've created. Just started using it and I already can't see myself not using it from now on. Thank you! :)

[Jendrik Seipp (jendrikseipp)]

Thanks for the report. This is indeed a bug. It has been fixed in trunk.