Setting "text" to "plain" in the configuration can have unpleasant consequences for text files

[aplteam]

I had already a text variable History that was saved in a file History.apla.

Recently I added text:plain to the Link configuration file.

In such a case the contents of the file History.apla is correctly established on a variable History in the APL workspace. But because of the new setting, when one changes the variable in the editor, the change is not written back to file by Link.

The reason for this is that Link compiles the filename as History.vec.apla, and then checks whether that file is already on disk. It's not, and because of that Link does not do anything.

That's not what should happen. As a user of Link, of course I expect Link to process this accordingly:

• Save the changes in History.vec.apla
• Delete the file History.apla