anyway, this seems to be gone in the last test5 version, right?

so does it mean the entry "Opening patches from menu, command line, or messages to "pd" first check of the file is already open and if so only bring the existing patch to front." in the release notes is no longer true?

Em dom, 23 de set de 2018 às 20:43, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com> escreveu:


Em dom, 23 de set de 2018 às 17:35, Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu> escreveu:
actually, it's probably not a serious problem that one can multiply open help
files (if one really wants to), so probably it's not worth fixing this.

On the other hand, a naive user on a Mac would expect that clicking on a
file in the "finder", if Pd already has the file open, would show the user
the open file instead of opening another copy.

yeah, that and also not opening multiple instances of the help patch and test audio. I'm often seeing many duplicates that I really didn't mean to, and sometimes I get errors like "array multiply defined" and such because of that. 

not a big deal though