Error: File already exists when trying to make a new note

[Moonbase59]

This is one to think about: Let’s take the word 'human'. In English, this can be a noun as well as an adjective, in German it’s an adjective.

I’m bilingual and switch between English and German quite a lot, so it sometimes happens a word is in both languages, but I still want to make a note of it. When trying this with 'human', the plugin detects the file Human.md already present in my Dictionary folder and simply gives an error message Error: File already exists.

This poses two problems:

• What if I wish to overwrite the original with a new version (say, from another synonym provider)?
• How to distinguish dictionary notes in multiple languages?

I’d propose the following solutions:

• For existing notes in the dictionary folder, either
  • overwrite the existing file (potentially dangerous if someone manually edited it!), or
  • show a modal asking if it should be overwritten.
• For multiple language dictionaries:
  • Let the user template the dictionary name. So if she wanted the dictionary split into multiple language Dictionaries, maybe use something like Dictionary ({{language}}) and fill in the currently selected dictionary language upon note creation. This would then use folder names like Dictionary (German) or Dictionary (English (US)), in my example.
    Since the two-letter ISO 639 and RFC 5646 codes are quite popular, these might also be used and generate something like Dictionary (en-US) or Dictionary (de-DE). Maybe even with a second template variable like {{lang}} or something?
    If no template variable was used in the dictionary name, assume a "one-for-all" folder. This would be the case for most users that only use one language.

[phibr0]

These are good improvements. I will start working on these next week!

[Moonbase59]

Well, not a bad idea. I totally forgot about the prefix and suffix possibilities. So we can at least have one dictionary with the entries sorted. I’ll probably use it as a prefix, though. Good you replace it in there, too ;-)