On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to edit one of my locally stored function packages. In > particular I click the button "Add/remove functions" in the edit > window, I get the next window with the function lists, and I remove > (by clicking the red arrow) one of the private helper functions, then > click OK. This action has no effect AFAICS. > > The save gfn option under the save button is greyed out, as if I > hadn't changed anything. > > This is with a fairly recent snapshot on Windows. Hmm, would you mind sending me a copy of the gfn file?

On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote: > Am 29.09.2016 um 20:35 schrieb Allin Cottrell: >> >> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to edit one of my locally stored function packages. In >>> particular I click the button "Add/remove functions" in the edit >>> window, I get the next window with the function lists, and I remove >>> (by clicking the red arrow) one of the private helper functions, then >>> click OK. This action has no effect AFAICS. >>> >>> The save gfn option under the save button is greyed out, as if I >>> hadn't changed anything. >>> >>> This is with a fairly recent snapshot on Windows. >> >> Hmm, would you mind sending me a copy of the gfn file? > > It's the PTconf.gfn inside the zip file which is in the staging area. OK, thanks, Sven. I grabbed that and tried editing the gfn file: I arbitrarily removed the private function putGS via the "Add/Remove functions" dialog, and the "Save gfn" option was active OK. This was on Linux; I guess I'll have to test on Windows too...

Am 30.09.2016 um 16:48 schrieb Cottrell, Allin: > Well, I just tried the same exercise on Windows 8 using the current gretl > snapshot and got exactly the same result: after removing a private > function from PTconf via the GUI, the "Save gfn" option became available > as it should. (Also an asterisk appeared in the title bar of the function > package editor -- "gretl: PTconf *" -- indicating "something has been > changed".) So for now I'm at a loss; is there any other information > about your case that could be relevant? > I don't know, but thanks for trying. All I can say is that I had tried several times. The only thing that occurs to me right now is that re-starting gretl might help. Will test that.