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Save As can capture a stale undo baseline for an edited background section #83

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@dustenhubbard

Problem

If a background section (b_section) is edited, then made the b_section via a save=False flicker (edits committed in memory but not written to disk), and the series is then Save-As'd, the undo baseline re-initialized for that section is taken from its stale on-disk file rather than its in-memory state.

Proposed

Flush the b_section (save it) before re-initializing undo state during Save As (main_window.py ~1549-1550), or assert its file is current. Also add a comment noting SectionStates.initialize's copy path assumes section.filepath is current.

Notes

Surfaced by the adversarial review of the undo-init change in PR #82 (which Closes #73). Pre-existing, not introduced by that change: in this state the section's committed edits are already lost to the saved .jser regardless (save reconstructs from the section files, not in-memory objects), and the undo history is cleared on Save As anyway. Tracking it as a latent save-flush gap.

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