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Had a conversation about this a while ago... see Version v0.47, and now we have v0.57.1. 'It' seems not to be trivial, and certain tings are just not possible because it is an anonymous connectivity. Showing the file name would be a good thing, and also the path that it would save to. But as said, it is a while ago, and @Gordon made great improvements. For my own sake, I now put the path file name as comment in the top of my code... ;-)... the poor man's solution, but it works quite well for me (have just to make sure if I save it under a new name that I also change it in the file name... :(... diszipline up to me).
Good thing is the pop-up on save with same name that asks - in OS X - if I want to overwrite... This extra click 'stopped' bothering me...
Sometimes I'd like to jave a save-short cut like ctrl/cmd-s(ave). But other than that, it is what it is, and works pretty good for me.
The reason that the IDE is not a full fledged thing like many pro-IDEs (Eclipse, IntelliJ, ...) is the targeted audience: a more powerful IDE is intimidating... A marriage with a more modern JS and context supporting editor - Atom / Sublime / Brackets could be of help. Too bad that integration of the HW- things isn't that greate or easy... if even possible (for me, a build-tool-chain is not good enough). After all, I like the Web orientation of the IDE - Browser and plug-in/extension is good enough... too bad it is limited to Chrome... But more recently the node IDE is up, but I have not 'played' with it yet, since Chrome gives me what I need.