Yes, I know that; used them, and many other application, for many years. :)
And, I can see the advantage to the IDEA�s autosave, backed with the LVCS, I have said so a couple of times already. But, since we want to beat the dead horse, there are disadvantages. For example, let�s say I am editing a bunch of files at one time(I set my Tabs to 25), and currently have changes in 2 or 3. Now, I Alt-Tab to another application, so IDEA saves for me. Now, when I come back, I lose that little * that shows me which files I was working with. To me, it is a mild a annoyance as it disrupts my work flow. Since IDEA does not have a MRU switching capability, and I can�t put the tabs into an order(MRU, manual, whatever), it is harder to find my files again; though I might be able to use ctrl-e to do it(except I don�t get my little * back unless I make a change to the file and it is not currently part of my work flow). You could do a version of auto-save, that is a mix of MS and IDEA. The auto-save would save the changes, however, it would not mark the file as saved Then, the user could have the option of closing the file without changing(in which case, IDEA would simply do the rollback for them). The best of both worlds(even ISPF can do something somewhat like this; and you only risk the loss of a single page of data at any one time). :) Of course, with some of the design limits(tab limits), this could cause some problems and require some checking(such as give the user the option of what to do with a file that is about to be shoved of the tabs but that has changes to it). As for the crashing, if the application is stable, that is generally not a problem. On my machine(laptop, 1G, 512M, W2K) I currently run IDEA, JCreator, MS Word, IE(several instances), Notetab Pro, CuteFTP(usually 3 instances), telnet, and Lotus Notes , and occasionally Excel, PowerPoint, Rumba(often 2 or 3 instances), and/or some other random applications(notepad, wordpad, calculator, cd play, media player), plus all the background stuff(Novel, Netware, Norton AV, etc.), all at the same time, and crashing has never been a problem. I can honestly say I have been burned more by having changes saved to something(rather by accident and/or on purpose) than by any crashes. Following the concern you have placed forward as a justification, I would suggest that auto-save should occur when changing files(tabs), just not changing focus from/to IDEA. _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
