>>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. <<
I'd say that's an issue with the Tabs, the lack of an MRU switching ability, etc... not so much a problem with auto-save. Personally, I used to rely on the * all the time, but now I just don't. Which makes me hurt for an MRU switching ability all the more (I keep adding more votes to it in Tracker, hoping against hope they'll slip it into this release... it's REALLY needed, and Ctrl-E is no substitute). So I completely agree with you on this one... I just put the blame elsewhere :-) I think relying on the * is more a side effect of not having a good MRU switching and tab-ordering mechanism, given the IDEA paradigm. >>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). :) << Sounds like an intersting concept, but let me take a stab at it from a different perspective... IDEA should allow you to specify a "label" for a given version automatically, and assign one automatically when a file is first opened and brought into an editor. You could reset the label to 'now' any time you wished on any given editor or set of editors. Rollback would always go back to the last 'labeled' version. Note, there wouldn't be a dialog with you typing in a label name or anything like that... just something automatic under the covers. Then there would be no need for a 'save' icon at all... just a 'mark' to mark the current version as something you want to be able to rollback to if you need to. >>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. << You make a good argument for this. It might be worthy of a Tracker suggestion. _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
