Peter Clifton wrote: Others save hidden files (e.g. vim's swp file), and make > sure they are deleted on successful save so we don't end up with hidden > clutter.
I like using .xxxx.pcb or .xxxx.sch files as saves. Vim's popup dialogs about what to when opening files are annoying though... to obviate the need for that, we could have two save files, .xxxx.sch and .xxx.sch.sav would be saved to on close. autosave would save to .xxx.sch.sav only. That way if you open a file and see that it is not the latest data, the autosave will not clobber the latest data in .xxxx.sch. A menu pulldown called revert wuld revert to .xxxx.sch. The autosave file would never be one to revert to, since you don't remember if was autosaved to or not...(in the scenario when you opened a file, waited around some, then noticed it was not containing typing just before a crash of some kind [Xorg crashes because of some other program for instance]). John G -- Ecosensory Austin TX _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
