On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 12:04 PM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that making Leo do autosave smoothly every few seconds or at least > often could be hard. I certainly wouldn't want it to freeze for a short > (or sometimes longer) time while it saved. > > OTOH, I'm never sure I really want autosave. I've had plenty of times > where I don't save on purpose since I suspect I might want to revert what > I'm trying out. When that's not the case, It's easy enough to save, which > I tend to do by reflex, probably left over from Windows 95 and Windows 2000 > days (remember them?). > I tend to appreciate an editor that has 2 "states". One being the current running content of any editor window/tab/pane/etc that can consistently be saved, with undo history, to disk, as things are typed. The other, being the state of the file itself. I want an editor to remember everything I've just typed since [the opening of the editor if nothing is saved / the last save] in that 'constant undo-history-saved running state' and then when I want to write out to a file, it then moves the current state into the saved file. Kate/kwrite almost dues this, if you save a file first. Sublimetext actually does as I describe, but does not work the same way Leo can, and extending it is far different than what Leo can do (as well as is closed source/paid) I haven't used many other editors, since having this functionality is somewhat required since I've experienced 25+ years of random hard _machine_ freezes, not just editor freezes, and I need to recover what I've typed. I stopped using SGI XFS because it would not reliably flush its caches out to disk and I'd hard crash, and a file I *knew I had just saved* was gone. Ugh. Now its root-on-ZFS and I attempt to use things that save intermediate state so that an app or system crash won't delete more than a minute or so of work. Mike Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAN%2B%2B4hEOL5xZPz5uZ9uHS6ttDst9qy_PHwyZZUhRsS%3D%2BTDA1aQ%40mail.gmail.com.
