Hey there, Peter Popov wrote: > Little Girl: > > Ah, then you'd have to get around that by copying it to another > > file, letting that one save, and leave the unchanged original > > intact. > Yes. It's the same plugin. From this point of view Geany is > extremely well organized. Although the first day I had a problem > with double closing brackets as the bracket closing extension does > not disable the geany preferences.
I'm not sure I've encountered that. Did you end up solving it? > > By the way, auto-save is dangerous unless you keep incremental > > copies of each one. > Certainly. And also dangerous is to rely on the user to remember to > save often. Yes. I've noticed that as my current handicap as well, but not for long now that I know Geany has a handy way of doing incremental auto-saves. > > There was no way to retrieve the data. I rewrote what I could > > remember of it, but I could feel that it wasn't as good the > > second time around. > Which makes for a cleaner rewrite as the story is already clearer > in the mind. Which would make sense to disable the auto save. No, definitely not. In that case it was frustrating because I was acutely aware that my second approach wasn't nearly as good as my first. You can just tell when you're writing magic, and I wrote magic that day, but only once... > It can also be a waste of time. Yes, but I like the idea of the safety net just in case, so I'm happy you and someone else in here mentioned that I can have one without needing to script it. > > If I wanted auto-save [...] I'd write a script to capture each > > auto-save the instant the program spits it out and rename it with > > the date and time (to the second) and do manual clean-up > > afterwards. > Geany has it all in the same extension. Save actions. Yes, thanks! Thanks to both of you for letting me know about it! -- Little Girl There is no spoon. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
