hi again Little Girl, ------- Original Message ------- Op dinsdag 26 juli 2022 om 20:57 schreef Little Girl <[email protected]>:> > > But my plan was to not having to click any button at all while > > writing. Saving is already auto. > > > Oh. I just saw this. I hadn't realized that automatic saving was even > possible, but then again, I'd be afraid of it. My luck, I'd > accidentally do something horrible to a file and it would obligingly > help me to do the dirty deed.
It has been available in Geany for a long time as a plugin but I remember an article by the Geany Devs explaining why they did not really like it... It had a humorist sort of title, something like " Everything you never wanted to know about saving" or something like that. The auto-save interval was set to 5 minutes, if I remember correctly. I tried to make that much shorter, but had to stop at 5 seconds...anything shorter caused instability. That was before version 1.38, which I only found some weeks ago. In the new version, I can speed up the interval to 1 sec! That's close to instantaneous. > Then again, your mention of it makes me thing it might not be a bad > idea to set it up as a supplement to my current method of being > fanatic about manually backing up my work. After all, we humans are > fallible and it's entirely possible that I might get caught up in > something or be interrupted and not realize I had missed a save. Yes, that's one of the powerful aspects of auto-saving. If you would be able to combine it with a sync service that lets you roll back to an earlier save-point in your work, it would be virtually indestructible and very reliable. > > For the moment I added a Firefox add-on "Tab reloader", recommended > > by Mozilla. It simply refreshes the tab every 10 seconds. Those 10 > > seconds is my choice, it could also be set much slower, like e.g. > > Once every century... :) > > > Interesting. The suggestion by Emil Axelsson to use the livereload > package in combination with the LiveReload add-on inside of the > browser might work even better for you since it would reload only > when the file changes. If I understand how it works, it watches the > file that you point it at and immediately refreshes the browser any > time that the file changes. It's in the Ubuntu repositories. I'm not > sure if you'd find it in the MXLinux repositories or not, but you can > get it from the developer on the > https://github.com/blaise-io/live-reload#readme page. I would of course have preferred LiveReload as Emil Axelsson suggested. I tried but did not succeed to get the background service running. I tend to be a little impatient, but a browser add-on should just work out of the box imo. TaB reloader is the only one recommended by Firefox, it has 71.673 users, compared to 990 for Live Reload...that's telling something too. > > I give up for now. I can live with the "Tab reloader" solution for > > the moment. Let's hope someone competent can reincarnate the Web > > helper plugin or build a new html preview for Geany. Thank you Little Girl! Bert > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
