Auto-Saving implemented in r16227 (to become 2.1.5) - Feedback wanted

[Ian Lewis]

I think either something as Wouter described, bury this in the settings and
give ample explanation for what it does, or disabling it completly (at least
in the stable versions) until it's really ready for normal use is needed. My
gut feeling is to do the latter. While it's useful for some it sounds like
it could have adverse and unexpected effects that outweigh it's benefits for
people if enabled.

2007/7/3, Wouter van Marle <wouter at squirrel-systems.com>:
>
> [auto-save overwrites current working file]
>
> > The main reason for me to implement this so quickly was that I
> > discovered in the current way the implementation was surprisingly easy
> > from a programmer's point of view. What I'm saying is that if the
> > feature in the current form doesn't meet user's needs, we can very
> > well disable this again... sorry for that.
>
> Auto-save sounds very useful to me as well. Maybe keep it disabled by
> default, allowing users to enable it (tick-mark in the settings
> dialogues), with strong warning about this over-writing behaviour.
> Indeed I agree with the grandparent that auto-save should not overwrite
> the current file (can't the auto-save function, when calling the save
> function, automatically add .autosave to the file name or so? I haven't
> read the source so no idea whether it is possible).
>
> Personally I don't experiment very often; and when I do I usually first
> save a copy to a different name, and play with that.
>
> Wouter.
>
> >
> > Christian
> >
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