Re: Auto Save

[Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx>]

In article <e02c82ae58.harriet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Harriet Bazley
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11 Sep 2020 as I do recall, Dave  wrote:

> [snip]


> > Personally I think it is a mess and will be getting out my barge pole
> > immediately...  :-(
> > 
> It's designed to be invisible to the user - you only ever see autosaved
> files if StrongED and/or the entire computer crashes.

... or if the user clicks "Remember" when quitting StrongED.

> Admittedly the feature is different from the 'Auto save every x
> minutes' option provided by the likes of Impression, which will
> overwrite the file on disc with or without confirmation from the user,
> so perhaps 'Auto save' is not the best name for it....

I was thinking that. It's a form of files-in-memory-backup really, rather
than autosave but only the germans would have word for it.  ;-)

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