autosave

[Matthew Woehlke]

Kris Wong wrote:
>> Aside from the fact that there might be a reason I didn't save a file 
>> (and automatically calling "save" potentially causes me to lose the 
>> ability to go back to the on-disk version...
> 
> Keep in mind this would be off by default.  The user would have to
> explicitly enable it.

True, but this still leaves the problem that if you might run into the 
above, you can't use auto-save at all. :-(

>> IMO the "right" way to do this is have something like a backup suffix 
>> used for auto-save. This is how most implementations of auto-save (at 
>> least, that I can think of offhand) work.
> 
> I agree, but this would be a much more significant change, and probably
> not appropriate for 3.4.x.  IMO, kdev4 should offer this implementation
> no matter what is decided for 3.4.x.

*especially* for KDE4 we should Do The Right Thing and put this in KATE.

-- 
Matthew
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