[TxMt] Atomic Saving / Saving Question

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On 1. feb 2005, at 5:26, Paul Kline wrote:

> What is atomic saving?

Atomic saving makes sure that the old version of the file on disk is 
replaced with the new one in on, atomic, operation. This is sometimes 
needed when the files you are writing might at the same time be read by 
other running programs. Technically it's writing the file with another 
name, then renaming the new file into the old file (destroying the old 
file in the process).

The disadvantage of atomic saves (for some), is that the file gets a 
new inode-number each time which will break hard-links and might upset 
aliases if they are not pointing correctly.

> How can I tell TextMate to save as soon as it loses focus?

I don't think you can do that, currently.

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