[TxMt] feature request: autosave

[Lang Riley]

I agree with Jon on the autosave thing.  Your text editor is not the 
place to do versioning.  The correct tool for versioning is CVS or even 
better, SVN.  If there are issues that cause TM to not play well with 
those repositories, then that should be the focus of dev IMHO.


On Jan 14, 2005, at 8:02 AM, Jon Raphaelson wrote:

>> But the *functionality* I'd like is an action so each time I save a
>> file the previous version gets put in a designated backup folder with
>> a datestamp, e.g. "index.php.20050114_2015" or the like. Really
>> whatever's easiest!
>
> It seems to me, that this isn't really autosave, it's more of an
> automated versioning. I know it seems like sort of a semantic argument,
> but an actual autosave feature, where you can set it to save to a temp
> file every 5 minutes or something, would be really really nice. I know
> it has saved my butt in programs like Word a couple of times (granted
> it was because the PC I was on crashed before I had saved; who worries
> about that with TM? ;) and I personally would love to have that
> feature.
>
> PS. And I don't think this is really something controllable with a
> command, since it needs to be invoked without you. Actually, that would
> be really cool too - have a way to invoke commands on time intervals -
> so say, update cvs every 10 minutes, or save every 5 minutes, or
> whatever you wish, whenever you wish. Just a thought. Something like
> this would remove the necessity of autosave, and give a whole bunch of
> other functionality at the same time.
>
> - Jon
>
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