This is nice for when the application / the system is crashing, or there is a power outage.
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I think the Addons plugin from [Geany Plugins](/geany/geany-plugins/) can do just that :)
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If I understand @CreamyCookie correctly, he is not looking for auto save function but rather wants a "hot exit" feature (and I would like that too).
Hot exit is a feature of some modern editors that preserves unsaved files on quit without prompting the user to save them before quitting. A nicer explanation can be seen here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/101#issue-117679274
I searched in every plugin I could get, but I couldn't find such feature.
The use-case seems to have two parts:
1. Saving the session status when the application is shutdown normally. Saving modified buffers in the Geany config directory and recording that in the session file should be possible if someone wants to make a pull request for it.
2. Preserving state when the application is not shutdown normally, ie crash, logout, system shutdown. In this case there is no way of saving the status after the abnormal condition has occurred, so any saving needs to happen before the abnormal incident similar to the Saveactions plugin (not Addons as @b4n posted), but not saving over the original file. That would be a reasonable enhancement to that plugin and again pull requests are welcome.
I need this. Everytime I close VSCode manually, it is prompting me to save untitled files. If I don't save it, then its not restored. I don't want to save those untitled files, I just use those as scratch notes. If I ctrl+alt+del to force exit then it works, but i prefer not to ctrl+alt+del it.
I have came here to ask for the same feature. Preserving unsaved files on exit and restore them on launch would be very useful for productivity.
Just needs "somebody" to do it.
Ok, @codebrainz and I have had an offline discussion and since it doesn't matter which issue discussion actually continues on this will continue here, but the discussion on #2717 which does (at least to me, @etkaar may disagree) seem to be heading to an implementation, is to be considered to be pasted here (sadly Github doesn't actually allow them to be combined AFAIK).
I have came here to ask for the same feature. Preserving unsaved files on exit and restore them on launch would enhance my productivity a lot.
Same here! I love this feature in Notepad++ and would really love to see it in Geany
As noted above, in #2717 its something "somebody" might add to the saveactions plugin, but since Geany is a volunteer project "somebody" has to volunteer a pull request.
+1 for this feature request. At work (on ms-windows) I use Notepadd++ which does this, and it is very useful. At home (Linux) I use either Geany or Sublime Text (which has this feature too, but is not open source). This feature really does give you a kind of peace of mind: 1. The editor do not ask you anymore what you want to do with unsaved files when you close it (either voluntarily or during a crash). 2. When working on a file saved on disk, if modified in the editor, then on reopening the modified and unsaved version is opened for the user. 3. When working on files not yet saved (an "untitled" one), they are also reopened with their content. Keeping info in an unsaved buffer might be seen as dumb. But it is very useful! I do it often for not important data, which I could build again if needed. Think for example a temporary text conversion between an export and a work in excel or calc. Or a copy paste to remove the formatting between apps. I'd like to be able to code this, unfortunately I don't have these skills, let's hope someone can do it :)
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