hi again Little Girl,
------- Original Message ------- Op dinsdag 26 juli 2022 om 20:57 schreef Little Girl littlergirl@gmail.com:>
But my plan was to not having to click any button at all while writing. Saving is already auto.
Oh. I just saw this. I hadn't realized that automatic saving was even possible, but then again, I'd be afraid of it. My luck, I'd accidentally do something horrible to a file and it would obligingly help me to do the dirty deed.
It has been available in Geany for a long time as a plugin but I remember an article by the Geany Devs explaining why they did not really like it... It had a humorist sort of title, something like " Everything you never wanted to know about saving" or something like that. The auto-save interval was set to 5 minutes, if I remember correctly. I tried to make that much shorter, but had to stop at 5 seconds...anything shorter caused instability. That was before version 1.38, which I only found some weeks ago. In the new version, I can speed up the interval to 1 sec! That's close to instantaneous.
Then again, your mention of it makes me thing it might not be a bad idea to set it up as a supplement to my current method of being fanatic about manually backing up my work. After all, we humans are fallible and it's entirely possible that I might get caught up in something or be interrupted and not realize I had missed a save.
Yes, that's one of the powerful aspects of auto-saving. If you would be able to combine it with a sync service that lets you roll back to an earlier save-point in your work, it would be virtually indestructible and very reliable.
For the moment I added a Firefox add-on "Tab reloader", recommended by Mozilla. It simply refreshes the tab every 10 seconds. Those 10 seconds is my choice, it could also be set much slower, like e.g. Once every century... :)
Interesting. The suggestion by Emil Axelsson to use the livereload package in combination with the LiveReload add-on inside of the browser might work even better for you since it would reload only when the file changes. If I understand how it works, it watches the file that you point it at and immediately refreshes the browser any time that the file changes. It's in the Ubuntu repositories. I'm not sure if you'd find it in the MXLinux repositories or not, but you can get it from the developer on the https://github.com/blaise-io/live-reload#readme page.
I would of course have preferred LiveReload as Emil Axelsson suggested. I tried but did not succeed to get the background service running. I tend to be a little impatient, but a browser add-on should just work out of the box imo. TaB reloader is the only one recommended by Firefox, it has 71.673 users, compared to 990 for Live Reload...that's telling something too.
I give up for now. I can live with the "Tab reloader" solution for the moment. Let's hope someone competent can reincarnate the Web helper plugin or build a new html preview for Geany.
Thank you Little Girl! Bert
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