Hey there,
Bert Vercauteren via Users wrote:
Op dinsdag 26 juli 2022 om 20:57 schreef Little Girl:
Oh. I just saw this. I hadn't realized that automatic saving was even possible, but then again, I'd be afraid of it.
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.
I've experienced the negative side of auto-saving for myself, so I can identify with anyone who has also ironically lost data by saving data.
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.
That sounds bullet-proof to me. In fact, I've never heard of any program offering such solid protection.
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.
True, although I wouldn't even mind doing it manually. It's the preservation of precious data that would be most important to me and it sounds like that would be a way to achieve it. Perhaps I'll give this auto-save thing a whirl in combination with my manual saves in the next round of NaNoWriMo this coming November.
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.
That's true, except that it's not just a browser extension, so there's more to it. This video demonstrates its use (with Chrome, but it would work with Firefox the same way) if you want to give it another try:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUY06rWklXU
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.
That's definitely something to take into consideration, but it's not necessarily an equal comparison since they each have a different purpose. One only does incremental refreshes at specific intervals while the other only does refreshes whenever the source file(s) change.