Little Girl:
Ah, then you'd have to get around that by copying it to another file, letting that one save, and leave the unchanged original intact.
Yes. It's the same plugin. From this point of view Geany is extremely well organized. Although the first day I had a problem with double closing brackets as the bracket closing extension does not disable the geany preferences.
By the way, auto-save is dangerous unless you keep incremental copies of each one.
Certainly. And also dangerous is to rely on the user to remember to save often.
There was no way to retrieve the data. I rewrote what I could remember of it, but I could feel that it wasn't as good the second time around.
Which makes for a cleaner rewrite as the story is already clearer in the mind. Which would make sense to disable the auto save. It can also be a waste of time.
If I wanted auto-save [...] I'd write a script to capture each auto-save the instant the program spits it out and rename it with the date and time (to the second) and do manual clean-up afterwards.
Geany has it all in the same extension. Save actions.