[Github-comments] [geany] Deleting file outside of Geany when Autosave is enabled (#673)

[elextr]

> I know nothing about "AutoSave" plugin. 

"Autosave plugin" was just shorthand for "Autosave function of the Save Actions plugin", sorry for the confusion.

I am looking at it from the users point of view, but its a user with a different use-case to yours.  That user has asked for autosave so they don't lose their latest changes because they are testing software that might crash Geany or the system.  If the file is removed due to some external agency the user still wants the changes saved in case they crash.  The file removal may not have been a direct removal by the user, it could have been a side effect of a Version Control checkout, a rename, a build, or for a remote file a glitch in the network, or it might be a result of the some bug.  Whatever the case, this user *wants their changes safe*.  That means autosave should try to save the file every n seconds.

Agreed the extra questions are annoying (I managed to hit a timing that caused a sequence of five dialogs/infobars :) but it needs something more sophisticated than simply telling the autosave to stop saving.  An annoyance does not trump the safety use-case.

What is needed is for autosave to keep an exclusion list of files/directories it won't try to autosave so it won't simply ask again every n seconds.  So I have changed this to an enhancement request.  Contributions are welcome.

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