<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=617017" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/eht16">@eht16</a> you need faster reactions to send the popup away before it times out again, or a longer timeout :)</p>
<p>Seriously though there should be a way of telling autosave which buffers to save (or rather which not to save, having the default to be save).</p>
<p>Readonly files, intentionally deleted files (see <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load issue title" data-id="109569295" data-permission-text="Issue title is private" data-url="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/673" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/geany/geany/issues/673/hovercard" href="https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/673">#673</a>) etc, there are many times when autosave will try to save when it can't or shouldn't.  The user really should have the option to say not to save the buffer.</p>

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