Auto save for .txt files

[Parshwa Murdia]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Despite auto-save features being in many programs, I tend to avoid it.
> After many years of computing, I'm used to hitting a "save" hotkey every
> few minutes, to keep what I've done safe.


I also do the same, I just click Ctrl+S. But my query generating
seeing the analogy in 'gmail compose message' option.

> It also gives me a good undo,
> if I've messed up.  Auto-saving loses that advantage, it's saved your
> mistakes (if you've made any), without an easy to way to undo them.
> Anything from cat on keyboard, to trying a re-write of your document,
> then deciding you preferred the prior version.


Yes, that is dis-advantage with auto save.
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Regards,
Parshwa Murdia