Version: (using KDE KDE 3.3.2) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux It would be nice if Kate saved its' buffers periodically like OpenOffice.org, for example, does. Then, when it was restarted after a crash and it detected that a snapshot file existed, it would ask if the user wants to resume from the last saved state. Please note that this is *not* the same thing as backuping a file before overwriting it -- autosave has indeed been requested before, but it has been dismissed as a duplicate of the now implemented overwrite-backup.
As some time ago it happened to me that I lost much data because of a crash I think this is a valid wish ;)
This would be especially useful for files that haven't been saved yet.
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I would like to add my 2 cents by stressing the design of this feature. Commonly it is referred as autosave or autobackup. The first name is a bit misleading, editor should not automatically "save" the date, but just make a backup (automatically). So it there is a file: a.txt and I would edit it in Kate (autobackup set), Kate should create periodically backups a.txt.backup (just an example) but a.txt should remain intact until the user explicitly hit "save". Sorry it this was obvious from the beginning but I thought I better comment this then post a wish "please change the behaviour..." :-))
I have, several times in the last several weeks, had my computer crash/shut-down while i was working. The last few were due to the power switch being hit by a chair, the cat lying down on my keyboard, and a system error causing shutdown. Each time i was able to restart firefox with the session automatically restored, restart thunderbird where i left off, but several days worth of unsaved notes in kate were lost. This is not tolerable.
I agree, no autosave option in Kate is terribly annoying... The same happened to me today when my laptop crashed (turned off suddenly), as I suppose because of overheating... I has been working on my document for 4 hours before and all that is gone. Please, do something about autosave!
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Is this fixed in 4.6 by dianat's work?
I don't use kate but its little brother kwrite. Kwrite also needs that autosave feature. Does it automatically profit from an autosave feature implemented in kate?
fixed for KDE 4.6 indeed, thanks for the heads up. @ Janet: Every user of Katepart (e.g. Kile, KDevelop, Kwrite, Kate, ...) will have this feature.