On Fri, 4 Jan 2019, Graeme Geldenhuys via lazarus wrote:
On 04/01/2019 11:59, Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus wrote:
Well, to my big relief, I discovered that Atom does this.
EditPad Pro and jEdit also does that. Seems it is a more popular feature
than first expected. ;-)
From the book "About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" (not
a direct quote):
Editors and most programs shouldn't even need an explicit Save menu
option. If they auto-save everything - combined with an Undo feature
- that's all that is needed. Why bother the end-user then with an
explicit Save. Many mobile apps already implement this behaviour with
great success.
I read that too. But here I don't agree 100%.
Of course you need an explicit 'save' for an editor.
You need to give a name to your file. And what if I want to rename my file ?
Imagine every editor just auto saves under Documents with a GUID as a name.
Or you need to memorize the filesystem iNode of the document.
That would become messy :)
Michael.
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