[issue21152] Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window

[Terry J. Reedy]

Change by Terry J. Reedy :


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[issue21152] Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

I list below other IDLE issues containing 'autosave', so I don't have to look 
at each issue for relevance to this one again.

#21140  22 Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt (patch)
   (Has comment prompting this issue.  Otherwise not relevant.)
#23666  10 Add shell session logging option to IDLE
   (Related to this issue, partial duplicate)
#21937   6 IDLE interactive window doesn't display unsaved indicator
   (Actually, *...* indicates non-empty undo buffer.)
#19042   9 Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window
   (On F5, same as for titled edit window. See 1326830.)
#4765   20 IDLE fails to "Delete Custom Key Set" properly (patch)
   ('autosave' in quoted .idlerc/config-main.cfg)

#1175686 79 add "reload" function to IDLE
(Closed as dup, 'autosave' is about F5.  Not relevant.)
#1326830 125 python scratchpad (IDLE)
 (Rejected.  19042 is a re-opening of this.)

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[issue21152] Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

On idledev, Jeff Silverman requested autosave, I presume for editor windows.  
If one is doing closely interactive development, hitting F5 to save and run 
every few minutes, this would not be necessary.  But if not, ... I know that 
autosaves in other programs (editors and games) have saved me lots of trouble 
more than once.

Saving every n minutes should be trivial using .after.  With slightly more 
work, it could be every n minute the window is active (has the focus).  Any 
untimed save should reset the timer.  Since IDLE looks at every keystroke (I 
believe), counting keystrokes and saving every n keystrokes might be possible.

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[issue21152] Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

For Shell, autoappend would do the same, and saving on each >>> rather than by 
time might be more appropriate.

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[issue21152] Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window

[Terry J. Reedy]

New submission from Terry J. Reedy:

>From #21140, msg215485, Raymond Hettinger: "Students commonly save shell 
>sessions as a record of everything they tried in call. It would nice if there 
>were a way to trigger a periodic autosave (perhaps every five minutes or so)."

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components: IDLE
messages: 215499
nosy: terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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