[sldev] Automatically backing up scripts locally.

[ordinal.malaprop at fastmail.fm]

It would help a lot of people certainly, particularly those who have  
not yet been burned by script loss - it was the every-version thing  
that I considered overly aggressive. Of course, it's not that much use  
if everything is called "New Script". Perhaps a timestamp as well, to  
the nearest X minutes definable via preferences.

On 20 Dec 2007, at 18:51, Argent Stonecutter wrote:

> On 2007-12-20, at 12:18, ordinal.malaprop at fastmail.fm wrote:
>> Really, scripts and notecards are the easiest thing to maintain  
>> versions of anyway. I really don't think there's a huge call for an  
>> aggressive automatic backup system - or, well, it's not something  
>> for consideration in a main client.
>
> One that just saves the file you're editing to disk when you hit  
> save, without versioning, by script or notecard name, in a single  
> directory... that would be a huge win. I don't see that as being  
> "aggressive". I see that as being "the minimum expected effort".
>
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