A little problem I have with this idea is that it takes several minutes to save my file. With > 16K transactions, there is just too much data to grind out. I need to get my data into a database, I think. Of course I'm just using a 1.8 GHz P6. It would help if I had a modern computer.
Bill Wohler wrote: > Beth Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: >> >>> Once you install r16627 or higher (which will become 2.1.5), auto-save will >>> be >>> activated every 3 minutes by default (counting from the first change of >>> your >>> data, i.e. when the "*" appears in the title bar). The very first time this >>> feature is run you will be shown an explanatory dialog that tells you where >>> you can change the time interval or switch off this feature. That dialog >>> won't be shown again. >>> > > Hi Christian, > > Emacs auto-saves every n seconds or m keystrokes. In addition to > auto-saving every 180 seconds, I'd also suggest auto-saving every 10 > new or updated entries or so. That, too, should be configurable. > > Emacs and other programs I've seen auto-save into a separate file. I'd > strongly suggest, and it would be greatly appreciated by the user > community, that the hard work be done to make it so. You will end up > surprising a lot of folks (not in a good way) by auto-saving over the > original file. > > Thanks for adding this feature, by the way. It is an excellent one. > I've wished I had it in the past ;-). > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
