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

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- versions: +Python 3.10 -Python 3.5, Python 3.6 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing lis

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

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 rele

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

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 (

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

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. -- ___ Python tracker ___ __

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

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)." -- components: ID