Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > Ahh, yes, vim -r, where r stands for recovery. > I had forgotten about that. Oh. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:34 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > I think you are misunderstanding how auto save works with editors on > linux. The file you are editing is usually saved as a different file. > So if you are editing "myfile.txt"  then the older version of the file > is kept as "myfile.txt~" and

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:23:42 +0930 Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > > vim apparentlt doesn't do it: > > http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9 > > Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of > network connection

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread suvayu ali
On 22 August 2010 00:52, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > >> What editor are you using? gedit or something else? > > > When I type the following: > > ]$ gedit FILENAME.txt > > I am able to write something in the popped up file. I think you are misun

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Tim wrote: > Despite auto-save features being in many programs, I tend to avoid it. > After many years of computing, I'm used to hitting a "save" hotkey every > few minutes, to keep what I've done safe. I also do the same, I just click Ctrl+S. But my query gene

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > What editor are you using? gedit or something else? When I type the following: ]$ gedit FILENAME.txt I am able to write something in the popped up file. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To u

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:38 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > Is there any way to have auto save option for .txt files in Fedora. > Means, if we write something, in some seconds (fixed, e.g., 10 secs) > that after which it automatically saves the name.txt files while > creating any new file in Fedora.

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Saturday 21 August 2010 11:52 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > >> In gedit: >> Preferences->Editor tab check the autosave box and set your time. > > > I got it in: > > Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor -> / -> Apps ->

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Just keep in mind that a file, if open, may be in some state only a mother > could > love. You really have to be selective about saving open files, or eventually > you > will save a file which is not in a useful state. Nothing relevant t

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Tim wrote: > Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of > network connection).  When I restart vim to edit the same file, or > re-open the same file in vim, it finds the swap file it was previously > using, and offers to let me recover

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote: > vim apparentlt doesn't do it: > http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9 Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of network connection). When I restart vim to edit the same file, or re-open the

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Autosave isn't a property of files. It's a property of editors. Yes, it may be correct. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fe

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Parshwa Murdia
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: > In gedit: > Preferences->Editor tab check the autosave box and set your time. I got it in: Applications -> System Tools -> Configuration Editor -> / -> Apps -> gedit-2 -> preferences -> editor -> save And there in the left side, I che

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 23:38 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > Is there any way to have auto save option for .txt files in Fedora. > Means, if we write something, in some seconds (fixed, e.g., 10 secs) > that after which it automatically saves the name.txt files while > creating any new file in F

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Bill Davidsen
Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > Is there any way to have auto save option for .txt files in Fedora. > Means, if we write something, in some seconds (fixed, e.g., 10 secs) > that after which it automatically saves the name.txt files while > creating any new file in Fedora. Just keep in mind that a fi

Re: Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:38:05 +0530 Parshwa Murdia wrote: > hi, > Is there any way to have auto save option for .txt files in Fedora. > Means, if we write something, in some seconds (fixed, e.g., 10 secs) > that after which it automatically saves the name.txt files while > creating any new file in

Auto save for .txt files

2010-08-21 Thread Parshwa Murdia
hi, Is there any way to have auto save option for .txt files in Fedora. Means, if we write something, in some seconds (fixed, e.g., 10 secs) that after which it automatically saves the name.txt files while creating any new file in Fedora. -- Regards, Parshwa Murdia -- users mailing list users@li