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Bug 369885

Summary:	Auto-save feature in editor
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenberg>
Component:	Editor	Assignee:	Bogdan Gheorghe <gheorghe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse.felipe, gheorghe, matvore, Silenio_Quarti
Version:	0.4
Target Milestone:	3.0 M2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description Andrew Eisenberg

2012-01-26 19:59:24 EST

Most modern browser-based services support some kind of auto-save feature.  For example, Google Docs, Gmail, Atlassian's jira and confluence editors, etc all auto-save after an edit.  I find this feature extremely useful.  I can't remember the last time I didn't want to save a file immediately after editing it.

I propose that the Orion editor should have this kind of feature.  After each edit, the editor waits a certain amount of time (say 3 seconds) and then auto-save s the file.  A new edit will reset the timeout.

Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich

2012-02-06 13:38:40 EST

Definitely a good feature to have. It would also be nice to include setting to enable/disable customize the behavior.

Comment 2 Bogdan Gheorghe

2013-04-12 14:14:00 EDT

Here is the patch (but we should wait for 3.0 M1 to finish before putting it out):

https://github.com/bogg/orion.client/commit/94b5335d53e424a778fd6505f1d0a21d9e12470b

Comment 3 Bogdan Gheorghe

2013-04-24 14:49:55 EDT

Here is part 2 of the patch (hooking it into the edit page + preferences):

https://github.com/bogg/orion.client/commit/9d298b3159eefc87c8cbe1517275957da417e17e

Comment 4 Silenio Quarti

2013-04-24 15:02:47 EDT

Pushed to eclipse.org

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=627cec5ce9e397710ba8da9d0167c76cd9cd658a

http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/commit/?id=c1e99152444045c2e5f172f1e578db34757af9d0

Comment 5 Bogdan Gheorghe

2013-04-25 13:44:29 EDT

Added an Editor Settings preference page that allows users to enable the auto save feature as well as specifiy what interval to use (1000ms by default).