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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.
Definitely a good feature to have. It would also be nice to include setting to enable/disable customize the behavior.
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
Here is part 2 of the patch (hooking it into the edit page + preferences): https://github.com/bogg/orion.client/commit/9d298b3159eefc87c8cbe1517275957da417e17e
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
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).
