Re: philosophical question about frequent saving of files
Jesse Glick <[email protected]>
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Ivan Soleimanipour wrote: > Is it OK for a program/IDE to automatically/frequently save edited docs? Read Alan Cooper's "About Face", Chapter 8: Lord of the Files. He makes a compelling case that it is OK. Pity that his advice seems to be as ignored now as it was when the book came out. What NetBeans *is* missing is automatic and unobtrusive backup creation, also known as "local versioning". With that in place, there's not much of a compelling argument for modified buffers as a user concept, IMO. -J. -- [email protected] x22801 netbeans.org ant.apache.org