Re: philosophical question about frequent saving of files

> From [email protected] Fri Aug 26 03:04:18 2005
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:28:25 -0700
> From: Tor Norbye <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [nbui] philosophical question about frequent saving of files
> 
> I think auto-saving of files would be a lot more palatable if we have  
> automatic local file history so I can go back, even if I happen to  
> revert a file (e.g. lose undo history) or exit/restart the IDE and  
> discover that some temporary changes I had made were saved).
> 

While I'm finding that auto-save will not practically help me and
am abandoning that tack for now, the philosophical discussionis
interesting.

With this suggestion of yours tor you'd have the immediate
undo/redo, your save scheme and the VCS based save scheme.

Just more stuff to manage, terminology etc. Do
we really need more technological solutions?

In any case, isn't it the case that with SCCS/teamware (as opposed to
CVS) "experiment" gmgmt is easir because of the local repository?

Also, NB's editor undoes past file saves, but that begs the question
of when it stops (or should stop).