Re: Digest for bbedit@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

[David Cortesi]

Rich, thanks for the prompt reply...

> >defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Filing:EnableAutoSave_v2 -bool YES
> >defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Filing:AutoSaveIntervalInMinutes_v -int 1
 
> You shouldn't mess with those unless you were specifically
> advised to.

They are documented in the help with no such comment,
just a warning that they involve the command line (scary!).
Suggest clarifying that text sometime.

> > However, it still isn't auto-saving. What's up?

> The "auto save" is really "crash recovery"; it's not that the
> "Save" command is periodically invoked, but rather that enough
> information is periodically saved that in the event of some
> external event, information can be recovered the next time you
> start the application.

Interesting. OK, what I need protection from is not a

BBEdit failure but a personal brain fart/user error.

Is there a way to make sure that the file is written to disk
every so many minutes?

[TJ Luoma]

On 23 Dec 2013, at 11:46, David Cortesi wrote:
>
>> The "auto save" is really "crash recovery"; it's not that the
>> "Save" command is periodically invoked, but rather that enough
>> information is periodically saved that in the event of some
>> external event, information can be recovered the next time you
>> start the application.
>
> Interesting. OK, what I need protection from is not a
> BBEdit failure but a personal brain fart/user error.
>
> Is there a way to make sure that the file is written to disk
> every so many minutes?

I use Keyboard Maestro to do this, not only in BBEdit but in other apps
which I trust far less (*cough-Microsoft Word-cough*) to recover well
from crashes.

You can find my Keyboard Maestro macro here, as well as instructions on
how to use it.

https://github.com/tjluoma/km-bbedit-autosave

TjL