How to Enable Auto Save on Sublime Text 2

Alex Chaffee

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Jan 21, 2013, 6:22:16 PM1/21/13

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http://blog.thekindof.me/2012/08/13/enable-auto-save-on-sublime-text-2/

Sublime Text2 -> Preferences -> Settings - Default

Then set:

"save_on_focus_lost": true,

This may prevent some of those garbled checkins when you edit and then
forget to save a file before doing a git pull.

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Theo Wilson

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Jan 22, 2013, 2:49:26 PM1/22/13

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Good find! Though I'm more worried about files being autosaved when I switch to a branch where they didn't previously exist (or had been deleted) and having them suddenly pop up in the commit.

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Alex Chaffee

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Jan 22, 2013, 4:31:40 PM1/22/13

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Theo Wilson <th...@groupiter.com> wrote:

Good find! Though I'm more worried about files being autosaved when I switch to a branch where they didn't previously exist (or had been deleted) and having them suddenly pop up in the commit.

I don't think that's a risk (unless you somehow switch branches from within Sublime). Every time you switch to Terminal (before doing "git checkout") your files will be saved into the old branch, and then git will take it from there.

Then the question is, if files change (or get deleted) on disk, will Sublime be smart enough to update its buffers once it gets focus again?

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