SagXD@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 months agoI don't believe Auto Save feature in any softwarelemm.eeimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1857arrow-down123
arrow-up1834arrow-down1imageI don't believe Auto Save feature in any softwarelemm.eeSagXD@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 months agomessage-square106fedilink
minus-squareBeanie@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·9 months agoActually vim has swap files which it saves to when you make any edit, whether you save the change or not, meaning you shouldn’t lose any work even if you kill -9 vim on unsaved work.
minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoYes, exactly. Why would anyone ever use an editor that doesn’t work like that, where unsaved work could disappear? I can’t understand that.
Actually vim has swap files which it saves to when you make any edit, whether you save the change or not, meaning you shouldn’t lose any work even if you kill -9 vim on unsaved work.
Yes, exactly. Why would anyone ever use an editor that doesn’t work like that, where unsaved work could disappear? I can’t understand that.
Oh I get you. No idea tbh.