Auto-Save

[hoijui]

where (code)

https://github.com/hoijui/l3afpad/tree/autosave
(will probably never be merged into master, to keep master clean and lean)

what

l3afpad with auto-save functionality.

how

If activated (Options -> Auto Save), saves the current buffers content to a separate, temporary file.
This happens 10 seconds after the last change, or immediately after 150 changes.

Unnamed buffers are stored to "~/.cache/l3afpad/buffers/.txt"

Named buffers are stored to either
"~/.cache/l3afpad/buffers/"
or
"/.",
depending on the Options -> Auto Save Same Dir config value.

The temporary file is deleted once the user saves to a proper, primary file.

why

I usually have many l3afpad buffers open, because it is so light-weight, and i do lots of note-taking here and there. the nature of my machine is such though, that it often crashes or hangs, or fails to wakeup from suspend, and then i usually lost all my notes (except the manually saved ones).

Therefore, i hacked together this crude auto-save functionality.
It is not yet well tested, and is surely very rough around the edges, but it basically works.
Please feel free to test and comment.
I do not expect this to ever get into the master branch, but maybe someone else has use for it too.

[hoijui]

Just added a fix to auto-create the cache-dir (~/.cache/l3afpad/buffers/) if it does not yet exist.