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Originally Posted by Keroberos
Seems like it would be rather difficult to create an autosave feature without removing the requirement that the epub be well formed before saving, it would be annoying to have Sigil constantly throw up error messages about being malformed. The only way around that would be to use some form of temporary file that changes are written to incrementally and can be used to restore after a crash (not that it crashes very often in my experience). I don't need an autosave feature since I already have one (hitting "ctrl+s" every so often, especially before a major find/replace or splitting a large xhtml file).
Saving my work is part of my work, I would no more trust an autosave routine than I do any other automated process (not at all).
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@Keroberos:
Thanks, that's what I was trying to say, not nearly as clearly as you did. ;-)
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
As unreasonable as JimLL is, he is pointing out something that needs fixing. Trying to save a file that is html should give you a message: Sigil does not save HTML. Would you like your document saved as an EPUB?
And if the answer is yes, save it as an EPUB
It has been a long time since I went through this, but I remember how puzzling it was.
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Actually, @mrmikel: assuming arguendo that somebody was writing autosave routines 20 years ago, why wouldn't s/he do what I did--and simply click "save as" and see what the available options (for type) were/are? When I was befuddled by this originally, I simply looked at "save as" and noodled out that the ONLY option was ePUB. Now, I'm no programmer (just ask my Crews--they'll be happy to tell you horror stories about my javascript!), but it was pretty obvious to me that Sigil had a single option. I can easily see that utter noobs, coming from, let's say, Word or Jutoh or what-have-you, might get boggled, but any pro or semi-pro or geekster should be able to see that it's just not intended to be an html editor. That's all I'm sayin'. Would it kill user_none to add that as a prompt? Probably not, but I don't think I remember seeing another post in the last few years quite this vexed over no "save as html," although I probably wouldn't have filed it away even if I had. Doesn't
everyone save their work every 10-20 minutes? Hell, I do, particularly in Sigil--when I started out, I used to incur the PSOD (Pink Screen O'Death) so often I thought I was walking for Breast Cancer on a daily basis.
Hitch