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Originally Posted by JimLL
I haven't read this whole board, because I'm a slow reader and a quick forgetter.
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That is almost saying it all. You don't really explain why you think it is an easy fix or why it actually should do that. You complain about a feature which is not implemented easy and you ignore everyone that is explaining why. You seem 'bound and determined' to prove a point which is not there.
Various people have explained several times that the reason is that Sigil is an ePUB editor, not an HTML editor. To make it more easy for its users, Sigil allows import of HTML. After the import, the HTML is essentially gone. It is part of the ePUB. And, don't forget, since usually an ePUB contains several XHTML files, which one to autosave?
Autosave of the ePUB is very hard to do, since Sigil only allows structurally correct ePUB's. Due to the fact that ePUB is very flexible, it is very easy being temporary in a state where the ePUB is not structurally correct because you are working on the file. I think it is one of the strong points that Sigil only allows to save structurally correct ePUB's and I would definitively not have it sacrificed for an autosave.
That being said, the other point you mention is about layout and copy/paste. Copy/paste from one program to the bookview of Sigil can be cumbersome. The results may not be what you want. I don't know why, but I assume there are several reasons for that. I use (x)HTML as input.
If you change text to headers or back to text in bookview will cause Sigil to use the defined stylesheet for the layout. If you have not assigned a stylesheet, the default HTML style is applied for headers and so on. Those are the same as in browsers. If you want to change the layout, change it in a stylesheet and apply that stylesheet. As far as I know, that can only be done in Codeview.