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Originally Posted by eschwartz

Well, I can't really think of many programs that do autosaving.
I didn't even know Notepad++ did it -- and I see that is via a plugin.

Please name the plugin and version, I'd like to see what happens if I remove it! I thought the following had been part of the furniture since at least 2008 :-

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Saving lots and lots of timestamped autosave files would be a waste of space IMHO. You only need the last version.

Typical - I don't want it, ergo no-one should want it!

It takes some of us days to pare down a few pages of purple prose into a succinct sentence or two. Sometimes we like to get back to where we were this morning at about 10am - or where we were first thing yesterday morning.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Not sure what this is supposed to mean.
Presumably, the whole point is to save all changed components.
And saving the non-changed components is a no-op.

What difficulties do you see -- in either case?

If the entire package is saved periodically and one or more components is in a state of 'unreadiness' - ie open tags, invalid links, out of synch manifest etc, such that the resultant so-called 'EPUB' would not pass muster with epubcheck, flightcrew or any other epub validation tool, then should it be saved as an EPUB.

What happens if the user locates the 'so-called EPUB' as of 10am this morning and asks Sigil to open it - will it, despite all those structural errors and if not, what then. I have no idea - but I wouldn't put any money on it - you're free do so if you so choose.

If only the components that have changed since the last save are saved, then comes the problem of reassembling a valid EPUB as of 10 o'clock this morning.

Let me make it clear - I am NOT advocating Sigil should have an auto-save feature, far from it. But not on the grounds that I don't want it therefore nor should anyone else - I'm not so arrogant as to think I matter that much.

I am advocating it not be done because I suspect its not easily done, otherwise it would most likely already be done, in Sigil, and similar software. The fact that its not, suggests to me its not as easy as all that.

That's enough from me.

BR