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Originally Posted by BetterRed
So 'you must be right because you Google'd for it' - whilst me who has been using NPP every day of the week since 2007-ish, must be wrong 
I suspect the PI referenced was called Autosave or Autosave 2 - no idea what they do, because I don't use them. Never knew they existed until I just looked in the NPP Plugin Manager. Like some other 'widely used' software, NPP seems to be overburdened with overlapping, redundant PIs.
Right now I don't have any files open in NPP - number of snapshots in its auto-save folder - precisely ZERO. If I open a file now, and edit it progressively over the next four days, (including system shut downs each evening), then on Friday at noon, I would be be able to get back to where I was at 10pm this evening - assuming I never did a Save of the file between now and then. |
And with that explanation for why someone would
want auto-save, I
finally understand why no similar software does it.
It has nothing to do with how easy it is to code it. They're probably just too embarrassed to try saying with a straight face that that is "crash-proof data recovery".
You're stealing the bread right out of the mouths of poor SCM software.
I give this a million downvotes.
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Now,
you asked
me why I thought it was an NPP plugin. So I told you where I got the idea from. But if you seriously think that what I meant was "I must be right because I Google'd for it", then I guess I don't have anything more to say to you.