[wp-hackers] Automatic Saving?

Matt Mullenweg m at mullenweg.com
Sat Dec 31 23:18:40 GMT 2005


Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> If  one intends to save automatically, it is not completely separate. Text
> editors  (or,  more broadly, word processors for that matter) do not  save
> ant  changes until the user triggers it. They accumulate emergency  copies
> in  the background, so there you have a stack; if not in memory, then in a
> physical file.

I think this is an important distinction -- we're not auto-saving we're 
creating an emergency recovery avenue.

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