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Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window #65351

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terryjreedy opened this issue Apr 4, 2014 · 4 comments
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Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window #65351

terryjreedy opened this issue Apr 4, 2014 · 4 comments
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3.10 only security fixes topic-IDLE type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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BPO 21152
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title = 'Idle: timed autosave for shell (and maybe editor) window'
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From bpo-21140, msg215485, Raymond Hettinger: "Students commonly save shell sessions as a record of everything they tried in call. It would nice if there were a way to trigger a periodic autosave (perhaps every five minutes or so)."

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For Shell, autoappend would do the same, and saving on each >>> rather than by time might be more appropriate.

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On idledev, Jeff Silverman requested autosave, I presume for editor windows. If one is doing closely interactive development, hitting F5 to save and run every few minutes, this would not be necessary. But if not, ... I know that autosaves in other programs (editors and games) have saved me lots of trouble more than once.

Saving every n minutes should be trivial using .after. With slightly more work, it could be every n minute the window is active (has the focus). Any untimed save should reset the timer. Since IDLE looks at every keystroke (I believe), counting keystrokes and saving every n keystrokes might be possible.

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I list below other IDLE issues containing 'autosave', so I don't have to look at each issue for relevance to this one again.

bpo-21140 22 Idle: saving an OutputWindow should default to .txt (patch)
(Has comment prompting this issue. Otherwise not relevant.)
bpo-23666 10 Add shell session logging option to IDLE
(Related to this issue, partial duplicate)
bpo-21937 6 IDLE interactive window doesn't display unsaved indicator
(Actually, *...* indicates non-empty undo buffer.)
bpo-19042 9 Idle: add option to autosave 'Untitled' edit window
(On F5, same as for titled edit window. See 1326830.)
bpo-4765 20 IDLE fails to "Delete Custom Key Set" properly (patch)
('autosave' in quoted .idlerc/config-main.cfg)
<closed>
bpo-1175686 79 add "reload" function to IDLE
(Closed as dup, 'autosave' is about F5. Not relevant.)
bpo-1326830 125 python scratchpad (IDLE)
(Rejected. 19042 is a re-opening of this.)

@terryjreedy terryjreedy added the 3.10 only security fixes label Jun 6, 2020
@ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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