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The autosave plugin often prevents me from going back through un-do.
Un-do works again in these files as soon as I disable the plugin.

With this plugin changes are saved are temporary files. It would be nice to have an option to actually write the original files every n secs.

the backup filename is strange, / in the path is += , but that's OK.

however can we timestamp the files, e.g. myfile.backup.20200620104059, i.e. suffix each backup with a timestamp, so this will be more robust, I sometimes want to have a history archive of backup files, not just the very last one.

even better let me set up how many backup files I want to keep, say 20 of them, so it won't fill up the disk over time. even better the plugin can create a default backup directory(e.g. $HOME/.vim/backup).

thanks for this great plugin.

I have let g:auto_save = 1 in my vimrc. autosave is enabled when I start the editor. If I :DisableAutoSave the plugin is disabled as shown by :AutoSave.

If I :EnableAutoSave and :AutoSave the plugin still shows as disabled.

Here is a screencast if it helps. You will have to full-screen the player by clicking the expansion button in the bottom right of the screen. Otherwise the command bar will be truncated.

when i tried to set
:let g:autosave_timer= 3000
then I typed:
:AutoSave
to get information from vim-autosave,it shows me:
No AutoSave Timer active,can you help me?
Thx.

The plugin keep on prompting info message eg (blue)

How to disable it? The annoying thing is: if vim is in insert mode, it will exit the insert mode.

Thanks

Set an upper limit for backup file size.
Add a new option. let g:autosave_backup_max_filesize
When during backup, only backup file when the file size is smaller than autosave_backup_max_filesize.

Please correct me if I am wrong. Currently, if I open a 1GB file, make minor edit, it will be backup too, which is not necessary.

Thanks in advance.

just update the plugin and after vim sit idle for a while I saw:

Error detected while processing function Autosave_DoSave[18]..<SNR>124_SaveBuffer:
line 32:
E690: Missing "in" after :for

Observed:
I manually create C:\Users\user_name\.vim\backup. And start gvim.
However, C:\Users\user_name.vim\backup is always an empty dir.

Expected:
C:\Users\user_name.vim\backup should have backup files.

.vimrc:

" ----------------------------------------------
" vundle
set nocompatible " be iMproved, required
filetype off " required

" set the runtime path to include Vundle and initialize
set rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
call vundle#begin()
" alternatively, pass a path where Vundle should install plugins
" let Vundle manage Vundle, required
Plugin 'VundleVim/Vundle.vim'

Plugin 'chrisbra/vim-autosave'

" All of your Plugins must be added before the following line
call vundle#end() " required
filetype plugin indent on " required
" To ignore plugin indent changes, instead use:-----
" ----------------------------------------------

let g:autosave_timer = 10*1000

Gvim version: 8.2.416

Thanks.

Hello,

This plugin looks very useful, thanks!

How can I enable autosave for a particular file, please? Is there a way to do that in .vimrc?

Best,
Aleksey