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Brackets extension to save your work as you type (automagically!). Perfect for file watchers

License: MIT License

JavaScript 84.46% HTML 15.54%

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brackets-autosaver's Introduction

This repo is no longer maintained and the extension may not work correctly or at all. Please fork it and pick it up where I left it for the next gen of coders. Do it!! Good luck!

brackets-autosaver

Finally!

A Brackets extension that saves your file as you type. No need to constantly press Ctrl/CMD + S. It helps you achieve a perfect workflow with file watchers (Gulp, Grunt, npm, CodeKit...). Almost 100k installs.

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How does it work?

Brackets-autosaver hooks to key presses. To avoid triggering a file save command on every-single-keypress the extension waits 400ms (or any other delay of your choosing) from the last key pulsation.

So once you're finished typing a few words or a simple correction, then it saves the document (always the one you just edited).

It also detects changes made by cuting or pasting contents.

Is it always on?

Nope. You can turn this feature on and off easily from the File menu. So just check or uncheck File -> Enable auto saving.

How to install this awesome thing?

Like any other Brackets extension. Either look for it within Brackets extension manager or download this repo and drop it on Brackets.

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brackets-autosaver's Issues

Not working on Release 2.0 , 2021

I have enabled it on File menu and tried changing the autosave config to different ms but nothing. It does not save.

Can you please help?

It doesn't work at all for me

I'm new to brackets but auto saving seems like a must have. I got many other extensions to work but this one doesn't. All I need to do is enable autsave in settings right? its set to default 400ms but nothing happens when I edit a basic file.

Search Bar closes

When you open the search bar (cmd+f) and start typing, the bar closes.

I guess you're saving when there's a keypress, but in that case you don't want to because the file isn't changing.

"CTRL + E" for change color

Hi, I really liked the "brackets-autosaver".
I found a defect, I hope you correct it.
If you nag "CTRL + E" and select a color for CSS, auto-saving does not work.

Improvement suggestion

Hi,

This extension is very welcomed. I love it.
I have a suggestion though. Coming from Notepad++, it has the auto save feature but it saves the files as temporary files in a Notepad++ folder .
This has three benefits:

The original file is only modified when you actually explicitly save the document. If you are working on the document and want to open it again to see the original content, you can do so.
If you are working on the same file with someone else, people are not constantly overwriting each others.
If you create a temporary new document, you don't have to worry about saving it.
In case of crash on new documents, they are not lost.

If you think this is valuable, would you consider adding this feature?
Thanks

Paste and undo/redo are not autosaved

If one makes a change in a document, and undoes it later, the change resulting from that will not get saved. Only if one were to maually save or type a space or something, the document is saved. As I use live preview all the time and undo changes a lot, it can be confusing as of why the change doesn't appear on the preview.

Also, when pasting a snippet of code in the editor, that is not autosaved as well. Finally, batch replacing of code doesn't autosave.

Brackets version: sprint 9 build 1.9.0-17312 (release 189f6d39a)
Extention version: 1.1.5

Installation failing in Brackets 1.9

Installation is failing on new brackets update.

Make save trigger interval configurable

Too many write operations to an SSD reduces its useful life. On a regular HDD I'm a fan of "twitch-saves" but on an SSD (and my current work machine is totally SSD) this has long-term consequences to the viability of the drive(s). By allowing me to extend the trigger time I can maximize the usefulness of the plug-in without lowering the lifespan of my drives.

Plugin version: 1.0.3