Re: [platform-ui-dev] M2 is next week and some experiences with Android

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>. I personally disliked auto-save too, but must say that now that OS X "force-feed" autosave in most of its applications I started to enjoy it. One just don't realise it >since it "just works".

I fall in the same camp. Originally, I disliked auto-save, until I
realized that I anyhow press CTRL+S all the time without thinking
about it. And I rely on CTRL+Z to undo everything, if I made an error.





On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen
<manderse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10 Sep 2015, at 22:36, Mickael Istria wrote:
>
>>  dislike the auto-save so much! However, I can understand some people like
>> it, but we really need to consider that it doesn't fit all users.
>
>
> Intellji save on focus lost, which actually works pretty nice.
>
> Eclipse already has auto-save on build - which is also nice; but saves less
> often.
>
>> IMO auto-save is in Intellij and family because the IDE isnt't able to
>> provide good validation on "dirty" documents, mainly because it relies on
>> external tools. Eclipse with it's incremental builds and so on is much
>> better on that part.
>
>
> This a dangerous logic trap to jump into.
>
> Validation by external tools is just a fraction of its usefulness.
>
> Just consider you have an application deployed to a server - if you don't
> press save, IDE won't make the changes available (both intellij and eclipse)
>
> The main reason for auto-save being available is that it just works nicer
> and most have git or IDE local history to undo any accidental save.
>
> p.s. I personally disliked auto-save too, but must say that now that OS X
> "force-feed" autosave in most of its applications I started to enjoy it. One
> just don't realise it since it "just works".
>
>
> /max
> http://about.me/maxandersen
>
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