Re: [platform-ui-dev] Auto-save questions

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Now I heard that Auto-save should become enabled by default with oxygen. So I need to care.

Where did you hear that? I'm not aware of such a discussion.

> Hopefully I can remember how to do that as that information was removed in favour of oomph. :(

If you face issues with the Oomph setup, I suggest to recreate the
information on the wiki. You should be able to see them in the wiki
history.

Best regards, Lars

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> IIRC there was quite some discussion on adding Auto-save to Eclipse. As I am
> not a fan of that feature and it is disabled by default I didn't care much.
>
> Now I heard that Auto-save should become enabled by default with oxygen. So
> I need to care.
>
> Saving in Eclipse typically triggers several actions, start compiling and
> execute configured save actions. I suppose that still happens with
> Auto-save, correct? AFAIK IntelliJ doesn't have such mechanisms.
>
> Now regarding the use in Eclipse I have two concerns:
>
> 1. I typically configure organize imports and auto formatting (we also have
> that in platform). If there is Auto-save enabled, does that mean my code
> changes frequently while working on it? Feels strange that such things
> happen in between automatically without being triggered by the user.
>
> 2. In workspaces with a lot of projects this can cause serious performance
> issues, as compilation is triggered. I currently have such issues when
> working on the platform and on every save action I have to wait because the
> IDE freezes (Btw without errors or the freeze reporting comes up).
>
> Maybe I don't understand the implementation in Eclipse, but for me Auto-save
> feels wrong when taking our actions on save into account.
>
> Greez,
> Dirk
>
> P.S. I suppose the performance issues in my eclipse installation for
> platform development are related to the oomph installation or something like
> that. It feels inconsistent. I think I will switch back to use the manual
> installation again. Hopefully I can remember how to do that as that
> information was removed in favour of oomph. :(
>
>
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