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> I know everyone tells you to save often. The thing is I don't - because I > don't normally *need* to. Both emacs and vi (my normal editors of choice) > quite happly cope when you suddenly kill them and have a recent copy of > the document to hand. > > Textedit, it would seem, does not. Most GUI-based software doesn't. It was written by people who grew accustomed to files being on slow slow floppies and ample RAM being available, as opposed to files being on disk and temp files being on the fast fixed-head disk and RAM being limited to tens or at most hundreds of kilowords. Microsoft Word is an exception. Which can be a curse in disguise, as my mum found out one day when she accidentally hit control-something and another couple of keys. Then she called me in a panic because the whole file had turned blue, then gone blank, then diasppeared. I'm not sure what she hit but I believe it involved "select all" and "autosave". She never got that file back.
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