Comments on Why it’s easier to recover unsaved documents in Kate than GEdit

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Geegeek

Lots of editors do this for ages... there seems to be an option to autosave documents in gedit for long, maybe it should be enabled by default though...

Daniel Aleksandersen

Auto-save isn’t quite the same. It’s more similar to how saving works in Apple TextEdit. TextEdit is paired with file versioning, so you can restore previous versions.

GEdit’s auto-save can cause dataloss: say you make an edit, don’t save your work, quit GEdit, and then later regret the edit. You can’t restore the original.

Kate doesn’t every auto-save or overwrite your originals. It just keeps a copy of your working copy on disk in case it quits unexpectedly before you have decided whether to save or discard the changes.

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