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jlebon / textern

A Firefox add-on for editing text in your favourite external editor!
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Need a backup option #83

Closed nickurbanik closed 1 year ago

nickurbanik commented 1 year ago

I have lost a few extensive editing sessions through losing the connection between Firefox and textern, either because I accidentally closed the editing page in Firefox or some other user error over a long editing session.

I just lost two hours of very good work. That is the final straw.

I am now going to implement a backup system on my machine here, and will attach a patch implementing that to this bug report after it is done.

nickurbanik commented 1 year ago

textern-backup.patch.gz This patch implements backups to ~/.textern. Please add this to the code base so that other people do not suffer the frustration of losing hours of precious work.

jlebon commented 1 year ago

I'm sorry that happened to you. I'm open to having an opt-in option for this. See also discussions in https://github.com/jlebon/textern/issues/6.

Can you open a PR with your patch so I can review it more easily?