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I always use NotePad++ to save a temp copy of the post I'm working on, in case I lose my mobile (and slightly unreliable) connection. Then, if I need to, I can always just copy and paste back to the post. As long as I step back as soon as I hit Ctrl+V, because my copied text to NP++ is now full of "pre" tags around code, which mysteriously get re-tagged, and escaped, if I don't change the "Paste as" dialogue. 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Neither the Notepad++ I'm using do not auto-save the text file. 
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Notepad++ saves your files (at least it does for me). If I create a new document using Notepad++, then close Notepad++, then turn off my computer, then take a looong vacation, then turn on my computer again and open Notepad++ my newly created, unsaved document is still there 
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Yeah. NotePad++ is great like that, and it even still does basics like prompt on closing.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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1995: people used to pressing Ctrl-S every five minutes.
2005: people used to pressing Ctrl-Shift-S every five minutes (say, hello MDI)
2010: people getting used to pressing Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C every five minutes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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2015: people are to dumbed down to remember any of those shortcuts and lose over an hour of work.
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Sander Rossel wrote: 2015: some people are to dumbed down to remember any of those shortcuts and lose over an hour of work.
FTFY! 
I don't mind losing an hours work (well, I do, but you know what I mean) - that's why I have hourly incremental backups going on in the background, and autosave turned on in everything I can...
And it could be worse: I used to love AmiPro as a word processor, but it's autosave was buggy, and would often crash the app when autosaving and make sure you lost everything automatically... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: but it's autosave was buggy, and would often crash the app when autosaving and make sure you lost everything automatically
That wasn't a bug, it's a feature! 
When coding I don't mind losing a bit of work. You'll just do it again except this time you know what to do and it might be prettier now that you know up front (although I once lost a good day of work, that was a bit much...). But writing for a blog (or anything else), that's just a drag!
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Sorry for your loss.  Losing an hours work really sucks.
It reminded me of working in VS6 on Windows ME. (when I got my first laptop after school) The system was liable to crash at any time. After losing a few hours of work in the first month, I promptly bought Win2K and things were good...so good that I skipped XP altogether! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Gives you an opportunity to think over and write it again.
Something like the second edition of something; will always be better than what was lost.
As others say, use Notepad++
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Well I just finished it and it came out okay I guess. If at first you don't succeed...
Just need to read it a final time and then I can publish
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I press 'Save' every few minutes...Windows 3.1 taught me that
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DaveX86 wrote: Windows 3.1
I'm too young for that. We had a sort of left over 3.1 at (elementary) school, but my first home computer was a Windows 95
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Ah well, your training is not complete until you've had a Windows 3.1 box crashing on you every 30 minutes or so...that's where the whole idea of 'Auto-Save' came from
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Before the Internet, there was the text editor.
One of those things has always lived up to its claims.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Notepad doesn't have auto-save either 
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Notepad doesn't need auto-save.
The risk of your losing your connection to a text editor that is installed on the machine you are working on is pretty small.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well, all of those nice arguments are pretty much nullified by the presence of haggis! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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Aye - 'tis a grand site to see Wild Hagi migrating roond the mountains in two separate flocks.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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When I was a child, around 5-6, I went with my mother to Scotland to visit a Scottish friend of hers. He tried to convince me that haggis came from sheep that lived high up on the mountains. And because they always walked around the mountain in the same direction, the front and back legs on one side were longer than on the other side.
Surely, he didn't lie to me?!?!? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Only a little[^] - they aren't related to sheep.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What's wrong with haggis? You philistine you! 
modified 14-Mar-15 9:23am.
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Everyone complains about haggis*, but no-one recognises that there are great chefs in Scotland.
I mean, where do you think stovies came from?
* But not nearly enough.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I mean, where do you think stovies came from?
I didn't know what that was, so I had to look it up, and I mean WOW, that actually looks... eh... terrible... Kind of like the lobescoves my mother used to serve me when I was a youngun... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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