Timed auto-save?

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From: David Fox
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 19:53

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I would like the option of having my files auto-saved after a certain
period of time as well as after a certain number of keystrokes.  I say
this because I was editing a file verrrry slowly, and I lost about
299 characters when I knocked my modem, but they were very carefully
chosen characters and I can't bear to try to re-create them.

Wordperfect (at least on the Amiga) does this, but it doesn't autosave
after a certain number of keystrokes, and it doesn't look at whether
the file has been modified since the last save.

David Fox
fox@cs.columbia.edu

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From: fox@cs.cs.columbia.edu (David Fox)
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Subject: Timed auto-save?
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Date: 27 Apr 89 19:53:47 GMT
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