Save project state periodically

[thedaniel]

The other day I had 4 panes and 2 dozen tabs open representing a particulary dumb / complicated refactor. Then my laptop hard locked. After rebooting and reopening the editor, I was presented with zero panes and zero tabs. This ruined my afternoon. We should probably save project state periodically rather than just on quit, as I only have so many laptops to throw out the window before I run out.

[victorhooi]

Yes, this feature would be great!

SublimeText saves state so that if it ever dies, it comes back exactly as it was.

This has saved me a few times - e.g. when OSX decides to lock up (damn you Apple! Shakes fist at sky!).

[OverloadUT]

Just chiming in that this would be very great! I got so used to this in Sublime that I implemented it in to my workflow - love being able to close Sublime at any time without any "save" prompts, and be able to open it back up to the same state. I would frequently leave "scratch" documents open for quick notes that I never actually saved to a file

[vauvenal5]

+1

[markwalkom]

+1 :)

[seranabede]

Would definitely like to see this feature implemented at some point, pretty much the only thing that Sublime has over Atom.

[rthangaveljv]

+1 .. Will be greatly helpful!

[ptlu]

+1 been looking for this!

[ghost]

+1 on this. It's an essential feature in Sublime that I can no longer live without.

[nitzantomer]

+1 this is an absolute must

[destri8]

+1 :D

[jgpeak]

+1 is definitely needed in Atom

[ric2b]

+1 since I just lost 5 min work on a crash, not much, but still annoying (and that's because I save periodically).
Why the auto-save package is included but disabled by default is beyond me, can someone explain the reasoning?

[dugger]

+1

[billybonks]

updating the serialised atom editor state every minute if it has changed. and caching changed files at the same time would solve this problem ?

[mlalkaka]

+1

[dapitch666]

+1

[mnquintana]

Thanks for the feedback everyone! However, all these +1s and 👍s are just adding noise, so to minimize that I'm going to lock this issue for now – we may unlock it once someone starts working on this enhancement to get further feedback.

[50Wliu]

Starting in Atom 1.7.0, Atom periodically saves editor state for crash recovery. Therefore, I believe this issue has been resolved.