text editor with auto-save feature

[tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org (Tom Metro)]

Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> Tom Metro writes:
>> Any recommendations for a Linux GUI text editor that will automatically 
>> save unnamed buffers?
> 
> How about:
> xemacs -vanilla /tmp/unamed-file-created-on-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`

Thanks for the suggestion. This is more or less what I ended up using. A 
few wrapper scripts around Gedit, plus using its external tools 
interface to invoke the scripts from the menu.

I've documented the workarounds in this Gedit bug that requests the 
addition of a proper autosave feature for unnamed buffers:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485471

  -Tom

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