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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by arnavsharma93 on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:19PM (#15367152)
For people using Emacs looking for autosave.

(add-hook 'focus-out-hook (lambda () (save-some-buffers t)))

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Re:Textadept – A fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-plat... by gkya on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:30PM (#15367805)
This is not autosave, this saves open buffers, and may cause saving changes you may have wanted to discard. With non version controlled files this may cause data loss/corruption. See "Auto Save" in emacs manual instead.
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