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marcosdumayyesterday at 6:08 PM1 replyview on HN

If your program's auto-save works like that, it's broken.

Almost none do, though. Auto-save almost always writes to a temporary file, that is erased when you save manually.


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charcircuityesterday at 7:34 PM

Google Docs and VS Code are the first two that come to mind for autosave and they don't use a temp file.

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