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I still remember the apologists (circa 2011) trying to justify OS X's system-wide autosave feature when it came out despite its obvious pitfall -- users could m
by curt15 3y ago
I still remember the apologists (circa 2011) trying to justify OS X's system-wide autosave feature when it came out despite its obvious pitfall -- users could make inadvertent edits to their documents without noticing. When users pointed out that Apple's own XCode didn't adopt that feature, the apologists' excuse was simply "IDEs are different".
- ace2358 3y agoWhat? Autosave also has versioning. You can always go back through the auto save history. You can also revert to the original opened file. This is done from the file menu. Also, if like a good mac user you have Time Machine configured and on, you can browse your versions further into the past. Heavy iWork user, I don’t know about Xcode though.
- curt15 3y agoDoes the version browser show a line-by-line diff? When I last used it ~10 yrs ago it displayed a fancy Time Machine-like interface that was useless for telling if I accidentally inserted a character in page 11.