hey, I have a weird problem. I'm using spacemacs and when I'm saving a file, it doesn't save sometimes

I've lost some progress today and I'm pretty sure I exited by doing :wq

That sounds lame. Can you figure out how to reproduce the problem consistently?

it's pretty inconsistent, that's why I'm puzzled

oh, auto-save doesn't work at all

:thinking_face:

steps to reproduce: modify a file be idle for 30 secs so "auto saving.. done" appears kill emacs the file is unchanged

okay, so: another file is created, named #foo. and then, when I open emacs, it says for a fraction of a second: "a modified version of foo exists, hit something to recover" how am I supposed to be quick enough to notice the text and hit this key combination 😕

Yeah, auto-saving doesn't occur to the actual file, but to a backup.

You can view the *Messages* buffer to see old messages, including that one.

well, is there a way to auto-save to the actual file?

Almost certainly, if you're willing to dig into the world of elisp. But I don't know a simple way. Personally, I've just gotten good at hitting SPC f s (in Spacemacs).

alright, thanks anyway 😞

@mailmeupinside I remember @bozhidar wrote a package couple of years ago that saves a file when the buffer loses focus

Yeah, I did.

https://github.com/bbatsov/super-save

see, all the problems that you have either already were solved by @bozhidar or he simply never had time to work on it. Or the problem of yours is imaginary and does not require a solution

thanks @ag @bozhidar!

or should I post it on #cider

well wait I can't post images apparently

and I can't edit that message.. https://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/images/tracing.png