[pmwiki-users] Worthwhile Feature Request?

[Tegan Dowling]

You might check the list-serv archives from November - there was a 22-post
thread "Workflow?" from 11/27 to 11/29 on this subject, which you could
revive.

On 2/4/06, Ben Wilson <dausha at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Okay, after having sent that last email, a bit of a feature request
> came to me that I wanted to ask the group about. As you can tell from
> my email address, I use Gmail to handle my various discussion groups.
> If only I had a client on my computer that handled email this way
> (that wasn't hooked to Google's marketing).
>
> One thing that has caused me grief in the past using PmWiki is losing
> my edits when I hit the wrong button, or the browser crashes. In the
> past, I tried using PmWiki to author notes for class, but after losing
> a few hours of class notes to browser issues, I have resorted to
> authoring in vim, then posting to my wiki. (Of course, I also am
> accustomed to vim's edit/author behavior from my days as a programmer.
> It freaks mundanes out.)
>
> I don't worry about losing drafts with Gmail, because it has the
> autosave of the draft. I'm assuming it uses a javascript and stores
> the draft on the server. I'm wondering if PmWiki should offer the same
> feature (as a recipe or in the core)?
>
> That is, every minute or so it writes to wiki.d/drafts and when the
> post is made erases the draft. To allow for simultaneous edits, the
> draft might be taged with the time the editor started working on it,
> his Author name, or his IP. Drafts would be seperately listed via a
> pagelist on an admin/editor page, perhaps. So, if an author loses his
> work, at least he can retrieve it.
> --
> Ben Wilson
> " Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur"
>
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