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.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Wilson</b> <<a href="mailto:dausha@gmail.com">dausha@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Okay, after having sent that last email, a bit of a feature request<br>came to me that I wanted to ask the group about. As you can tell from<br>my email address, I use Gmail to handle my various discussion groups.<br>If only I had a client on my computer that handled email this way
<br>(that wasn't hooked to Google's marketing).<br><br>One thing that has caused me grief in the past using PmWiki is losing<br>my edits when I hit the wrong button, or the browser crashes. In the<br>past, I tried using PmWiki to author notes for class, but after losing
<br>a few hours of class notes to browser issues, I have resorted to<br>authoring in vim, then posting to my wiki. (Of course, I also am<br>accustomed to vim's edit/author behavior from my days as a programmer.<br>It freaks mundanes out.)
<br><br>I don't worry about losing drafts with Gmail, because it has the<br>autosave of the draft. I'm assuming it uses a javascript and stores<br>the draft on the server. I'm wondering if PmWiki should offer the same<br>
feature (as a recipe or in the core)?<br><br>That is, every minute or so it writes to wiki.d/drafts and when the<br>post is made erases the draft. To allow for simultaneous edits, the<br>draft might be taged with the time the editor started working on it,
<br>his Author name, or his IP. Drafts would be seperately listed via a<br>pagelist on an admin/editor page, perhaps. So, if an author loses his<br>work, at least he can retrieve it.<br>--<br>Ben Wilson<br>" Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur"
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