[Qgis-developer] Feature: Auto saving for layers

[Martin Dobias]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think it would be very useful to have autosave - however, the one
> drawback one will have is that you loose the ability to undo changes.
>
> This is not primarily an autosave issue but an issue with "save" in
> general. As a use it is very annoying that the undo queue is emptied
> through a save. And other software (like OpenOffice, Inkscape, Gimp)
> works differently - it still offers undo
>
> Are there any major difficult problems to solve to allow an undo/redo
> queue across multiple saves?

I am not aware of any difficult problems preventing that - technically
we just need an option _not_ to clean the undo stack (and not to exit
the editing mode) when committing changes.

Martin