ENH - Consider auto refresh option about todotxtmac HOT 7 CLOSED

Finally!

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I will look into developing this feature. It is one I would like to have.

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Would this be the appropriate issue to register interest for an auto-save feature, or should I open a new issue? What I want is for TodoTxtMac to autosave when the window loses focus, or if that isn't achievable, trigger a save event every half minute or so.

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@jrhorn424 Are you experiencing any data loss? The todo file should autosave within seconds of changes. TodoTxtMac does atomic saves rather than directly overwriting the file each time it autosaves (which is safer). Still, it should be pretty good about saving the file without any user settings necessary.

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I've noticed a couple of times that the doc on my mac gets out of sync with what is on dropbox on my phone. I've got my todo.txt files living inside my nvAlt notes folder (in dropbox), so there may be some sort of conflict there.

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I can't reproduce today. I do notice that nvAlt alerts me that the todo.txt~ gets removed from disk. I may have been working fast and hit cancel on the prompt to remove it from disk. Should I let that file hang around or delete it as nvAlt is indicating?

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Here's something interesting I noticed today. If you open your todo.txt file in TodoTxtMac and in TextEdit simultaneously, the todo.txt file is automatically refreshed in each app when changes are made in the other. Therefore, in some small way, TodoTxtMac already has auto-refresh enabled. The problem is, it just works with TextEdit!

I don't normally use TextEdit, so I never noticed this. Changes made in apps such as Sublime Text, or by file sync services such as Dropbox, do not automatically cause TodoTxtMac to refresh the file. Non-Apple text editors likely don't use the NSDocument model, like TextEdit and TodoTxtMac do, and therefore would require me to implement something to make auto-refresh work.

I'd like to get this working, but it is tough to get right.

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