| [platform-ui-dev] Auto-save questions |
Hi,
IIRC there was quite some discussion on adding Auto-save to Eclipse. As I am not a fan of that feature and it is disabled by default I didn't care much.
Now I heard that Auto-save should become enabled by default with oxygen. So I need to care.
Saving in Eclipse typically triggers several actions, start compiling and execute configured save actions. I suppose that still happens with Auto-save, correct? AFAIK IntelliJ doesn't have such mechanisms.
Now regarding the use in Eclipse I have two concerns:
1. I typically configure organize imports and auto formatting (we also have that in platform). If there is Auto-save enabled, does that mean my code changes frequently while working on it? Feels strange that such things happen in between automatically without being triggered by the user.
2. In workspaces with a lot of projects this can cause serious performance issues, as compilation is triggered. I currently have such issues when working on the platform and on every save action I have to wait because the IDE freezes (Btw without errors or the freeze reporting comes up).
Maybe I don't understand the implementation in Eclipse, but for me Auto-save feels wrong when taking our actions on save into account.
Greez,
Dirk
P.S. I suppose the performance issues in my eclipse installation for platform development are related to the oomph installation or something like that. It feels inconsistent. I think I will switch back to use the manual installation again. Hopefully I can remember how to do that as that information was removed in favour of oomph. :(