how to enable auto save?

[imtheaman]

how to enable auto save?
when a file is changed, save it immediately or after some seconds of delay.

[kirawi]

This is not yet implemented, but feel free to create an issue for it.

[joegm]

Someone in the Matrix chat suggested this as a workaround, essentially saving on escape. So escaping out of insert mode saves, as does normal and select mode:

[keys.normal]
"esc" = ["collapse_selection", ":w"]

[keys.select]
"esc" = ["collapse_selection", "normal_mode", ":w"]

[keys.insert]
"esc" = ["normal_mode", ":w"]

This doesn't directly fix your issue but hopefully helps.

[7flash]

Wow love it

[kirawi]

Auto-save after delay is possible on 24.07: https://docs.helix-editor.com/editor.html#editorauto-save-section

[dessalines]

@kirawi mentioned that you can add this now:

[editor.auto-save]
after-delay.enable = true
after-delay.timeout = 3000