quit without save, when autosave is enabled

[marc1uk]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

I generally like to have autosave enabled in case of a crash or whatnot, but it would be nice if this feature wasn't so tied to other settings. For example, it warns you in the help that when "autosave" is set to anything other than 0, changes are saved on exit. Personally i'd prefer if that were a separate feature - autosave every X seconds, and save on exit, are two separate things.

This specific issue, though, is that when autosave is enabled, you cannot quit micro at all without saving the output. If i've opened a file, typed some stuff, then changed my mind, i'm obligated to give it a filename, write it to disk and then run rm trashfile to remove it. Seems a bit silly, really. Why not just leave the prompt?

Specifications

version 2.0.10
Commit hash: b976385
OS: linux (centos-7 / debian)
Terminal: bash

[ngustavo]

I agree. I believe there should be 'autosave.interval': 60 and 'autosave.onclose': 1 or something like that.

[dmaluka]

If you don't want to autosave periodically but want to save on exit without confirmation, you can keep autosave set to 0 but, for example, bind Ctrl-Q to Save,Quit instead of Quit.

If you want to autosave periodically but at the same time want confirmation when saving on exit, that is not currently possible. But, do you really want that?

This specific issue, though, is that when autosave is enabled, you cannot quit micro at all without saving the output. If i've opened a file, typed some stuff, then changed my mind, i'm obligated to give it a filename, write it to disk and then run rm trashfile to remove it. Seems a bit silly, really. Why not just leave the prompt?

Is this about the same issue as #3624 (which has just been fixed)?

[marc1uk]

Yes this is the same issue that was resolved in #3624, I'll go ahead and close this. Many thanks 👍