Question

A feature of most text & document editors is some kind of indicator that the current edit session has unsaved changes: an icon in the status bar, an asterisk in the title bar, or (worst case), "Do you want to save changes?" upon exit.

In today's multi-tasking (and therefore error-prone) world, I'm finding that to be an essential feature. Sure, I can "save & continue" (just in case) before continuing to use a (perhaps?) abandoned editor session. While that wouldn't take a significant interval in a client-side application, a web-based editor's "save & continue" can take long enough to interrupt a train of thought, which is especially galling since it MIGHT be superfluous ... (sorry, I have to take this call -- Oh! But now my Blackberry has an 'important' alert...).

Among the many editors and plugins TWiki has to offer, is there anything that addresses this? It wouldn't need AJAX, javascript's "onChange" should suffice.

(or maybe I just need a vacation).

Environment

-- SeanCMorgan - 17 Oct 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

The WYSIWYG editor already asks if you want to navigate away. There is no support for this on the text editor, though (you can always add a feature request)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 20 Oct 2008