Marco Arment

And if you're working in a web app, you're dealing with a directory tree full of files.

And so...

In TextMate, if you don't hit Command-S, your data is not saved.

And so when you go back to the browser and hit refresh or rerun the script or whatever, you will not have whatever is unsaved being run in your test.

So I just developed the habit of whenever I go to run whatever I've written, I hit Command-S first.

So I am a little bit more loosey-goosey about it in Xcode.

For instance, if I do a find and replace across multiple files in Xcode, I will do that find and replace, and then I'll just hit run.

I won't think, are all those files saved?

think it's just the current one but but because it's not connected to anything like the elevator door close button and you two were just hitting command s to make yourself happy well like but it doesn't it doesn't like if you if you hit command s and notes it'll beep at you to kind of yell at you like don't don't save me what are you doing i feel like xcode should do that

I mean, I would probably stop doing it eventually.

I don't do it that often in Notes.

But yeah, it's that same carried over habit.

Because the thing with Notes, again, Notes makes more sense not to do that because there is no explicit save action that the app is doing on your behalf to a file.

Whereas Xcode, it is still working on individual files.

And until you hit Command-S or build and run the app...

Those files are not saved.

i'm not 100 sure but i am like all right i can i just tested it because you can tell like whether it shows up in your git diff um and yeah if you just type some code if you just type something and alt tab away sorry command tab away um and you know look at like it won't oh wait a minute oh my god now it's there i'm gonna take it it's auto saves every two seconds doesn't it

Gracious.

Oh, my God.

Maybe... This is the year of efficiency.