[Pmwiki-users] Autosave on Preview

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:04:29AM -0700, Steven Leite wrote:
> 
> Instead, a auto/temporary save in the background would occur when the
> preview button is pressed.  The temporary page could be stored in
> pmwiki/tmp.   [...]
> The key here is action=editpreview, which instructs PmWiki to edit the
> temporary page instead of the current page.
> Eventually, clicking the SAVE button would make the change permanent,
> and remove the temporary version from the pmwiki/temp folder.

What happens if two people are editing the page?  Does it become a hassle
to have to worry about action=edit vs. action=editpreview?  If there are
multiple people creating stored previews of a page, do they all share the
same stored preview?  Note that storing temporary edits in this way would
mean that such edits are not part of the page history, and thus would not
have a restore capability or the ability to handle simultaneous edits.

I have more comments on this topic but will write them in a later,
broader message.

Pm