Development Environment

Autosave Preferences for the Editor/Debugger

You can specify options for the Editor's Autosave feature.

Autosave on

The Editor automatically saves the current version of the file you are editing. Clear this check box if you do not want the Editor to automatically save the file.

Save every n minutes.   Specify how often you want the Editor to automatically save the file you are editing.

Save untitled files.   Clear this check box if you want the Editor to automatically save new files that you have not yet saved and given a name to. If selected, the first autosaved file is Untitled.asv. If the directory already contains a file named Untitled.asv, the autosaved file is named Untitled2.asv, and so on for additional unnamed files.

If autosave creates Untitled.asv and you subsequently save the file as filename.m, the next autosave version is filename.asv. Untitled.asv remains until you delete it.

Filename

Specify the extension used for autosaved files. The default setting for Windows platforms is the extension.asv (for autosave), making the autosaved file filename.asv. For Windows and UNIX platforms, you can select Replace extension with and specify any extension.

For UNIX platforms, the default is Append file with the tilde (~) character, making the autosaved file filename.m~. For Windows and UNIX platforms, you can select Append file with and specify a different string to append to the file.

Location

Specify the location for autosaved files. By default, each autosaved file is stored in the same directory as the source file, that is, the file you are editing. You can specify a single directory for all autosaved files, such as a directory you create called autosaved_files.

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Interfacing with Source Control Systems