Any Notepad++ plugins to automatically save document versions
Solution 1
Settings > Preferences > Backup tab > Click Verbose Backup
This will time stamp a copy of your file every time you save.
Update:
AutoSave allows to automatically save the currently open files based on a timer schedule (default is 1 min) and/or upon the application losing focus. The plugin offers a couple of options to save the current (or all the files), selecting only the named ones, accessible through a menu.
[Via Lifehacker]
Update2: BEWARE: If the Custom Backup Directory you set to is deleted/moved, then the backups won't happen! No error is thrown notifying you of the dead link!
Solution 2
You might be better off looking into something closer to "real" version control - Mercurial, perhaps. It doesn't require a server, and it's really easy to set up.
To automate it, you could turn on autosave in Notepad++, and set up a windows scheduled task to do an hg commit
every few minutes.
Comments
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Cameron over 3 years
Does anyone know of any notepad++ plugin that saves a version of whatever I'm working on periodically? Ideally, it would save many versions with the automatic version number and the date in the title, and perhaps store them in a zipped archive to save space.
Does something like this exist already, or shold I attempt to write such a plugin myself?
Thanks,
CameronP.S. It should be freeware or (preferably) open-source.