For those of us who are fallible like Drew (and Geoff too :-) you can have Nisus prompt you to save each new file. In the Nisus Macros there is a macro called INITNew (default is empty). In that macro put the following single line: Save AsÉ You will now be prompted each time you open a new untitled file to save right away, before you start work. For those people for whom this is still too much user interference, you can have the macro automatically save the file as a temp file, like this: clipboard = "Temp" + (docname - "Untitled") Save As 'your-temp-folder-path:\CC' For this macro to work right youÕll need to change the pathname in the "Save As" line to something appropriate. The drawback of this method is that youÕll _never_ be prompted to save, and you might forget to save properly those temp files you actually want to keep. This macro will begin overwriting the old temp files each time you start up Nisus. On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 10:20:18 +1100 Geoffrey Heard wrote... >At 12:03 PM +0000 12/1/01, Andrew Rodger wrote: >>At 7:15 pm +1100 12/1/01, Geoffrey Heard wrote: >>>Then there are the ordinary citizens who finally learned top save >>>before they began to type! >> >>Well good for you. I have a working system which involves drawing and >>writing and it is very useful, because of the way I work, to have automated >>saving. With my drawing application, on first save, it shows me an alert >>and beeps, with writing it shows me an alert and does not beep, so it is >>sort of half alert. I cannot stand the machine babbling at me every time >>something comes up on the screen, so I do not do "speak alerts". I was >>merely asking for an option to have a wee beep to get my attention. >>Ironically I write looking down and I draw looking up. I was looking for >>logic rather than a work round, unless it is something I can tweak with >>ResEdit. >Relax Roger, I wasn't holding myself up as the greatest. It took >years, but it is a habit I have now adopted across all my programs, >writing, outlining, DTP, drawing, database, spreadsheet, even >emailing -- and I feel any program which does not autosave is >crippled (there's a lot of it about). >And, yes, I still get caught. >Speak alerts? Aaaaarrrggghhhhh! I fight a constant running battle >with the teenager to keep them turned off. >Cheers, >Geoff -------------------------------------- Philip Spaelti Kobe Shoin Women's University spaelti@shoin.ac.jp --------------------------------------
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