[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #7916: Automatically save cutlist during editing

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 01/15/2010 11:40 PM, MythTV wrote:
>> #7916: Automatically save cutlist during editing
>>
>>  All too frequently, my frontend hangs while editing a cutlist and all my
>>  edits are lost.  (This can be easily tested by killing the mythfrontend
>>  process while editing and then trying to resume editing.)  This patch
>>  saves all editing changes as they are made.
>>
>
>
> Jim, what would you think of a manually-invoked "save without exiting"
> action in the SELECT menu as well as a nice keybinding for SAVE.  The
> thought of automatically-saved cutlists worries me (as just hitting Z in
> the editor would all of a sudden make a real cutlist and a user
> accidentally cutting out all but some tiny portion of the show would
> have to become familiar with mythcommflag --clearcutlist and/or we'd
> need to have a "Clear Cutlist" action in the Watch Recordings menu or ...).
>
> I /very/ much like the idea of "save without exiting"--it's just the
> "automatically" part that worries me.

Speaking selfishly, I wouldn't like it as much.  I can't predict when
my editing will cause the machine to hang (if I could, I would fix
it), so I would have to get into the habit of save-without-exiting
after each separate edit.  Admittedly, a keybinding would help a lot.

Your example is equally a problem today, since (unless I missed it)
there is no "exit without saving" option.  I could go on, but
everything derives from this point.

Jim