How to prevent PhpStorm to save file on exit without prompt?

Question

Consider this situation...You're just making changes to few files at once. The code isn't completed yet and the phone is ringing... Then you have to close PhpStorm, turn off your computer and hurry because something important happened. Then after one week you'll come back, launch your phpstorm and notice that everything you wrote was saved but asterisks are gone. So you don't know which files from those opened were changed before you left.

I read few posts here about confusing save functionality and I think this is really not very good how it's currently handled. phpstorm should ask if I want to save these changes or not or at least keep asterisks in tabs after launch so developer will know what file(s) was changed.

Answer 1

Check this out: http://devnet.jetbrains.net/thread/291434

"Do not autosave on exit" is strict "won't fix" from the team. You can't have tab asterisks back because file in editor is just loaded from disk and has no unsaved changes. It will have no sense.

If you need to preserve change sets over time you should really considering using source control.

Local git repository will provide you with all the features you need. Just install git, do "Version Control|Git Init" and you have nice changesets, chages in editor, diff on each change and file.

Answer 2

Autosave is an integral part of Jetbrains Platform behavior and can't be disabled.

Answer 3

In phpStorm 2.0 there is an automatic history that is saved, I guess it's own internal CVS that saves changes between files and specific lines. You can look at history of the files and restore to an earlier state sort of like windows restore points.

I found the auto save feature annoying too UNTIL I found the history tool in phpStorm and now I don't care if my files are autosaved or not because I can compare all changes to any point in time I want.