I'm a Systems Reliability and DevOps engineer for Netdata Inc. When not working, I enjoy studying linguistics and history, playing video games, and cooking all kinds of international cuisine.
Right after creating a new file, right after finishing a logical block of changes or additions, right before leaving the editor, and that's about it.
I use vim to the exclusion of pretty much everything else (even for things like formal documents, I do them in Markdown in vim first, then manually copy the result into LibreOffice to do the final formatting and save), and the way I have it configured means that as long as the disk doesn't die (at which point I'm screwed anyway), the editor exiting without me explicitly closing it won't lose much (if any), it'll just prompt me about recovery when I open the file again.
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Right after creating a new file, right after finishing a logical block of changes or additions, right before leaving the editor, and that's about it.
I use
vimto the exclusion of pretty much everything else (even for things like formal documents, I do them in Markdown invimfirst, then manually copy the result into LibreOffice to do the final formatting and save), and the way I have it configured means that as long as the disk doesn't die (at which point I'm screwed anyway), the editor exiting without me explicitly closing it won't lose much (if any), it'll just prompt me about recovery when I open the file again.