# Save and Continue Editing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [June 10, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713 "2006-06-10T08:51:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713/1 "2006-06-10T08:51:00Z")

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Also of note in Changeset 57:

- I added a “Save and Continue Editing” button

Please note that this should be considered experimental. I haven’t  
decided if it’s an improvement or not.

–  
John L.  
[http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com)

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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713/2 "2006-06-10T09:51:45Z")

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On 6/10/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Please note that this should be considered experimental. I haven’t  
> decided if it’s an improvement or not.

I was wanting _this exactly_ tonight when writing a long blog entry (I  
like to save often, just in case). If it saves, keeps you on the same  
page, and is in a decent place, works for me! 😉

Bruce

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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713/3 "2006-06-10T14:49:24Z")

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Bruce W. wrote:

> On 6/10/06, John W. Long [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > Please note that this should be considered experimental. I haven’t  
> > decided if it’s an improvement or not.
> 
> I was wanting _this exactly_ tonight when writing a long blog entry (I  
> like to save often, just in case). If it saves, keeps you on the same  
> page, and is in a decent place, works for me! 😉

Yup, that’s how it works. +10 points if you make it work with AJAX. 🙂

–  
John

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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713/4 "2006-06-10T18:50:04Z")

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Hello John, your addition is very useful. In the future we may think  
of adding some “hot key” management (like instiki) for saving a page  
and continue editing (for example: “ALT-S”) or save and leave the page  
(“ALT-E”), because in smaller screens you have to use the mouse to  
reach the bot ton of the page, which contains the “save” buttons and  
you have to move the hands from the keyboard. I understand it is maybe  
a “luxury”, but it could be useful. --M

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**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 9:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/save-and-continue-editing/95713/5 "2006-06-10T21:12:28Z")

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What about having some Ajax style auto-save functionality? Kind of like  
GMail. If you are worried about saving content that isn’t wanted, maybe  
this  
auto-save feature could turn on only after you’ve issues a save or save  
and  
continue (not to mention editing).