That makes sense. This thread also reminded me of Canvas which might be a better way to save power. Do you turn each of your layers into canvases?

Thanks everyone for the extremely illuminating answers!

Have fun getting a blinking cursor with that.

That is, in fact, the one bit of animation I was hoping to retain Which introduces problems of redrawing the character under the cursor as well..

I have this idea for an app that draws to the screen as little as possible. So I tried modifying love.run (from https://love2d.org/wiki/love.run) to only draw on events: function love.run() love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(1,1,1) love.graphics.origin() love.graphics.clear(love.graphics.getBackground...

Thank you! I'll try that suggestion.

Here's a simple .love file. I'll also paste in all of main.lua: Text = '' function love.draw() love.graphics.setColor(1,1,1) love.graphics.print(Text) end function love.keypressed(key, scancode, isrepeat) if key == 'tab' then Text = Text..key elseif key == 'escape' then Text = '' end end As you can ...

I built an exporter to markdown+SVG -- as a separate app. You can see it in action in this video: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108580451364837131. This way people who need the export functionality can get it, without complicating the code for everyone else.

Thanks everyone, I reduced the write frequency. I ended up going with a single timer. Now all the places where I was writing before simply set a dirty bit to schedule a save. Then I periodically save inside update based on the timestamp of the dirty bit. This seems equivalent to all your suggestions...

https://superuser.com/questions/1117900 ... hard-drive

Thanks for raising the issue. SSD lifetime wasn't on my radar at all. I'm still thinking about the best way to deal with it.

My editor autosaves whenever something changes in the file. Clicking on the button mutates the underlying file.

I've always wanted an editor for plain text that would let me seamlessly insert line drawings. I finally got around to this desire after discovering LÖVE. http://akkartik.name/lines.html I've had only good experiences so far with Lua and LÖVE. They let me build apps with just Lua that is easy for an...