Dashboard: While editing a devfile of a workspace, user is constantly interrupted by the auto save

Describe the bug

Editing the devfile of an existing workspace from the dashboard is a nightmare. It is not possible to edit a command and being interrupted by the auto save which is not doing it silently: while the user is typing it is saving, reformatting, scrolling and undoing what the user had typed few millisecond before.

Che version

• latest
• 7.0.0-next
• other: please specify

Runtime

• kubernetes (include output of kubectl version)
• Openshift (include output of oc version)
• minikube (include output of minikube version and kubectl version)
• minishift (include output of minishift version and oc version)
• docker-desktop + K8S (include output of docker version and kubectl version)
• other: (please specify)

Screenshots

Installation method

• chectl
• che-operator
• minishift-addon
• I don’t know

Environment

• my computer
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS
• Cloud
  • Amazon
  • Azure
  • GCE
  • other (please specify)
• other: please specify

[AndrienkoAleksandr]

+1 to disable, but it would be nice to have hotkey, f.e. Ctrl +S to save defile.

[sunix]

To me the problem is not autosave itself but the fact that it is reformatting/changing your file and the cursor doesn’t follow. Is it necessary to reformat the file ? could we reformat after 10 secs of inactivity ? could we set the cursor back to where it was after reformatting ?