Auto-save in GEdit vs the new GNOME Text Editor

I recently compared GEedit’s auto-save to Kate’s swap-save feature. Both features try to achieve the same goal — to protect your unsaved work from power failures and crashes — but through different means.
The new GNOME 42 release replaces GEdit with GNOME Text Editor (GTE) as the recommended default text editor. GTEd also has a feature like Kate’s swap-save, so I thought I’d revisit the topic.
GEdit has a feature to periodically auto-save your documents (off by default). The option does what it says on the tin: it automatically overwrites your saved document every couple of minutes. You can undo and restore earlier versions until you quit GEdit.
This approach is potentially destructive and can cause you to irrecoverably lose data. It’s a poor implementation mimicking Apple’s TextEdit app on Mac. TextEdit auto-saves your changes, yes, but it also keeps older versions of your documents. You can restore earlier versions of your documents in case you’ve overwritten something you didn’t intend to.
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