diff --git a/lib/form/editor.php b/lib/form/editor.php
index 551e30645b5..1e8259c3cfe 100644
--- a/lib/form/editor.php
+++ b/lib/form/editor.php
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ class MoodleQuickForm_editor extends HTML_QuickForm_element implements templatab
     /** @var array options provided to initalize filepicker */
     protected $_options = array('subdirs' => 0, 'maxbytes' => 0, 'maxfiles' => 0, 'changeformat' => 0,
             'areamaxbytes' => FILE_AREA_MAX_BYTES_UNLIMITED, 'context' => null, 'noclean' => 0, 'trusttext' => 0,
-            'return_types' => 7, 'enable_filemanagement' => true);
+            'return_types' => 7, 'enable_filemanagement' => true, 'autosave' => true);
     // $_options['return_types'] = FILE_INTERNAL | FILE_EXTERNAL | FILE_REFERENCE
 
     /** @var array values for editor */