Enabling automatic file lock in Mountain Lion?

The Autosave+duplicate+autolock features in lion where one of the best things to ever happen to the operating system. It provided a bit of source control right in the OS. Brilliant.
For the first time, people didn't accedentially tromp on old files when they ment to "save as", but pessed save instead. In our small company it was a huge improvement in file management.
In Mountain lion autolock is gone(!?!) And without it the autosave and duplicate features don't quite make sense on their own. Worse yet, you don't have to accedientally tromp on a file, the system will do it for you if you make changes before you "save as".
Anyway to turn on autosave? Even from the terminal?
P.S. Please don't dumb-down OS X. OS X should retain power user features. If some people don't want them, have a way to turn off the behavoir in preferences... don't just eliminate them.

One way is to right click on the font collection name and choose Enable from the contextual menu.

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