Re: Balsa crash on draft save attempt

[Larry Rosenman <ler lerctr org>]

On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 14:01, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> I have not had this specific crash, but have had one that might be related.
> 
> I am using Balsa 1.4.0 and occasionally (not every time), after using
> the spell-checker and finding a misspelled word, if I click to replace
> the incorrect word with the correct one, Balsa crashes abruptly.
I've also seen one if I select the #shared link in the folder view.

FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE, balsa from ports, and EVERYTHING upgraded with a
portupgrade -rRf balsa


> 
> Barry Skidmore
> 
> On 09.02.2002 11:20 Willem Riede wrote:
> > Have you ever had Balsa crash on you when you did substantial work to
> > compose
> > a mail and figured "I ought to save this draft so I don't lose it" and
> > then
> > lost it all the same because of the crash? Well I just have (Balsa
> > 1.3.7).
> > 
> > I looked for a temporary, possibly hidden, file that might have been the
> > file
> > system backing for the editor, but didn't find one. Are drafts kept only
> > in
> > memory? If so, what would it take to create file system backing so
> > recovery
> > could be possible?
> > 
> > I guess that might really be a gnome-edit issue? Can I use vi (which
> > understands
> > recovery) instead? (Please don't comment that you have another favorite
> > editor,
> > we can do without another such flame war).
> > 
> > Thanks, willem Riede.
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