Re: Autosave, LaTeX save as

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 06:51:24PM -0800, Jeffrey Edlund wrote:
> After a few crashes it gets really easy to forget to
> turn it back on.
EEK!  A few crashes ??

> The LaTeX export crashes if the sheet has certain formats in the table.  I
> don't remember the exact formats, if this isn't a known problem then I'll
> play with it until I get something reproducable.
Please report this to bugzilla with details gnumeric should not
crash.  Period.  We worked very hard on the stable tree to avoid
that.

> It seems to me that gnumeric really needs to have an
> automatic backup feature that doesn't just save on top of the output file,
> but instead something like outfile.gnumeric.bak.
The development version supports this I doubt we'll back port the
feature.