Autosave, LaTeX save as

[Jeffrey Edlund <jedlund ligo caltech edu>]

Hi, 

It would be really nice it gnumeric could be set to automatically save
backups of ALL modified files.  I recently had to redo several tables
after gnumeric crashed while exporting a table to LaTeX.  Sure I can turn
on autosave, but then I have to remember to turn that on everytime I open
a file in gnumeric.  After a few crashes it gets really easy to forget to
turn it back on.  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.  This feature should
either be turned on by default or be set in a configuration file. Abiword
is an example of a program that has a good backup feature.  It even saves
a special backup file before it 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.

Thanks for a the good work with gnumeric, 

Jeffrey