Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch
On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 12:50:33 (-0500), Anthony Baldwin wrote:
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> On 02/15/2017 11:05 AM, David Wright wrote:
> >On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 10:49:06 (-0500), Tony Baldwin wrote:
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> >>I get random ID crashes, pretty well daily, but no consistently
> >>identifiable cause. It really seems to be occurring very randomly,
> >>I'll just be reading messages when suddenly *pop* it dies like a
> >>soap bubble on a Christmas tree, no error msg, no prior indication
> >>of instability, etc.; Just sudden, random crashing. It generally
> >>comes right back up without issue and functions normally afterwards.
> >>Thankfully, it rarely does it while I'm composing a message, that
> >>would REALLY annoy me, and I would likely have already appeared here
> >>seeking a solution to the problem, but since, so far, it hasn't
> >>caused me any real loss, but rather just minor annoyance, I haven't
> >>mentioned it, until now.
> >
> >If you compose in an editor like emacs, it auto-saves periodically.
> >With your email tmpdir set to /var/tmp, these will even survive reboots.
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> But why would I install an entire VM+OS like E.M.A.C.S. when Icedove
> has its own message composer/editor ?
> if I wanted to use a different editor I'd be using MUTT with VIM. ;-)
Indeed. But you wrote "Thankfully, it rarely does it while I'm
composing a message". So someone else (we're on a list) might
appreciate the advice. I was under the impression that changing the
composition editor in ID was not immediately obvious. Perhaps I'm
out of date here.
Cheers,
David.
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