On 02/15/2017 03:38 PM, David Wright wrote:
On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 12:50:33 (-0500), Anthony Baldwin wrote:On 02/15/2017 11:05 AM, David Wright wrote:On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 10:49:06 (-0500), Tony Baldwin wrote: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.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 Perhaps I'm out of date here.
No. you're right. It is not obvious, in fact, I didn't know it could be done at all, tbh.
Sorry my attempt at humour was even less obvious, apparently. Tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time