Anthony Baldwin: > > > On 02/15/2017 11:05 AM, David Wright wrote: >> On Wed 15 Feb 2017 at 10:49:06 (-0500), Tony Baldwin wrote: >>>>> Thankfully, it rarely does it while I'm composing a message, that >>> would REALLY annoy me, >> >> 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. ;-)
In 45.6.0 (at least) in preferences ==> composition ==> save every X minutes ... you can make it really small for all the text you can type in subminute time :) Thinking of this it may be at times where autosave takes place that it crashes so the question becomes does it crash when at rest or when you are editing a message? Does it crash while reaching a pop or an imap server, does it crash while trying to reach a specific server, does it crash while trying to reach mozilla for an update .. I never liked vi although in general life I really like OLD things, like a bike from the 70s or a blender from the 50s -- "The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG
