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 Perhaps I'm out of date here. Cheers, David.