Found the issue, here's a patch that fixes it. It's been a while since i last did gtk programming, so it may not be the cleanest way to handle this. Disabling the menu entry (and keyboard shortcut) until there is something to save would probably be best.
-- xchat-gnome crashes on 'save transcript' on blank screen https://launchpad.net/bugs/52692 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
