Re: Autosave, LaTeX save as

[Adrian Custer <acuster nature berkeley edu>]

All crashes are bugs!

Please file a bug with the formats that crash the exporter on bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gnumeric
if you can track down the specific formats that crash your exporter that
would be helpful also.

Also please give us a hint as to your setup. The crash may be gnumeric
or due to a particular combination of c library/glib/gtk+/... so the
more detail the better.

As for autosave, you could file that as another bug, an enhancement
request for the gnumeric setup. There was a discussion a while back
about whether autosave should be file specific or global and I don't
think it was ever resolved. It seems there are multiple issues:
1) auto-save (global or per file)
2) auto-backup (to a .bak or ~ file)
so you might try to distinguish between the two.

cheers,
adrian

On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 18:51, Jeffrey Edlund wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> It would be really nice it gnumeric could be set to automatically save
> backups of ALL modified files.  I recently had to redo several tables
> after gnumeric crashed while exporting a table to LaTeX.  Sure I can turn
> on autosave, but then I have to remember to turn that on everytime I open
> a file in gnumeric.  After a few crashes it gets really easy to forget to
> turn it back on.  It seems to me that gnumeric really needs to have an
> automatic backup feature that doesn't just save on top of the output file,
> but instead something like outfile.gnumeric.bak.  This feature should
> either be turned on by default or be set in a configuration file. Abiword
> is an example of a program that has a good backup feature.  It even saves
> a special backup file before it crashes.
>
> The LaTeX export crashes if the sheet has certain formats in the table.  I
> don't remember the exact formats, if this isn't a known problem then I'll
> play with it until I get something reproducable.
>
> Thanks for a the good work with gnumeric, 
>
> Jeffrey 
>
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