Re: Message compose temp file disappearing

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:29:43 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time) Brendan Barnwell <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:28:09 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
> Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I've never seen this and all I can say is that M deletes the
> > file when the editor process terminates. When this happens it
> > also gives a message in the status bar of the composer
> > ("External editor terminated..."), do you see it?

> Hmmm, yes, it just happened and I saw that message -- but the
> editor was still running.  I'll see if I can see any more pattern
> to what's causing it to think the editor has closed.

Would it be the case that  your editor reuses an already existing
instance of itself?  I suppose this could explain the behavior you
see: as the copy of the editor ends, M supposes that the editing
task is over, while it is actually going on in the other running
copy of your editor.

> 	No, I have logging on but there never seems to be anything
> useful in the log file after the crash.  Sometimes it hangs and then
> resumes after a while.  The disturbing thing is the GUI degradation
> that I mentioned: the menu bar often disappears, or some dialog that
> was floating there will disappear, and sometimes if I task-switch away I
> won't be able to task-switch back.

Given that M is not multi-threaded, all of this seems
(unfortunately) normal to me.

-- 
Xavier Nodet
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

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