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Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

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On 02/15/2017 03:38 PM, David Wright wrote:
> 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 out of date here.

No. you're right. It is not obvious, in fact, I didn't know it could be 
done at all, tbh.
Sorry my attempt at humour was even less obvious, apparently.

Tony

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http://tonybaldwin.me
all tony, all the time

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Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 15:40 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-15 16:00 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 16:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-16 10:20 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-16 10:50 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 16:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 21:30 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-15 16:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 16:40 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 21:30 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 01:20 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-15 16:50 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-15 17:00 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-15 17:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-15 17:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2017-02-15 19:10 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-15 19:40 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-02-15 21:40 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com> - 2017-02-16 04:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-15 21:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 23:50 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 00:00 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-16 09:30 +0100
            Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 15:20 +0100
              Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-18 10:40 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-25 16:50 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-02-25 17:50 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-25 18:40 +0100
                Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-02-26 10:30 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-26 00:20 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Frank Lanitz <frank@frank.uvena.de> - 2017-02-16 23:30 +0100
  Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Benjamin Rochefort <ben@benwen.info> - 2017-02-16 14:00 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 15:10 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-26 00:20 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> - 2017-02-16 21:20 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Benjamin Rochefort <ben@benwen.info> - 2017-02-17 00:40 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-02-17 01:40 +0100
          Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Benjamin Rochefort <ben@benwen.info> - 2017-02-17 03:10 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-02-16 21:50 +0100
      Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Jape Person <japers@comcast.net> - 2017-02-16 22:00 +0100
        Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-02-16 22:20 +0100
    Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 11:20 +0100

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