Re: Wish: -r option to recover a crashed session
On 2004-07-10, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01:21 09 Jul 2004, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | If the user was in
> | the compose menu, for example, nothing about the message being
> | composed would be saved. I'm not sure what would happen if the user
> | was editing a message when SIGHUP was generated.
> |
> | So my thought is that a "sync--and-quit-on-HUP-or-TERM" switch
> | wouldn't be enough to avoid frustrating data loss upon an unexpected
> | hang-up.
>
> Well I see two approaches to this, one already ok.
>
> Firstly, editors tend to save interrupted sessions. So that's so of ok.
>
> Second, when I abort a mutt compose session it asks if I want the message
> postponed. Have any message in compose mode _be_ in the postponed queue,
> and have that question undo that state if necessary. In this way the
> compose state is covered too.
>
> Sound ok?
Yeah, I think so. There's some risk that the state of the postponed
queue could be changed while the message was being edited, so it's
not bullet-proof, but it seems to allow the user to recover the
important stuff in most cases.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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