On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:05:51 +0100, Jelle de Jong <jelledej...@powercraft.nl> wrote:
>>> Today I got an other disappointed experience with Geany. I was >>> working on some large bash program while I run out of disk space >>> due to some test converting script running in the background. >>> >>> I hit the save button of the script I was working on and the script >>> was over written to a 0 (zero) size document losing the complete >>> document. Geany should stop doing this, and should not write to the >>> file when there is no space! >> >> The user should take care of his system and the disk space. >> Anyway, I definitely will fix the issue that configuration files will >> get lost when there is no disk space available sometime this week. >> And probably also for normal documents files (though I'm still not >> convinced of the need of this). >> >>> I had to investigate my complete hard disk and memory to recover >>> some >> >> You should investigate your shell script which ate all of your >> available disk space. This is the real bug, IMO. >> >> (SCNR) >> >> Regards, >> Enrico >> > >Hi Enrico, > >You are right the user should take care of his disk space. The script >that run was not really to blame, it generated 2GB raw scanned images >on > a 4 GB disk, warning of no more disk space came up but was to late. > But >this is not the problem behind losing the working files that geany had >opened. > >Geany should provide a fail to save error and catch the exception. It >should then not renew the displayed contained of the file. But should >let the user provide an other place to store the file. This way the >current work will not be lost. Yup, will post an update here when things changed. >Are you goging to fosdem? Then I can buy you a beer for the great Geany >tool. Unfortunately not, maybe next year. Give the beer to one of the Xfce guys, they deserved it even more. Regards, Enrico -- Get my GPG key from http://www.uvena.de/pub.asc
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