Subject: Re: Different name extension for auto-saved files?
From: Joaquin Cuenca Abela (e98cuenc@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 12 2001 - 14:04:40 CDT
--- Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:
>
> Hi Joaquin,
> It just occurred to me that having auto-saved
> files with an
> extension *.bak is perhaps not such a good idea.
[snip]
> How about renaming the backup file, *.sav or
> something else. That way
> users only lose a few minutes of typing upon a
> segfault.
>
> Can you make this change? I'm flat out with other
> bug fixes right now.
of course, give me just a few minutes
What about changing the extension of the file saved by
the segfault handler (something as
"filename.abw.SEGFAULTED")?
It should do it pretty visible.
I like Mike's idea of prefixing file names of
autosaved files instead of suffixing them, but I think
that users are very used to .bak (or "~" for linux
users), and changing it now would create some
confusion...
cvs is in a semi-working state here (it seems that my
ISP is badly broken...), so if I can not commit I will
post a patch.
Cheers,
-- Joaquín Cuenca Abela e98cuenc@yahoo.com__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
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