On Wed, 09 Aug 2000, sam th wrote:
> On 9 Aug 2000, Tim LaDuca wrote:
>
> > So I was typing the longest doc I had ever typed in AbiWord and was so
> > proud of it I decided to print it. Unfortunately after sending it to the
> > spooler Abiword dumped core. I thought well, I knew that might happen!
> > Then I remembered Sam or somebody saying on the list they added a
> > feature to have AbiWord save the document as it seg faulted. I checked
> > out my home directory and there was the doc, just as it had been before
> > I printed it. I may be mistaken, but I am almost positive MS Word is not
> > that able. It is one of the most vexing things to be working on an MS
> > Word document and then it crashes for no particular reason and all your
> > changes are lost. How is it possible for a application that has
> > basically crashed to still save its open document? Being a long time
> > Word user I find this completely amazing.
> >
>
> Actually, the remarkable thing about this feature is that it took about
> 100 lines of code and an hour, after I figured out what to do. And most
> of that was debugging. At least on Unix, signal handling is a trivial
> feature to add, if you aren't doing anything complex (saving !=
> complex). This is in fact what talkback builds of Mozilla do
> (AFAIK). The fact that no one has ever done this in another significant
> WP mystifies me completely.
>
LyX has had a similar feature for a long time - don't know whether it
meets your criteria for "significant" though...
Adam
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