On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:34:49 +0200 FD Cami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:12:17 +0200 > Enrico Tröger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yesterday an user reported that Geany behaves badly when there is no > > free disk space on the disk where the current file should be saved. > > That is, when you are editing a file in Geany, meanwhile your disk runs > > out of free space (extensive logging, copying large files, some > > process gone bad, ...) and you then save the file in Geany, it gets > > overwritten and the file is emptied. > > This is indeed bad. > > And there seems to be no easy way to fix it. > > > > The only solution which comes to my mind would be to check for > > available disk space before trying to write the file. Unfortunately, > > there seems to be no portable way of doing this. This does not work everytime, as far as I know there still could be a minute chance of another process writing stuff and filling up the disk before geany manages to write the file to disk. > It may be that one way to do it is : > * move "file" to "file~" > * save memory buffer to "file" > * remove "file~" > Since this does not scale very well for big files, there should be some > on/off option in preferences. I am going to work on that, unless a better idea comes up. Cheers F _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
