#296 Add flag to prevent DEADJOE from being created

[John J. Jordan]

Requested in the mailing list: https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mailman/message/32423915/

[Egmont Koblinger]

+1 here

I don't quite the purpose of DEADJOE - I never find actual useful information there (that is: unsaved contents of the file I was editing). It's just metadata about which files I was editing, hardly useful after a crash.

[John J. Jordan]

It ought to save out the full file if it was modified. The relevant code is in ttsig() in b.c:

for (b = bufs.link.next; b != &bufs; b = b->link.next)
    if (b->changed) {
        if (b->name)
            fprintf(ttsig_f, "\n*** File \'%s\'\n", b->name);
        else
            fprintf(ttsig_f, "\n*** File \'(Unnamed)\'\n");
        fflush(ttsig_f);
        bsavefd(b->bof, fileno(ttsig_f), b->eof->byte);
    }

If it isn't saving out a modified file, then that's a bug.

[Egmont Koblinger]

I don't know why I had the impression that it never put anything useful in that file. Works for me now.

[John J. Jordan]

Patch

[John J. Jordan]

Fixed in [8a1176]

[Gerrit Griebel]

I like DEADJOE files, but only for normal buffers, not for minibuffers containing only filenames and text of incremental searches. Should I reopen this one or file a new issue or is there an existing option to avoid such entries in DEADJOE files?