[Geany-Users] Backup file needed, especially after crash

[Lex Trotman]

On 10 December 2015 at 21:31, Thomas Martitz <kugel at rockbox.org> wrote:
> Am 10.12.2015 um 11:43 schrieb Ronald Fischer:
>>
>> Once in a while, Geany crashes with a Java Runtime error (no detailed
>> description), and especially in this case, having a backup file would be
>> great.
>
>
>
> What? Geany doesn't involve a single piece of Java. The crashes are specific
> to your system.

Thomas is correct, Geany does not use Java, what were you doing when
the crashes occurred?

>
>
>>
>> Ideally, Geany should be configurable to
>>
>>   - write a backup file on every "Save" operation, and
>> -  write an additional backup file ever N minutes.
>>
>> Can this be configured somehow? I could not find in the settings any
>> configuration for doing a backup.
>>
>> This is Geany 1.25 for Windows....
>
>
>
> There is the saveactions plugin which can be configured to do periodic
> backups and on save.  It's part of the geany-plugins umbrella project. Get
> it from here:

Actually saveactions is a core plugin, so you should already have it,
menu->tools->plugin manager

>
> Best regards
>
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