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Greetings,

I dunno if this is common to all platforms, but I have particularly noticed in my windows machine at work:

I run newLISP-GS, hack around, leave it open and when I come back the next day (the machine has tasks to do during the night, so it's on during the week) my newLISP-GS session is gone.

As I usually prefer using gVIM and a shell for development, I only use newLIPS-GS for the convinience when testing functions or ideas, so I don't really know if I have lost any data. I did lost, however, my hacking session, which is not bad but it's annoying, unless it's saved somewhere else I don't know about...)

Can anyone confirm this behavior? If so, can be fixed? A /tmp/ buffer file like in VI could be nice for this kind of happenings... it would provide a recovery option, or at least something similar...

Anyway, I just thought I'd let you know, for future releases...

Also, if I can get some free time, I'll try to check the sources myself, but even then I won't promise any result :-)

thanks!

PS- posted inadvertently on the Unixen forum, moved here as fast as I could.

Its the network connection between the Java newLISP-GS library (guiserver.jar) and newLISP GUI program (newlisp-edit.lsp or newlisp-edit) which gets lost after prolonged inactivity. You can observe this on all platforms.

It probably could be fixed by some periodical "pinging" between the two processes, but I am not sure its's worth the effort?