From 961c8cde87fd2e2ef2fe86969964d29068c177c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Cochrane <alcinnz@eml.cc>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:38:31 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] Guard against spuriously saving blank files.

Because for some reason this would happen seemingly at random before.
No idea why. But I did test that it occurs during save, not read.

And it doesn't appear to happen anymore.
---
 src/window.vala | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/window.vala b/src/window.vala
index c332a99..f7f1d22 100644
--- a/src/window.vala
+++ b/src/window.vala
@@ -56,8 +56,12 @@ public class WriteAs.MainWindow : Gtk.ApplicationWindow {
         Timeout.add_full(Priority.DEFAULT_IDLE, 100/*ms*/, () => {
             if (!text_changed) return Source.CONTINUE;
 
+            var text = canvas.buffer.text;
+            // This happens sometimes for some reason, but it's difficult to debug.
+            if (text == "") return Source.CONTINUE;
+
             try {
-            draft_file().replace_contents(canvas.buffer.text.data, null, false,
+            draft_file().replace_contents(text.data, null, false,
                 FileCreateFlags.PRIVATE | FileCreateFlags.REPLACE_DESTINATION,
                 null);
             text_changed = false;
@@ -76,7 +80,7 @@ public class WriteAs.MainWindow : Gtk.ApplicationWindow {
         init_folder();
         try {
             open_file(draft_file());
-        } catch (Error err) {/* It's fine... */}
+        } catch (Error err) {canvas.buffer.text = err.message;}
         restore_styles();
 
         set_default_size(800, 600);