Original question:
I apologize up front for being off-topic, but I couldn't think of a better place
for quick answers as I am unfamiliar with GNU emacs One of my users was using
emacs to edit a large file when his session was
interrupted. He laater inadvertantly deleted the file. Does emacs buffer the
session in a journal or temp file somewhere? If the file wasn't backed up as a
journal, is there any method of recovery??
Thanks in advance,
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Thanks to John F. Marten (and serveral others) for his quick reply:
in the directory where he was editing his file
there should be a file with the same name encased in
pound signs. so, if he was editing myfile.txt
there should be a file named #myfile.txt# in that
directory. you can recover said file in emacs using
the esc-x recover (filename) command.
Unfortunately, the affected file is not there. We don't know what happened, but
its definately a gonner.
Thanks everyone.
Received on Wed Dec 22 1999 - 21:09:19 NZDT