On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:49:12 -0800, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I was using vim to vreate a file and cleaned up file~.  now when i 
> type vim file  I only see data?  is there a w ay of recovering the
> file or  did I screw ssomething up?

Check if /var/tmp/vi.recover does contain something. Also
check if vim has been set to automatically create backups
(of files before they get overwritten).


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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