On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 09:04:45AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> 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).
>
>
No joy. I think what happened was that i tried nvi and got an error
message that the file was an 8-bit and would be truncated. I quit out
of vi [[nvi], but the damage was done. --Oh well. I probly should
give jmy shoulder a bre ak anyway.
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