Had two files in emacs all afternoon, making occasional changes but didn't bother saving them. Got up to have dinner. Came back, and my X cursor was the "I" cursor usually used for text entry. I could move it around, but I couldn't do anything with keys or with the mouse buttons. This happens every now and then. Cursing X, but figuring my auto-save files would rescue me, I CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACEd out of X. Got back to normal and looked at the auto save files from an xterm. They were the right ones, containing all my work. Then I used "M-x recover-file" to get them. Instead of replacing my original (unchanged since yesterday) files with the auto-save files, emacs replaced the auto-save files with the old regular files, and a good hour or two worth of work went away. Can somebody tell me exactly what emacs thinks I mean when I do "M-x recover-file", tell it to recover suchandsuch.pro, then answer "yes" when emacs says "Auto-save file #suchandsuch.pro# is newer; recover?"? --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Greg Fall [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~gmfall -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
