[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?

[Kai MacTane]

At 5/8/02 09:34 AM , Amanda Babcock wrote:
>Here are the statuses of the processes:
>
>seeker 52823  0.0  1.9  8796  504  p1  S+    8:53AM   1:00.42 mutt
>seeker 53516  0.0  0.4   628   96  p1  I+    9:50AM   0:00.01 sh -c vi 
>'/tmp/mutt-mercury-52823-23'
>seeker 53517  0.0  2.9  1608  780  p1  I+    9:50AM   0:07.77 vi 
>/tmp/mutt-mercury-52823-23

Have you tried looking for /tmp/.mutt-mercury-52823-23.swp ? IIRC, that's 
how vi usually saves its stuff as things progress. In theory, that file 
should have everything up until vi crashed (or whatever).

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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