[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?

[Amanda Babcock]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:42:28PM -0400, Amanda Babcock wrote:

> Sadly, that doesn't exist.  Apparently I must not have autosave configured
> for vi :(

Update: kill -TRAP did indeed succeed in making vi dump core.  My question
now is:

  How is it that the entire message is not in the coredump?

I see the original, pre-editing text.  I see some lines that are obviously
changes I was making.  But some strings that I *know* were in the final
product are just not in there, not even as fragments.  Where was vi keeping 
the work-in-progress, if not in memory?

Do coredumps only dump *part* of the memory?

I'm confused.

This is so frustrating, the process is alive and still responding to signals
but *it won't give me my file*.

I wish there were a kill signal for "save changes".

Amanda