[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?

Amanda Babcock alb at quandary.org
Wed May 8 13:42:28 EST 2002


On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:30:12AM -0700, Kai MacTane wrote:

> 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).

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

Is there any way I can read the memory vi is using?

Amanda



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