[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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