[Techtalk] Rescue data in a hung vi process?

[Akkana]

Amanda Babcock writes:
> I have a hung vi process.  vi was started by mutt, which was running under
[ ... ]
> Anyway, I thought maybe I could send it a signal of some kind (I already 

I *think* that if you send vi a -HUP, it will write to the recovery
file before exiting.  (So you can do vi -r on it.)  But try it on
another vi process before you risk it with the one you care about. :-)

	...Akkana