Lowell Kirsh wrote:
I just lost hours of work due to a combination of auto-revert-buffer
and accidentally overwriting a file in my shell.
I do not know what shell you were using and how you accidentally
overwrote your file from the shell. But if you were using bash and
overwrote using output
Thank you all for your advice. Unfortunately nothing worked. I have to
redo my work. At least I've learned a valuable lesson: backup frequently!
Lowell
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Lowell Kirsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just lost hours of work due to a combination of auto-revert-buffer
> and accidentally overwriting a file in my shell. I was working on
> foo.txt in an emacs buffer and accidentally overwrote it from a shell
> prompt while it was open in the buffer. When
Lowell Kirsh wrote:
> I just lost hours of work due to a combination of auto-revert-buffer
> and accidentally overwriting a file in my shell. I was working on
> foo.txt in an emacs buffer and accidentally overwrote it from a shell
> prompt while it was open in the buffer. When I went back to emacs
On 4/22/05, Lowell Kirsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any ideas how I might be able to
> recover my work?
Not quite sure I can help you recover it, but, I have some very
paranoid settings in my .emacs to avoid just this situation. If you
don't have something like the following, adding them will pr
