Alright- thank you! On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 12:07:59 AM UTC-5, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 8:08:10 PM UTC-6, Joshua Luria wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Recently my laptop crashed while I was editing a file and I wasn't able to > > use the CL recovery option, nor was there a swap file available. I did find > > a backup file of what I was working on in `~/.vim/backups/`. > > > > Well, the command-line recovery option is only available if there is a swap > file. > > > Is there anything I can do with that file? > > > > The backup is created whenever you save your file, and it contains the > content of the file prior to the save. This lets you get it back if you > messed up while editing. It isn't a backup for when your system crashes. > That's what swap files are for (among other things).
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