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From: Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: revert-buffer tragedy
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:16:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4cb61$am1$1@mughi.cs.ubc.ca> (raw)

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, it reported that 
the buffer was reverted and when I tried to undo, it said no undo 
information was available. I've already checked in the ~/.backups folder 
but there is nothing useful there. Any ideas how I might be able to 
recover my work?

Lowell

             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-23  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-23  2:16 Lowell Kirsh [this message]
2005-04-23  4:48 ` revert-buffer tragedy Denis Bueno
2005-04-23  7:23 ` ken
2005-04-23  8:01 ` Adrian Aichner
2005-04-24  0:32 ` Lowell Kirsh
2005-04-24  0:49 ` Luc Teirlinck

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