From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lowell Kirsh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: revert-buffer tragedy Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:16:32 -0700 Organization: Department of Computer Science, UBC Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114222548 3995 80.91.229.2 (23 Apr 2005 02:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 23 04:15:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPAAm-0002Ja-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:15:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPAFo-0003oM-LF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:20:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!nntp.itservices.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca Original-X-Trace: mughi.cs.ubc.ca 1114222593 10945 142.103.7.7 (23 Apr 2005 02:16:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@cs.ubc.ca Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:16:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:88677 gnu.emacs.help:130408 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25979 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25979 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