From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Autosave and filename too long Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:23:37 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <_DOt9.20721$DP6.65383@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <94lw9.52$qm4.1695775@news.cpqcorp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036119409 4324 80.91.224.249 (1 Nov 2002 02:56:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 02:56:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187RzK-00017Y-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 03:56:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187Rtr-0004Lh-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:51:07 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.228.27.239 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1036117417 12.228.27.239 (Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:23:37 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 02:23:37 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106636 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3187 "Matt Muggeridge" writes: >Just a quick update. > >Today I had the unfortunate situation of losing my connection mid-edits. >After reestablishing my environment and then opening the file, emacs did >automatically detect I had unsaved edits and prompted me to use >recover-file. I did this, and it recovered the autosave filename. > >All in all, I'm a happy camper - Thanks Michael! > >I guess my attempt to test recovery before was not quite accurate. When it >really counted, it worked! > >Matt. > Hey, that's great news. Were the files in question on the remote filesystem, by any chance? -- Mike Slass