 Tip #286: Recover after doing something... ugly.
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July 23, 2002 1:07 |
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Little Dragon |
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I was once editing a file and wanted to test something. The test was meant to add a line at the end of the file, from outside vim. All was fine, but instead of >>, I wrote >. You can imagine what happened... :)
If you happen to do something like that, the solution is:
:recover
<< Don't use the escape key! |
Cool trick to change numbers >>
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nitya,
July 25, 2002 9:55
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| This command works only if you have swap file. But in case you don't have swap file, u'll not be able to recover ur file
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mikael _at_ alminde _period_ _organisation_,
September 9, 2006 2:11
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A note for the non-*nix using <del>bastards</del> folks out there.
When adding the output of a program to a file you write
`program >> file`
However, when you want to *replace* a file with the output of a program you write
`program > file`
Meaning that a simple omission of a > can result in the complete deletion of the file.
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