On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:09PM -0500, Samuel Padgett wrote: > I sometimes ssh into my machine from work and use Mutt. The > connection through the firewall, however, is, uh, a bit tenuous > and often gets dropped. Sometimes this happens when I am > composing a message. Is there a good way to recover these > compositions and pick up where I left off? > > I'm using Vim as my editor.
Depending on how vim was terminated, you might be able to use 'vim -r' to recover the file. See the man page. A better way to handle this is to run screen on your work machine. Then when your connection drops, simply re-logon to your work machine, run 'screen -r' to re-attach the screen session, and pick up where you left off. Everything will be just as it was when the connection dropped. It is _so_ nice! See http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/ Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |