On Tuesday 04 July 2006 22:44, John Orr wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:32, you wrote: > > Let's say I have a .filename.swp as the swap file. Is it possible to > > automatically recover and store the recovered file as filename.recovered? > > I would like to do this non-interactively and for multiple files. Any > > ideas? > > A great question I think - maybe vim has a way to handle these files > simply, but I don't know of it. > > If it helps, below is the perl script I use to find .*.sw* files, open them > with -r, save them with a "new_" prefix, compare the new to the original > file they came from, and delete the new if they are the same. If not the > same, open them both with gvimdiff (hence the "new_" prefix rather than > extension - so syntax highlighting still works). >
Your script is a life saver! Thank you very much for posting it. raju -- This email account uses challenge-response system. Contact me only if you are comfortable with it.
