Hi, Vimmer, I just finished the rescue by manual copy/paste and with the help of ":!tac" to convert the inverted order. But I am still curious if there is any intelligent solution for this issue.
Thanks, Joseph On 3/21/07, Joseph WU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, Vimmer, Here is the information I got from "vim -r" Swap files found: In directory ./.backup: -- none -- In directory ~/tmp/vim-backup: -- none -- In directory /tmp: 1. htmlize-output.py.swp owned by: joseph dated: Wed Mar 21 16:03:41 2007 file name: /prj/Experiment/Data-View/script/htmlize-output.py modified: no user name: joseph host name: HLT029 process ID: 4373 Any idea to get it back? Thanks. Joseph On 3/21/07, Joseph WU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Vimmer, > > Sorry to disturb you, it's a bit urgent. :( > > I coded a script in gvim just a hour ago and kept it opening when I > was doing something else. After I returned to gvim, it prompted me > that a file has been modified. At that time, I didn't realize it was > that script file I coded, due to a lot of files opening. I just > pressed the "load" button quickly without any check. But, oops, all > the codes I wrote were completely gone.... :( (even now, I didn't > remember when and how I removed that file.) > > I just found a .swp file in /tmp and open it in binary mode. Thanks > god, the .swp file seems containing almost all of the codes I wrote in > this morning. But when I use "gvim -r foo.txt", although vim told me > it is recovered successfully, but no any code recovered, and I still > get NOTHING. > > I found the codes in the .swp file are stored in inversed order, so it > is really tedious to manually copy/paste to a new file. So I am > wondering if there is any solution to just get some codes back based > on the .swp file. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Best, > Zhaojun (Joseph) > -- Best, Zhaojun (Joseph)
-- Best, Zhaojun (Joseph)