Thank you all for your enlightening responses. My problem is gone (it's was a PEBKAC).
Here's what happened: I edited a file, typed something in, then decided that the file is better saved in a different directory so I moved the file to that other directory. I typed more stuff into the file and save it. I don't remember the exact steps I took to do the file move. Move forward a few hours later, I open the file in its new location and I only see the first content that I typed in before, not the latest! So I thought I must have made this mistake: <thinking> 1. Edited a file, saved (without quitting vim). 2. In another terminal, *copied* the file to its new location. 3. Edited the file (in the same vim session), added more content, saved. 4. In that other terminal, I deleted the 'old' file. </thinking> When I opened the file in its new location I see the old content. At this point my thought was *!#*!#&!...@w!y&#*!&. Then I remember that vim have a swap file and in that old directory there's exactly one swap file left over from some previous vim editing session. I created a new file with the same name as the file that the swap file is associated with but when I opened it in vim vim just created a new swapfile, 'ignoring' the old one. That's when I decided to ask the list. My attempts at using the :recover command failed (after creating a file with the same name as what the swap file is associated with) with a message saying that the swap file is broken. That was last Friday. Fast forward to today (Monday): Frustrated by this I decided enough is enough. I gotta handle it like a man: Don't fret over the lost bytes. So I proceeded with deleting the stale swap file. Then I go to the new directory where the file was moved to and opened the file and vim happily told me that a swap file exist for that file and when I choose recover *blam* the latest content of that file that I thought is gone forever is there, every single character! Heheh.. if that is not a case of PEBKAC then I don't know what is :) nazri. P/S: If you are curious the file contains usernames and passwords for "fake" gmail accounts to test out the web app in my $day_job. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
