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| author | Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> | 2005-05-30 10:48:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> | 2005-05-30 10:48:33 +0000 |
| commit | 615cdecfffabcc2ec814dc394f9a3d0763ecbca7 (patch) | |
| tree | f1af21eee74f6687f54d0cf3ae45de588ce87040 /man/trouble.texi | |
| parent | 0854cf4287fcc2d76c1a7b7b0336786a8b647613 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-615cdecfffabcc2ec814dc394f9a3d0763ecbca7.tar.gz | |
(After a Crash): Mention emacs-buffer.gdb as a recovery mechanism.
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diff --git a/man/trouble.texi b/man/trouble.texi index df6a2763f3f..2c815926796 100644 --- a/man/trouble.texi +++ b/man/trouble.texi @@ -351,6 +351,13 @@ visits the file but gets the text from the auto-save file. recover are present in Emacs buffers. You should then save them. Only this---saving them---updates the files themselves. + As a last resort, if you had buffers with content which were not +associated with any files, or if the autosave was not recent enough to +have recorded important changes, you can use the +@file{etc/emacs-buffer.gdb} script with @code{gdb} to retrieve them +from a core dump--provided that a core dump was saved, and that the +emacs executable was not stripped of its debugging symbols. + @node Emergency Escape @subsection Emergency Escape |