Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:10:04 -0800 (PST) From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/46295: please add information to Nvi recovery email Message-ID: <200212162110.gBGLA4Q5064053@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/46295; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/46295: please add information to Nvi recovery email Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:05:26 +0000 On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:56:53AM -0800, Rich Morin wrote: > >On Sun Nov 24 13:08:39 2002, the user rdm was editing a file > >named About_Us.htm on the machine cfcl.com, when it was > >saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the > >changes to this file using the -r option to vi: > > > > vi -r About_Us.htm > > It might be useful to add some text to this message, saying that > /var/tmp/vi.recover is the default recovery file directory. (I > know this is in the man page for vi, but an explicit note would > also be useful.) I'm not sure of the motivation here. All the user really needs to know is how to get their file back, which they've been told. Ceri -- I am the greataxe of the Dwarf Father! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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