# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1117880326 0 # Node ID b9a3bc12a80f388f074d123f9cacc3f0f9c3c0f7 # Parent decbfd59fbadf2f9c13f608d744a35c23bfd15a7 (After a Crash): Polish previous change. diff -r decbfd59fbad -r b9a3bc12a80f man/trouble.texi --- a/man/trouble.texi Sat Jun 04 09:49:25 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/trouble.texi Sat Jun 04 10:18:46 2005 +0000 @@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ 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 @@ -360,16 +359,16 @@ and that the Emacs executable was not stripped of its debugging symbols. - To use this script, run @code{gdb} with the file name of your -Emacs executable and the file name of the core dump, e.g. @samp{gdb + To use this script, run @code{gdb} with the file name of your Emacs +executable and the file name of the core dump, e.g. @samp{gdb /usr/bin/emacs core.emacs}. At the @code{(gdb)} prompt, load the recovery script: @samp{source /usr/src/emacs/etc/emacs-buffer.gdb}. -You can now use the commands @code{ybuffer-list} and -@code{ysave-buffer} to list and save buffers. The @code{ysave-buffer} -command takes a buffer number (as listed by @code{ybuffer-list}) and a -file name to which to write the buffer contents. You should use a -file name which does not already exist; no backups of the previous -contents of the file will be saved, if any. +Then type the command @code{ybuffer-list} to see which buffers are +available. For each buffer, it lists a buffer number. To save a +buffer, use @code{ysave-buffer}; you specify the buffer number, and +the file name to write that buffer into. You should use a file name +which does not already exist; if the file does exist, the script does +not make make a backup of its old contents. @node Emergency Escape @subsection Emergency Escape