Mercurial > emacs
changeset 62897:6181dbed8947
(After a Crash): Mention emacs-buffer.gdb as a recovery mechanism.
| author | Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com> |
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| date | Mon, 30 May 2005 10:48:33 +0000 |
| parents | 63b25cade3fb |
| children | e7e2bd704ba1 |
| files | man/trouble.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/trouble.texi Mon May 30 10:38:35 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/trouble.texi Mon May 30 10:48:33 2005 +0000 @@ -351,6 +351,13 @@ 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