changeset 62897:6181dbed8947

(After a Crash): Mention emacs-buffer.gdb as a recovery mechanism.
author Noah Friedman <friedman@splode.com>
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