Mercurial > emacs
changeset 10698:9dc3f4fc6b7f
Talk about auto save.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 08 Feb 1995 06:29:29 +0000 |
| parents | d2fd1a6288b4 |
| children | 2713f4ff634a |
| files | etc/TUTORIAL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/TUTORIAL Wed Feb 08 06:09:08 1995 +0000 +++ b/etc/TUTORIAL Wed Feb 08 06:29:29 1995 +0000 @@ -558,6 +558,24 @@ after the cursor. +* AUTO SAVE +----------- + +When you have made changes in a file, but you have not saved them yet, +they could be lost if your computer crashes. To protect you from +this, Emacs writes "auto save" files periodically. The auto save file +name as a # at the beginning and the end; for example, if your file is +named "hello.c", its auto save file's name is "#hello.c#". When you +save the file in the normal way, its auto save file is no longer +necessary so Emacs deletes it. + +If the computer crashes, you can recover your auto-saved editing by +finding the file normally (the file you were editing, not the auto +save file) and then typing M-x recover file<return>. When it asks for +confirmation, type yes<return> to go ahead and recover the auto-save +data. + + * MODE LINE -----------