i'm sometimes developing code and in the process manage to mess it up where it isn't backed up or in any other spot, but i do have this habit of keeping a terminal open with text and i sometimes cat or scroll files there so as long as i don't shut down the system i can go there and cut and paste things.
today this saved me a mild panic as i'd written some code and then thought i'd copied it, but then i'd clobbered that copy doing something else. *whew* and yes, i do make backups here or there, but sometimes i work faster than i do that. i also use git, but i don't always stash temporary copies all the time. today i actually did make a temporary copy, but that copy i clobbered on purpose and then said "oops" :) i started looking at undelete file utilities and then said, hey perhaps i have this scrolled in another terminal... now the really nice feature would be if i actually made this into a system where my vi editor would automagically scroll it for me in some window... that will be for some other time. i don't want to get sidetracked any more for the moment. gardens are sidetracking me enough... just some thoughts in passing. :) songbird
