On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:44:09PM -0500, Samuel Padgett wrote:
> I sometimes ssh into my machine from work and use Mutt. The
> connection through the firewall, however, is, uh, a bit tenuous
> and often gets dropped. Sometimes this happens when I am
> composing a message. Is there a good way to recover these
> compositions and pick up where I left off?
>
> I'm using Vim as my editor.
Depending on how vim was terminated, you might be able to use 'vim -r'
to recover the file. See the man page.
A better way to handle this is to run screen on your work machine. Then
when your connection drops, simply re-logon to your work machine, run
'screen -r' to re-attach the screen session, and pick up where you left
off. Everything will be just as it was when the connection dropped. It
is _so_ nice! See
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/screen/
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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