On Tue, February 5, 2013 18:40, howard Schwartz wrote: > I am running gvim 7.3 on windows XP professional. I had worked on a file > called lastday.txt, and the directory it was in may have been overwritten. > Anyway, the file system reports a file called, > > LASTDAY_SWP > > When I execute the :sw <ENTER> command in gvim the file is listed as > > c:\dos\.LASTDAY_ > > When I try the recover command, :recover LASTDAY_ or :recover .LASTDAY_ > gvim reports it can not find a swap file for these filenames. When I try > the > same thing in a dos box with vim, vim reports the swap file was created on > a > PC or 16 bit system, so this version of vim can not recover the file. > > How do I recover this file? I am also mystified about the filename used > for > the swapfile: why the capitol letters for a filename originally written > with > small letters, and why the dot at the start of the name listed with the sw > command, and the underscore?
Have you tried vim -r .LASTDAY_ or even just vim -r? See also :h 11.2 regards, Christian -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
