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
and that the Emacs executable was not stripped of its debugging
symbols.
- To use this script, run @code{gdb} with the file name of your
-Emacs executable and the file name of the core dump, e.g. @samp{gdb
+ To use this script, run @code{gdb} with the file name of your Emacs
+executable and the file name of the core dump, e.g. @samp{gdb
/usr/bin/emacs core.emacs}. At the @code{(gdb)} prompt, load the
recovery script: @samp{source /usr/src/emacs/etc/emacs-buffer.gdb}.
-You can now use the commands @code{ybuffer-list} and
-@code{ysave-buffer} to list and save buffers. The @code{ysave-buffer}
-command takes a buffer number (as listed by @code{ybuffer-list}) and a
-file name to which to write the buffer contents. You should use a
-file name which does not already exist; no backups of the previous
-contents of the file will be saved, if any.
+Then type the command @code{ybuffer-list} to see which buffers are
+available. For each buffer, it lists a buffer number. To save a
+buffer, use @code{ysave-buffer}; you specify the buffer number, and
+the file name to write that buffer into. You should use a file name
+which does not already exist; if the file does exist, the script does
+not make make a backup of its old contents.
@node Emergency Escape
@subsection Emergency Escape