From 5cf98ab4b3a736ab2df3140f9bde2f66e8f241fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 10:18:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (After a Crash): Polish previous change. --- man/trouble.texi | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/trouble.texi b/man/trouble.texi index ff846821ff2..da14f25568f 100644 --- a/man/trouble.texi +++ b/man/trouble.texi @@ -351,7 +351,6 @@ visits the file but gets the text from the auto-save file. 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 @@ -360,16 +359,16 @@ retrieve them from a core dump--provided that a core dump was saved, 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 -- 2.39.5