From 615cdecfffabcc2ec814dc394f9a3d0763ecbca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Noah Friedman Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 10:48:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (After a Crash): Mention emacs-buffer.gdb as a recovery mechanism. --- man/trouble.texi | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/trouble.texi b/man/trouble.texi index df6a2763f3f..2c815926796 100644 --- a/man/trouble.texi +++ b/man/trouble.texi @@ -351,6 +351,13 @@ 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 +@file{etc/emacs-buffer.gdb} script with @code{gdb} to 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. + @node Emergency Escape @subsection Emergency Escape -- 2.39.5