Safe? Some new meaning of the word of which I was previously unaware. [LWN.net]

Safe? Some new meaning of the word of which I was previously unaware.

Posted Sep 22, 2005 15:24 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888)
Parent article: Scribes 0.1 Released (GnomeDesktop)

... saving your files regularly,... and your files are always safe

Well, that depends on just where they get saved to. If it's some temporary name or they're using file versioning, then maybe. More than once I've managed to mess up an edit session and was thankful that the editor hadn't "helpfully" saved the munged version for me.

And probably more than once I've cursed a word processing program that saved my mangled document over the good copy when I inadvertently and automatically took the default on the save dialog when I exited the app.

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Safe? Some new meaning of the word of which I was previously unaware.

Posted Sep 23, 2005 11:47 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

vim creates a special .swp file for each edited file. Recovery is handled prety smartly. As a side-effect, though, you cannot edit the same file in two different sessions.