Questions tagged [recover]
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automatically recover last session when it has unsaved files
Occasionally it happens that I forget to start recover-session after a crash. I would like to automate the following: each time Emacs starts up, check if there are unsaved files in the last session, ...
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Can I recover the contents of a scratch buffer?
Using Ubuntu 22.04. I accidentally closed a scratch buffer that I had notes in. Can I recover those contents?
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I need to restore the *scratch* buffer from the last time I used emacs even though I killed it and had to restart
I was using emacs (XEmacs actually) and using the scratch buffer to experiment with regular expressions for a regex-replace operation that was giving me trouble. That has nothing to do with the ...
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How to use `recover-session` and `dired-omit-mode` in Emacs 26 and lower?
Using Emacs 26.1, I have enabled dired-omit-mode globally with (add-hook 'dired-mode-hook #'dired-omit-mode). When using recover-session, I don't see any files. How to fix this? Creating a .dir-...
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Emacs recover-session: which session should I recover?
My OS locked up while using Emacs. So I hard boot, reopen Emacs, and M-x recover-session. The OS locked up at Jul 6 3:05, there are two autosave sessions at 03:04 Which of the two 3:04 sessions should ...
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Recovering multiple files
After a crash, I can recover-this-file, but, if I don't know which of many files may have been unsaved at the time of the crash, how can I find out? Can I recover them all in one go?
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