Re: Recovering data after massive deletions

On 2 January 2014, Eric Smith <es@fruitcom.com> wrote:
> Due to a faulty keyboard, an `x' was sent repeatedly to the
> terminal with a file open in vim.
> The large file was reduced to a few lines as a result.
[...]

Not a direct answer to your question, but there's a trick you can
use to avoid this kind of problems in the future:

set undodir=~/.vim/undo
set undofile

See ":help undo-persistence" for more details.

You might also run something like this from a daily cron job, to
keep old undo files from piling up:

find "$HOME"/.vim/undo -type f -name '%home%*' -mtime +30 -print0 | \
xargs -0 rm -f

/lcd

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