Recover overwritten file
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Created: July 23, 2002 Complexity: basic Author: Little Dragon Minimum version: 5.7 Karma: 160/53 Imported from: Tip#286
I was once editing a file and wanted to test something. The test was meant to add a line at the end of the file, from outside Vim. All was fine, but instead of >> to append the output to the file, I wrote > to replace the file with the output by mistake.
If you happen to do something like that, the solution is:
:recover
This command only works if you have a swap file. If you do not have a swap file, the recover command will not work.
