Re: Fatal error (11). Emacs/ Linux hosed my very long document.

[Mike Cox]

"Rick" <none@none.com> wrote in message
pan.2004.09.16.23.37.32.254970@none.com">news:pan.2004.09.16.23.37.32.254970@none.com...
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:37:56 -0700, Mike Cox wrote:
>
> > I recently switched to xemacs as my default word processor so I could
> > do formatting in TEX for a very long document.  Most recently I've
> > been using Microsoft Word, the latest version.  I switched because I
> > thought that emacs had perfect stability and no crashes.  My
> > perception was formed due to the constant FSF/GPL/Linux advocacy
> > promoted on slashdot and all the comp newsgroups.
> >
> >(snip)
> >
> > Much to my dismay, as I was working on my very long review (about 100
> > pages typed), xemacs core dumped on me.  I was unable to recover
> > anything.  I didn't save my document because I never expected emacs to
> > core dump.
> >
> > linux:~ # xemacs
> >
> > Fatal error (11).
> >
> > Your files have been auto-saved.
> > Use `M-x recover-session' to recover them.
>
> hmmmmm .....

Tried it, didn't work.