# Vimrecover 1.0.0 Released

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vimrecover-1-0-0-released/140160>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 11, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vimrecover-1-0-0-released/140160 "2008-06-11T13:54:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vimrecover-1-0-0-released/140160/1 "2008-06-11T13:54:35Z")

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vimrecover version 1.0.0 has been released!

- [http://rubyforge.org/projects/vimrecover/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/vimrecover/)

This package provides a handy command to help you recover from Vim  
recovery files.

Vim makes .swp files as you edit your files so that if an edit session  
crashes you  
can recover the latest changes you haven’t saved. Unfortunately  
though, there’s no  
easy way to compare a saved file with the recovery file, so if a  
session does crash  
you are often left with many .swp files that you have to save under  
new names one  
by one and compare to the original files.

vimrecover searches for swap files in the current directory, converts  
them to  
files that can be compared to the original files, lets you compare them  
with  
meld, deletes them if they are the same as the original files and  
generally  
helps you clean up the mess.

vimrecover is an interactive command-line program.

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 3:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vimrecover-1-0-0-released/140160/2 "2008-06-11T15:11:06Z")

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:51:02PM +0900, Leslie V. wrote:

> vimrecover version 1.0.0 has been released!
> 
> - [http://rubyforge.org/projects/vimrecover/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/vimrecover/)
> 
> This package provides a handy command to help you recover from Vim  
> recovery files.  
> […]  
> vimrecover is an interactive command-line program.

You’re working too hard. In vim :help DiffOrig

–Greg

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**Author:** ![leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@leslieviljoen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/leslieviljoen)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 3:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vimrecover-1-0-0-released/140160/3 "2008-06-11T15:39:23Z")

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Gregory S.  
[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> You’re working too hard. In vim :help DiffOrig  
> Hmmm, and I had been searching for something like that for weeks.  
> I think vimrecover will end up being faster still.

Although it’s hardcoded to use Meld at the moment and  
I really need to fix that.