Re: Lost wiki page

On Tue 31 Aug 2021 at 23:44:02 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:03:55PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> >I created a (quite extensive) wiki page. I did not save it and then
> >foolishly closed Firefox down. On restarting, I do not get the page
> >back.
> >
> >Can I recover it?
> 
> If you saved it *at all* we can look on the wiki server for any trace,
> but if not you'll be stuck with whatever you have on your machine. The
> browser *might* still have the file in its disk cache if you're lucky.
> 
> I tend to avoid doing non-trivial wiki edits directly inside the
> browser if I can avoid it, for exactly this kind of reason. You could
> just cut and paste to a browser locally, or if you're likely to do a
> lot of work like this then there are Firefox extensions. I used to use
> It's All Text to do that, then had to shift to Textern when the
> massive changed in Firefox internals changed how extensions worked.
> 
> Textern is a little fiddly to set up, but largely works well for me.

When I had calmed down I took a closer lokk. It turned out the wiki
had saved my three day's work as a revision. Good old MoinMoin. I
sometimes do the writing in vim and transfer it. Your suggestions
and response are much appreciated.

Phew!