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I'm pleased to report that it has save my ass two or three times.

• ajross 3y ago
  Ditto. It's rare, but I've had situations where I've e.g. "git reset --hard" in the wrong directory or otherwise clobbered editted context, and the fact that the editor leaves a side channel to recover from is really helpful. I'd be terrified to turn this off, and in practice none of the tools I use have trouble with these files, so I don't see the advantage.