On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 14:50 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
vim apparentlt doesn't do it: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl#5.9
Though, if I've had a crash, or some other interruption (e.g. loss of network connection). When I restart vim to edit the same file, or re-open the same file in vim, it finds the swap file it was previously using, and offers to let me recover from where I left off.