Vim / Neovim CLI Startup, Diff, and Recovery/Write recovered contents elsewhere

Save a recovered buffer to a safe path first.

Section: Recovery and swap workflows

Write recovered contents elsewhere

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:write recovered-file.txt
Explanation

A smart first step before cleaning up stale swap files.

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