Better message for gob error

diff --git a/internal/buffer/serialize.go b/internal/buffer/serialize.go
index 6bd0820024a8236617d4eb63c3b67534aa776a6b..ae1d411faa8d306c33d8f87c96bcc3eafeaa620e 100644 (file)
--- a/internal/buffer/serialize.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/serialize.go
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ func (b *Buffer) Serialize() error {
        }, false)
 }
 
+// Unserialize loads the buffer info from config.ConfigDir/buffers
 func (b *Buffer) Unserialize() error {
        // If either savecursor or saveundo is turned on, we need to load the serialized information
        // from ~/.config/micro/buffers
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ func (b *Buffer) Unserialize() error {
                decoder := gob.NewDecoder(file)
                err = decoder.Decode(&buffer)
                if err != nil {
-                       return errors.New(err.Error() + "\nYou may want to remove the files in ~/.config/micro/buffers (these files store the information for the 'saveundo' and 'savecursor' options) if this problem persists.")
+                       return errors.New(err.Error() + "\nYou may want to remove the files in ~/.config/micro/buffers (these files\nstore the information for the 'saveundo' and 'savecursor' options) if\nthis problem persists.\nThis may be caused by upgrading to version 2.0, and removing the 'buffers'\ndirectory will reset the cursor and undo history and solve the problem.")
                }
                if b.Settings["savecursor"].(bool) {
                        b.StartCursor = buffer.Cursor