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From: woolsey@nsc.nsc.com (Jeff Woolsey)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: wq in vi (was: FILE descriptor <-> FILE pointers)
Keywords: FILE descriptors, FILE pointers, fdopen, fileno ...
Message-ID: <12189@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 21 Jun 89 17:58:33 GMT
References: <148@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu.edu> <2781@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: woolsey@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <2781@solo8.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>A dangerous command: in some versions vi does NOT check if the write operation
>has been successful, but always quits.
>Use `ZZ' or `:x' instead.

I cannot let this go by unchallenged.  ZZ is very dangerous if you
used the -r flag on vi, and make no further changes.  It does NOT write
out your file, AND it removes the file in /tmp.  I lost a two-hour
editing session on a new file I was composing that way.  Never again!
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