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From: sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Suspending vi
Message-ID: <29917@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 23:09:07 GMT
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>(I'm not familiar with vi so I don't know what would cause this;
>however, it doesn't seem to be the default behavior.)

This behaviour of vi [automatically writing out files when you ^Z]
is called "autowrite", and is set with ":set autowrite" or ":set aw".

It shouldn't be anybody's default; check your EXINIT variable or .exrc
file.  You can turn it off with ":set noaw", which is handy if you're
trying to suspend a vi session and the file can't be written.