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From: cur022@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Message-ID: <8459@zodiac.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Nov 89 12:34:14 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl> <1989Nov15.202718.12762@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <6995@ficc.uu.net>
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In article <6995@ficc.uu.net>, peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
> You can't edit another file without quitting the file you're working on and
> going back to DCL or MCR.

Yes you can. Create another buffer, read the second file into it, edit
it, and use WRITE to write it out...in fact, you can edit several files
at a time with this.
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