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From: ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi and :n
Message-ID: <1370006@vantage.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 90 16:48:07 GMT
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Organization: Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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Thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry about vi and :n. (I had
asked:
>>  I use vi a great deal, and often use it with several files in
>>  sequence in the command line (so I can :n along the series):
>>  	$vi file1 file2 file3 ...
>>  
>>  My question: most of the time when I execute :n to go to the next
>>  file, the next file comes up on the screen at its beginning (which
>>  makes sense!). But sometimes, it comes up in the middle somewhere ...
>>  
>>  Does anyone know why this happens (so that presumably I could use the
>>  feature on purpose)?

And learning about control-^ was great! I had not been aware of that command.

I also discovered that (at least on our version of vi), if you do a
	$vi file1 file2 file3
and file2 does not exist, and while you are in file1 you :w to create file2,
when you :n to file2 vi puts you where you were when you created it. I am
impressed!!

Thanks again for the help and education.

Ray Liere
Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation
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