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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: why does vi insist on deleting to big chunks of my precious code???
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.083504.9666@pegasus.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 08:35:04 GMT
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>I have an intermittent problem with 'vi' under 386/ix 2.0.2, where vi will
>suddenly decide to delete every precious handcrafted character in my file
>from the cursor right down to EOF. It then deliberately and maliciously
>leaves me in insert mode so that doing an "undo" wont get it back.

No sense giving up just 'cause undo doesn't work!  Try:

	<esc>"1P
or
	<esc>"2P

etc.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com