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From: benji@hpfcdq.HP.COM (Jeff Benjamin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi -> ex
Message-ID: <8170009@hpfcdq.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 17:06:30 GMT
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pete@othello.dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) writes:

> One can go from ex to vi by using the vi command within ex.  Is there a 
> way to go back to the ex session (and not just singular commands using ":")

Simply use "Q" (shift-q) while in command mode.  I use this occasionally
to do multiple-line ex commands from vi.

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Jeff Benjamin                         {ucbvax,hplabs}!hpfcla!benji
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