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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: :wq (Re: One user's editor wish list)
Message-ID: <6.EAPNE@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 1 Apr 91 19:22:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar25.191821.11019@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> <2900@wn1.sci.kun.nl> <1991Mar29.160622.5445@informix.com> <1991Apr1.094106.26188@cbnewsk.att.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1991Apr1.094106.26188@cbnewsk.att.com> noraa@cbnewsk.att.com (aaron.l.hoffmeyer) writes:
> The same thing happened to me in 1987 - the last I used ZZ also.  I tell
> everyone to use :wq or :w or :q or :next or :rewind etc. - tell vi
> exactly what you want to do.

But that's what I want VI to do: write the file if it's modified, then
exit. I often move around between files without modifying them, and don't
want to write them (and thus touch them for "make"s viewpoint) if I haven't
changed them.

When I *do* a vi -r I write to a new file name anyway.
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