From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!qubix!msc
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: vi bug?
Article-I.D.: qubix.196
Posted: Wed Apr  6 09:49:36 1983
Received: Thu Apr  7 02:57:25 1983

	I have been caught several times by what appears to be a bug in
	vi.  The problem shows up when I am using vi to edit a temporary
	file such as you get after invoking vi with the ~v command from
	mail.  When I try to exit from vi with the ZZ command, I get the
	message "file exists; use w! to overwrite".

	I have no idea what causes this to happen and I am wondering if
	anyone else has noticed this.  It happens about 10% of the times
	I use the ~v command.  It may possibly have some connection with
	doing a :r command, at sometime in the edit, to include the contents
	of another file.

				Mark Callow
				Qubix Graphic Systems Inc.
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