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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Postnews and vi -- odd behavior
Message-ID: <756@turtlevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 03:04:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: turtleva.756
Posted: Mon May  6 03:04:22 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 7-May-85 21:29:59 EDT
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Reply-To: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
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Organization: CADLINC, Inc. @ Menlo Park, CA
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Summary: vi's ZZ is broken

In article <10365@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>Sometimes, when running postnews, I want to save a copy of my posting 
>before submitting it. I am in vi, finishing the composition and editing.
>I do ":w filename" and it works OK, and the screen still shows the text
>of the posting. I then do "ZZ" and the system responds with:
>"File not modified - no message posted" and then the shell prompt appears.

The problem is not in postnews or any of the news software, but in vi
itself.  There are various circumstances under which "ZZ" will not
write out a file before exiting.  I lost several hours worth of editing
this way, and haven't used the two-character "ZZ" command since,
preferring the predictable behavior of the three-character sequence
":wq" instead.
-- 

Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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