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From: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Undocumented vi feature
Message-ID: <220@astra.necisa.oz>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 23:18:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: astra.220
Posted: Wed Jun 24 23:18:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 08:41:57 EDT
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Reply-To: dave@astra.necisa.oz (Dave Horsfall)
Organization: NEC Information Systems Australia
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Keywords: vi/ex commands in a text file

Discovered the same thing myself when my passwd file had "alex"
in it.  Complained bitterly to the supplier, who promised to
remove this obnoxious "feature" in the next release.  They did too.

A pox upon people who encourage "features" like this!  You can hardly
make a file un-editable with :q! somewhere, since you've got "ed".
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