Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!botter!star.cs.vu.nl!maart From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re^2: Oh boy! I guess it's time for the VI REFERENCE again... Message-ID: <2155@solo9.cs.vu.nl> Date: 15 Mar 89 00:29:44 GMT References: <12406@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <958@starfish.Convergent.COM> <2386@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <415@corpane.UUCP> <37287@think.UUCP> <2145@solo4.cs.vu.nl> <223@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lines: 13 meyering@cs.utexas.edu (Jim Meyering) writes: \In article <2145@solo4.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes: \ [description of vi commands deleted] \>X:wq | write the file and quit vi \ Use of this ex command should be avoided (at least in Sun version 3.7). \ The problem is that it attempts to write the buffer and, *regardless \ of the success or failure* of that operation, simply quits. I'll change the reference. Thanks. -- Those against Rushdie haven't |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam: learned anything from the Dark Ages. |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart