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From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Vi bug: saves too often
Message-ID: <652@icus.islp.ny.us>
Date: 2 Apr 89 06:11:52 GMT
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Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano)
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In article <10671@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
|>Does anyone have a way to stop vi from saving a file if you use a shell
|>escape or if you type :n?
|>
|>Normally vi will not save a file out unless you say :w. On other systems
|>if you say :n, you will be told "Has been modified--use :n!"; if you
|>say :!, you will be told "[modifications not written out]". On the
|>unix-pc, both of these will write it out even if you didn't want it to.
|>

Yes, stick this in your ~/.exrc file.

set noautowrite                 -or-  set noaw

Then you'll get your desired effect.

-Lenny
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