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Article #12524funny vi happenings
From: Cecil N. Jones
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 04:28
Date: Sat, 06 May 1989 04:28
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A funny thing happened today while editing a file with vi (on a SUN4, OS4.0.1). When I was finished editing, I typed :wq to save the file with changes. This is what I normally do, and in fact had done it about 10 minutes earlier on the same file. This time vi gave me the message: filename exists type :w! filename to overwrite. I did this, and the next time I edited the file the :wq worked the way it always has, that is it went ahead and overwrote the file as usual. Any ideas? Cecil N. Jones Amoco Production Co. Tulsa, OK @apctrc.uucp The opinions expressed are solely my own.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: apctrc!gpb6!zcnj01@uunet.uu.net (Cecil N. Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: funny vi happenings Keywords: Software Message-ID: <805@apctrc.UUCP> Date: 6 May 89 04:28:51 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research Center Lines: 11 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 19 Apr 89 14:46:42 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 269, message 21 of 23