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- From: gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka)
- Subject: Re: WARNING!!!! major problem with vi and possibly every other app around! (was: help I don't understand write caches like smartdrive 3.1)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.012409.27976@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Summary: It was Commisioner Gorden. He says the Joker is back in town.
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Aug15.074707.24279@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Aug15.163252.31677@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 01:24:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.163252.31677@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:
- >gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
- >>nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
- >>>The other day I was editing a file with vi and I quit using :q!
- >>>I lost ALL my changes!!!! I belive this to be a major problem with vi.
- >>(suppressing urge to say RTFM ...)
- >>You are either new to vi or left your terminal unattended.
- >
- >Ring ring...Ring ring. Hold on, I have to get the clue phone. Hello...Greg,
- >it's for you.
-
- This is brilliant humor. I believe I'm still laughing inside. [NOT]
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- >
- >Liu was kidding. He waas making a comment along the lines of "No program is
- >foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."
- >
- >Michael
- >
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- I'm impressed, Michael. Your powers of perception are a bit better than mine.
- You were able to read Liu's mind, and see that he was making a deep comment.
- Foolish me thought that he sounded frustrated because he had unintentionally
- hit "quit without saving" when he wanted "save then quit". I was unable to
- decipher the philosophical yet sarcastic content of "... a major problem
- with vi."
-
- Seriously, the "No program..." comment is very good, but you made it, not he.
- Many of us have quit without saving while trying to learn the idiosyncracies
- of a new editor. I simply pointed Liu in the right direction, in case he
- wasn't "kidding".
-
- >--
- >Michael Kaufman | I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on
- > kaufman | fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in
- > @eecs.nwu.edu | the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be
- > | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die. Roy Batty
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- Greg Sroka
- gsroka@leland.stanford.edu
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