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- From: adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais)
- 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: <1992Aug17.023216.16330@u.washington.edu>
- Sender: adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Aug13.202720.22761@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Aug14.141659.328@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 02:32:16 GMT
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- >The other day I was editing a file with vi and I quit using :q!
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- >I lost ALL my changes!!!! I belive this to be a major problem with vi.
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- >I've heard lots of other programs do this too.
- >--
- >nyet@cco.caltech.edu
- >nyet@aerospace.aero.org
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- Is this a joke or what? Some kind of test-post to weed out the morons?
- :q! _means_ quit and ignore changes, doesn't it?
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- If it's a joke, I get it. If it's not, one of us needs to do some learning.
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- Erick.
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