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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
- Subject: Re: WARNING!!!! major problem with vi
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.164717.5646@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
- References: <1992Aug14.141659.328@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Aug15.155532.1217@spuddy.uucp>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 16:47:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.155532.1217@spuddy.uucp> sweh@spuddy.uucp (Stephen Harris) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu> 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.
- >>
- >>I've heard lots of other programs do this too.
- >
- >Strange...I don't see a smiley, but this *has* to be a joke...doesn't it?
- >
- >Anyway, in vi :q means QUIT. If you have modifed your file then it moans
- >at you, and doesn't let you quit. If you do :q! then it means QUIT and ABORT
- >any changes.
-
- We should all be using DisplayWriter. Now, there's an editor from which
- you cannot escape w/o saving your work. In fact, I think it may
- actually write the changes as you make them. Now, there's perfect safety.
-
- But, the real problem is that silly power switch. (Not to mention the
- reset button that some machines have. Note that no IBM machine has a
- reset button - they know better than you do...)
-
- ----
- The original poster would have been better off picking on COMMAND.COM,
- rather than vi. I mean, do you know that if you type:
-
- del importnt.fil
-
- at the DOS prompt, you could lose all of the stuff in importnt.fil ?
-
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