wq in vi (was: FILE descriptor <-> FILE pointers)
    Maarten Litmaath 
    maart at cs.vu.nl
       
    Tue Jun 20 01:12:56 AEST 1989
    
    
  
kannan at cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (R. Kannan) writes:
\...
\:wq
A dangerous command: in some versions vi does NOT check if the write operation
has been successful, but always quits.
Use `ZZ' or `:x' instead.
Is it time again for the Vi Reference? Followups to comp.editors.
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