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.
--
"I HATE arbitrary limits, especially when |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
they're small." (Stephen Savitzky) |maart at cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart
More information about the Comp.unix.questions
mailing list