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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   they're small."  (Stephen Savitzky)    |maart at cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart



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