Vi bug: saves too often

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <10671 at stb.UUCP> michael at stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
|>Does anyone have a way to stop vi from saving a file if you use a shell
|>escape or if you type :n?
|>
|>Normally vi will not save a file out unless you say :w. On other systems
|>if you say :n, you will be told "Has been modified--use :n!"; if you
|>say :!, you will be told "[modifications not written out]". On the
|>unix-pc, both of these will write it out even if you didn't want it to.
|>

Yes, stick this in your ~/.exrc file.

set noautowrite                 -or-  set noaw

Then you'll get your desired effect.

-Lenny
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