From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxz!houxi!hou5d!hou5a!hou5e!hou5c!hou5b!hou5f!npoiv!alice!sjb
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: small bug in "vi"
Article-I.D.: alice.1390
Posted: Mon Jan 10 19:53:15 1983
Received: Thu Jan 13 05:41:30 1983
References: ittvax.571

It all depends on your interpretation of a bug.  I don't consider
that a bug, for the mere reason that you are NOT telling vi to
REMOVE the file.  You are telling it to remove every line in the
file and then write out the buffer.  Well, the buffer now contains
no lines, so it writes out an empty file.  vi did exactly what it
was told to.  Personally, I wouldn't want it to remove the file in
that case; if I did, I would have used rm, not vi.