From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!teklabs!terryl Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: small bug in vi Article-I.D.: teklabs.1660 Posted: Mon Jan 10 20:29:51 1983 Received: Wed Jan 12 03:19:04 1983 Actually, it's a little more subtle than was reported (and yes it is a bug because vi does not write the buffer back out, so the file does stay the same). The subtlety is that it is the action of deleting the last line in the file that changes vi's idea of if the file was modified or not. The following sequence of commands produces the same results (this being in ex command mode): 1,$-1d 1d (or $d, etc.) If one then quits the editor without writing the file out, ex/vi will let you do that. Very strange indeed!!!!! Terry Laskodi of Tektronix