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From: stanwyck@ihuxr.UUCP (Don Stanwyck)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: vi question
Message-ID: <994@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 12:56:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 12:56:21 1984
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The way I switch to another file, edit, then return, is:

:w
:!vi file2

:wq


It works just fine.  (The first write is optional, but without it you are
risking losing work if the system crashes or you lose yourself somewhere.)
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