Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxr.994 Posted: Tue Mar 20 12:56:21 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:21:36 EST References: <710@houxz.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 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.) -- ________ ( ) Don Stanwyck @( o o )@ 312-979-3062 ( || ) Cornet-367-3062 ( \__/ ) ihnp4!ihuxr!stanwyck (______) Bell Labs @ Naperville, IL