Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!fortune!tierney From: tierney@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: vi question - (nf) Message-ID: <2811@fortune.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 23:05:54 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.2811 Posted: Wed Mar 21 23:05:54 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:22:42 EST Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 33 #R:houxz:-71000:fortune:26900032:000:558 fortune!tierney Mar 21 17:43:00 1984 ***** fortune:net.unix / houxz!halle1 / 6:28 am Mar 20, 1984 Is there any way to switch to a file, do some editing, then come back to the original file? I know that :n file2 file1 will work, but that can get inconvenient when long paths must be typed in. ---------- Why, of course there is! try: (edit, edit, edit, etc. file 1) :w #save file 1 changes :e file2 #edit file2 :e# #edit the alternate file (file 1) :e XXX edits XXX :e# edits the alternate file and you can switch back and forth. Wonderful. charlie tierney