Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ukma!david From: david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Vi isn't nasty enough, so user looses lines Message-ID: <2073@ukma.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 22:48:30 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2073 Posted: Tue Aug 20 22:48:30 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 03:41:45 EDT Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 21 Index: Everybody's favorite text editor. Problem: Vi allows users to :wq without comment when they've deleted part of the file and written it to something else. This can result in lost files and confused novices. Repeat-by: Edit a file. Delete part of the file. (dG) Write the result to another file (:w junk). Exit by either typing :wq or ZZ. Notice that the original is shorter. Find backup tape. Fix: Add more nastiness to vi. :-) -- --- David Herron --- ARPA-> ukma!david@ANL-MCS.ARPA --- UUCP-> {ucbvax,unmvax,boulder,oddjob}!anlams!ukma!david --- {ihnp4,decvax,ucbvax}!cbosgd!ukma!david Hackin's in me blood. My mother was known as Miss Hacker before she married!