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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
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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.

		:-)
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Hackin's in me blood.  My mother was known as Miss Hacker before she married!