Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ki4pv.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner From: tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: Vi isn't nasty enough, so user looses lines Message-ID: <436@ki4pv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 09:21:28 EDT Article-I.D.: ki4pv.436 Posted: Fri Aug 23 09:21:28 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:48:13 EDT References: <2073@ukma.UUCP> Organization: CompuData South, DeLand Lines: 17 ] description of user deleting lines, saving part of file, doing ] normal exit (":wq") from vi to save whole file, not getting warning. It sounds like a normal job of work being done on a file. Perhaps part of a program being ripped out, as it the code it was there to debug turned out not to contain the problem; the total job being finished in the normal manner. What kind of warning should the user get? Is this warning to be applied to all work done in the editor? Maybe I need to eat more of those fine powdermilk biscuits, but do we need a warning like (reverse-video on the line below -- add flashing and bells too) "You are about to save your changes -- use wq! to really do it"? --Tanner Andrews, KI4PV uucp: ...!decvax!ucf-cs!ki4pv!tanner