On 20 February 2017 at 19:02, Kang-Che Sung <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Yousong Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 13 February 2017 at 11:00, Yousong Zhou <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> This is the behaviour observed with standard vim and busybox vi of at
>>> least 1.22.1. It was changed with commit "32afd3a vi: some
>>> simplifications" which happened before 1.23.0.
>>>
>>> Mistyping filename on command line happens fairly often and it's better
>>> we restore the old behaviour to avoid a few unnecessary flash writes and
>>> sometimes efforts of debugging bugs caused by those unneeded stray
>>> files...
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>> editors/vi.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Hello, list, any thoughts on this one?
>
> Would you please show us a "steps to reproduce" in order for us to
> demonstrate which problem you are trying to address, and what're the
> behavior differences.
Here is a step-by-step example
1. shell command: vi file-not-yet-there
2. vi command: ZZ
3. shell command: ls -l file-not-yet-there
With vim and vi of busybox 1.22.1, file-not-yet-there will not be
created. But this is not the case with current busybox vi.
yousong
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