In article <[email protected]>,
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> wrote:
>Then there was this another piece of hatefulness^Wsoftware where
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>exit
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>meant "save without saving changes" and
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>quit
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>meant "save and save the changes". Or maybe it was the other way round.
vi.
x -- save, then quit.
q -- quit, or whine bitterly about needing to save.
v*m (at least the one that ships as vi on MacOS) is precisely as
hateful as you describe. Well, actually it's MORE hateful, because
when you type `:exit', it just exits without telling you that it's
going to commit your changes. A real vi, when confronted with
`:exit', will truculently inform you that it doesn't know what
`exit' is, and will force you to leave the silent e off before it
saves your changes.
Vim is a pretty hateful beast, and `:exit' is just lagniappe.
-david parsons
