I've always just tossed a comment onto the line before exiting vi edit mode
to prevent execution...


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering how I could discard (not execute) a line after having
> loaded it into vi (fc -e vi, or "v" for brevity in vi-mode).
>
> :wq, :q, :q! - all of them execute the line.
>
> I'm feeling really stupid...
>
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