Well, vi has a compatibility mode, which makes it behave like vanilla vi.
But vim is soooo much better, that I've long since forgotten the details
---except for the key one that fubar-ing a file makes :q! your savior.
Cheers,
-Dan
On 10 Mar 2011, at 21:16, bill lam wrote:
> Yes, that may be a bug in vi. I use nvi which claimed to be bug-for-bug
> compatible with the original vi.
>
> Sometimes I found vim saying oldest changes by repeated undo, yet
> it prompted for saving for :q and must quit with :q!
>
> Чтв, 10 Мар 2011, Dan T. Abell писал(а):
>> Hmmm. Most vi now seems to be vim, and vim definitely
>> recognizes undo---to the point that if you undo all
>> changes, it does *not* insist that you save on exit.
>>
>>
>> On 10 Mar 2011, at 16:26, bill lam wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is expected, because dirty flag is set if any editing has
>>> happened, and dirty flag is not reset by undo. At least vi also behaves
>>> in the same manner.
>>
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