"111 fewer lines in file after visual" ????

Ivan Warner,G44 SSTF,6632, iwarner at zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk
Wed Aug 2 20:38:02 AEST 1989


>From article <2119 at zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>, by skilbane at zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk (Steven Kilbane):
 
 
> ^$ (on my terminal - may differ on others) will put you back into line-editing
> mode, and if you've deleted 111 lines from the file since you entered
> full-screen mode when you ^$, you get the message you received.

	Q also does this.
 
> You can, I assume, get back into full-screen mode. I haven't guessed how, and
> I'm fair to lazy to read the manual. Me? I save the file and re-vi it.....
 

	Type vi or visual at the ':' prompt



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