vi question

Don Stanwyck stanwyck at ihuxr.UUCP
Wed Mar 21 03:56:21 AEST 1984


The way I switch to another file, edit, then return, is:

:w
:!vi file2
<edit commands>
:wq
<cr>

It works just fine.  (The first write is optional, but without it you are
risking losing work if the system crashes or you lose yourself somewhere.)
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