"Toggling file names in vi"
Joe Presley
presley at mhuxj.UUCP
Thu Mar 29 04:37:12 AEST 1984
>> A great example of the use of toggling file names in vi is the use of the
>> two files accessed by vi after a a (r)eply or (f)ollowup command from vnews.
>> :n To go to the article file
>> :e # To go back to the temporary file
>> :$r # Read the article file into the original file.
Why go to all that trouble? Just say ":$r $A": $A is the name of the
article file, as is documented in the vnews(1) man page.
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Joe Presley (mhuxj!presley, ihnp4!j.presley)
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