"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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