Michael Gold wrote:
> vidir should either reopen the editor on error (maybe with comments at
> the top and above the bad lines) or save a copy of the edited list in
> the working directory.
> 
> I have occasionally encountered this problem after spending a long time
> editing a large directory, and have had to redo my work because of it.
> I'm therefore marking the bug 'grave', although I'm not sure whether
> the severity is meant to cover this kind of metadata loss.

Grave severity means that this is so important that it would be better
to remove moreutils entirely than leave it as-is.

I don't object to fixing this in principle, but that just punctured my
motivation. Patches accepted.

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see shy jo

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