On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:02:31AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 12:32:44PM +0200, Engelen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > <...> > > > 2) Anyway, my biggest problem is that every once in a while I get lots > > of email messages telling me that on (date,time) root was editing the > > Config file, Nvi saved it and I can recover it with 'ex -r'. Why? > > You were editing a file. You exited, killed the editor, it crashed, or > your system crashed, without properly closing the editing session. Your > changes still exist and may be recovered. > > 'vi -r' should recover the file and give you the option to restore or > cancel restoration of your lost changes. > > This is a feature, not a bug.
i've run into this too, and i found out about the -r option. but even with -r, the 'recoverable' sessions all show up in different vi buffers... if you don't want to save what's in all those buffers, how do you make them go away? even with ^Wc to close, vi says "check other buffers" even if i've already ^Wc closed them... they keep coming back...! aaugh! -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
