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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: elvis bug Date: 30 Apr 1993 11:04:47 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1rr14f$t31@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Folks, the version of elvis that comes with 386bsd 0.1 has a severe bug: The undo operation fails to set the status of the file edited to dirty. Example: vi foo (edit) :w! /* file is written to disk */ (change) /* like: delete half of the file */ :w! /* file is written to disk */ u :w! /* file is NOT written to disk */ Has this been fixed in a later release of elvis ? -Bernard