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From: bosman@fwi.uva.nl (Cor Bosman)
Subject: Re: elvis bug
Message-ID: <1993Apr30.200643.3856@fwi.uva.nl>
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 20:06:43 GMT
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bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:

>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 */

Why not just use 'vi'? the REAL vi.. im sorry to say so..but to me
elvis just doesnt do it. Its buggy and just strange. 
Go for vi :) 

cor
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