Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:57:26 -0400 From: Pete Vanderburgh <peterv@vma.verio.net> To: Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file [xyz] Message-ID: <3755A8C6.60C52600@vma.verio.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906021057210.10215-100000@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>
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Todd Backman wrote: > > Forgive me if I am incorrect. > > You are writing the file and saving it (ex: ZZ or :wq) and not just > suspending it (ctrl z)? Correct. I write using :wq, and to quit without saving, use :q!. -- Pete > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Pete Vanderburgh wrote: > > > Hey y'all. I've been looking through questions and usenet, and haven't > > seen this one before, but I think it's a simple question. > > > > Every time I edit a file with the vi editor, and log out of my local > > host, the next time I log in, I always get the message from root (Nvi > > recovery program): > > > > On [date&time] the user peterv was editing a file named [xyz] on the > > machine [host.here.net], when it was saved for recovery. You can > > recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r > > option to vi: > > > > vi -r [xyz] > > --- > > > > ... where 'xyz' is the file I was editing. Any ideas what I can do to > > get rid of these annoying messages? I'll often get several if I worked > > on said file many times in a session. I'm using FreeBSD 3.1 Stable and > > IceWm for X-Windows. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > ===================================== > > Pete Vanderburgh > > Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. > > peterv@verio.net > > ===================================== > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > ========================================================================= > Todd Backman "there are two major products > <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com> that came out of berkley: > Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. > Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be > "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson > ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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