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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: elvis bug Message-ID: <almC6Bwux.375@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <1rr14f$t31@Germany.EU.net> Date: Sat, 1 May 1993 03:40:09 GMT Lines: 14 In article <1rr14f$t31@Germany.EU.net> 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 */ elvis-1.7 has other problems, but not this one.