[Sussex] vi

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Jon Greenwood wrote:
> Remembered on the train in ...
>
> :wq!
>
> This is bad.  Always use :wq if you want to write and quit.
>
> Why?
>
> If you perform :wq! on a file on a full file system (e.g. a developer 
> homespace NFS share), your edits will fail to write, then because 
> you've shrieked at vi, it will exit taking all of your edits with it. 
> You have no second chances to write to a different partition ... your 
> magnum opus is lost.
>
> Hands up those here who've done this. (And yes, my hand is up)
>
>
> Jon
Unfortunately, if the file has permissions "444" and you don't want to 
manually go and change it, you use ":wq!" This happened to me yesterday, 
editing an RCS logfile to break the lock.