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Re: Typo in vitut.txt
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 05:44:28PM +0200, ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 03:26:43PM -0000, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> > adr <adr%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > > /usr/share/doc/usd/vi/vitut.txt lines 943-984/2970 ...
> > [...]
> > > "...you shoud use a _named_ buffer."
> >
> > Applied. Thank you.
>
> Ahem. From finger memory: this isn't true for our version of nvi,
> or is it? *checking* I think not. Maybe we should add a footnote?
From the vi/ex reference, /usr/share/doc/reference/ref1/vi/vi.txt:
Historically, the contents of the unnamed buffer were
discarded by many different commands, even ones that
didn't store text into it. Nex/nvi never discards the
contents of the unnamed buffer until new text replaces
them.
-is
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