[Patch] Add command ":wn" to vi-applet
Paul Fox
pgf at brightstareng.com
Fri Mar 24 07:42:55 PST 2006
> || :[count]wn[ext] [++opt] [+cmd]
> || Write current file and start editing the [count]
> || next file. Also see |++opt| and |+cmd|. {not in Vi}
>
> I often modify several files at once and after modifying I would
> have to do
>
> :w <RETURN>
> :n <RETURN>
>
> to get to the next file, so :wn is a shortcut for this, as all :w...
> commands are, like :wq, :wq!, ...
sure. there are countless little shortcuts we could add. ":wq"
has been part of vi for over 25 years. ":wn" is much more
recent. that being said, i don't really care about that one -- i
don't use it, i don't do that much editing in busybox vi because
its so crippled, but that feature also won't cost that much space.
> I agree with this.
> But I'll have a look about how to get a little bit more comfortable
> version done, which lets you do some vim-thingys I really like and
> make them optional.
>
> > it's so imperfect, why try to embellish it?
>
> Hm?
what i wrote didn't come out very well. what i meant was, the vi
in busybox is so broken (no undo, no named marks, no regexps,
etc, etc), why bother adding little tiny things like ":wn". the
big omissions are far more annoying than the little ones.
paul
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