[Patch] Add command ":wn" to vi-applet

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Mar 24 18:09:12 PST 2006


On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:14 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > > Not sure who feels responsible for vi, but i certainly like :wn
>  >
>  > I go :w filename from time to time, is this related?
>  >
>  > What does it do?
>
> thank you -- i thought maybe i was the only one in the dark, and i
> thought i knew more about vi than the average bear.  ":wn" seems
>
> to be a vim thing:
>     :help wn
>
>     ....  {not in Vi}
>
> if the goal is "small", maybe we should keep busybox vi to a traditional
> subset...  it's so imperfect, why try to embellish it?

I miss undo.

I miss highlighting, copy, and paste.

I have no idea what :wn is.

Rob
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