From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 04:06:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490EA16A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:06:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (gwdu60.gwdg.de [134.76.8.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462B443FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 04:06:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gwdu60.gwdg.de (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hABC6ncq049051; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:06:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from localhost (kheuer2@localhost)hABC6mXV049048; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:06:48 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu60.gwdg.de: kheuer2 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:06:48 +0100 (CET) From: Konrad Heuer To: Zhang Weiwu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20031111130544.F28128@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie: vi - go to previous file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:06:52 -0000 On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. I am using the BSD's vi not vim. > > I learned from :exusage that :N is to swich to the next file in argument > list while :P swich to the previous file. :N woks fine, while :P does > nothing. > > Say, I run ">vi file1 file2", which opens file1, :N begin to edit file2, > then I press :P, I thought I should go to file1, but I'm still editing > file2. Try :prev - :p seems to be an abbreviation for a different command. Regards Konrad Heuer (kheuer2@gwdg.de) ____ ___ _______ GWDG / __/______ ___ / _ )/ __/ _ \ Am Fassberg / _// __/ -_) -_) _ |\ \/ // / 37077 Goettingen /_/ /_/ \__/\__/____/___/____/ Germany