From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 2 10:56: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-out.vma.verio.net (smtp-out.vma.verio.net [168.143.190.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9191115108 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:55:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peterv@vma.verio.net) Received: from smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net ([168.143.0.22]) by smtp-out.vma.verio.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10pFCi-00001s-00; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:53:28 -0400 Received: from nessie.lan.intr.net (nessie.lan.intr.net [207.32.92.13]) by smtp-gw2.vma.verio.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA05954; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:55:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3755A8C6.60C52600@vma.verio.net> Received: from iipc22.intr.net by nessie.lan.intr.net via smtpd (for mail.clark.net [168.143.0.10]) with SMTP; 2 Jun 1999 18:01:39 UT Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:57:26 -0400 From: Pete Vanderburgh X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Todd Backman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file [xyz] References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Todd Backman wrote: > > Forgive me if I am incorrect. > > You are writing the file and saving it (ex: ZZ or :wq) and not just > suspending it (ctrl z)? Correct. I write using :wq, and to quit without saving, use :q!. -- Pete > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Pete Vanderburgh wrote: > > > Hey y'all. I've been looking through questions and usenet, and haven't > > seen this one before, but I think it's a simple question. > > > > Every time I edit a file with the vi editor, and log out of my local > > host, the next time I log in, I always get the message from root (Nvi > > recovery program): > > > > On [date&time] the user peterv was editing a file named [xyz] on the > > machine [host.here.net], when it was saved for recovery. You can > > recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r > > option to vi: > > > > vi -r [xyz] > > --- > > > > ... where 'xyz' is the file I was editing. Any ideas what I can do to > > get rid of these annoying messages? I'll often get several if I worked > > on said file many times in a session. I'm using FreeBSD 3.1 Stable and > > IceWm for X-Windows. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > ===================================== > > Pete Vanderburgh > > Verio Web Hosting, Vienna, VA. > > peterv@verio.net > > ===================================== > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > ========================================================================= > Todd Backman "there are two major products > that came out of berkley: > Geek and FreeBSD user lsd and unix. > Seattle, WA we don't believe this to be > "Chaos is a good teacher..." a coincidence." j.s.anderson > ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message