On 26Jun2006 13:04, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Les Mikesell wrote: | > No, I didn't actually try it in vim. It was that way in vi long ago | > and I've given up on keeping track of what versions have what | > different behavior. But now that you mention it, none of the | > versions I use regularly need the space - and the other old quirk of | > not taking a repeat count for 'r' is fixed too. | | Ahh, at least I know it's not something magical about my vimrc then. I don't know about :r, but :w and :q have always taken a following "!" to mean "skip the sanity checks". So if you'd opened a file in readonly mode, :w will refuse to write it out, but :w! will write it anyway (file permissions permitting of course). And :q will (the first time) refuse to quit if you've changed but not saved a file, while :q! will quit regardless. It does make less sense with :r, except for syntactic consistency. Which I like. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Patent laws: made for the benefit of little inventors, opposed by little inventors, pushed by big corporations. Something is quite wrong. - http://slashdot.org/~marcello_dl
