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Patrick J Volkerding 75a4a592e5 Slackware 13.37
Mon Apr 25 13:37:00 UTC 2011
Slackware 13.37 x86_64 stable is released!

Thanks to everyone who pitched in on this release: the Slackware team,
the folks producing upstream code, and linuxquestions.org for providing
a great forum for collaboration and testing.

The ISOs are off to be replicated, a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a
dual-sided
32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.  Please consider supporting the Slackware
project by picking up a copy from store.slackware.com.  We're taking
pre-orders now, and offer a discount if you sign up for a subscription.

As always, thanks to the Slackware community for testing, suggestions,
and feedback.  :-)

Have fun!
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<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="VI-OPENING-FILES" name="VI-OPENING-FILES">16.3 Opening
Files</a></h1>
<p><tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt> allows you to open files from command mode as well as
specifying a file on the command line to open. To open the file <tt
class="FILENAME">/etc/lilo.conf</tt>:</p>
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<p>If you have made changes to the current buffer without saving, <tt
class="COMMAND">vi</tt> will complain. You can still open the file without saving the
current buffer by typing <b class="KEYCAP">:e!</b>, followed by a space and the filename.
In general, <tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt>'s warnings can be suppressed by following the
command with an exclamation mark.</p>
<p>If you want to reopen the current file, you can do so simply by typing <b
class="KEYCAP">e!</b>. This is particularly useful if you have somehow messed up the file
and want to reopen it.</p>
<p>Some <tt class="COMMAND">vi</tt> clones (for example, <tt class="COMMAND">vim</tt>)
allow for multiple buffers to be open at the same time. For example, to open up the file
<tt class="FILENAME">09-vi.sgml</tt> in my home directory while another file was open, I
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<p>The new file is displayed on the top half of the screen, and the old file is displayed
in the bottom half of the screen. There are a lot of commands that manipulate the split
screen, and many of these commands start to resemble something out of <tt
class="COMMAND">Emacs</tt> The best place to look up these commands would be the man page
for your vi clone. Note that many clones do not support the split-screen idea, so you
might not be able to use it at all.</p>
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