vi exit status

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>John Esak propounded (on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 05:57:09PM -0400):
>| Well, I tried these on FreeBSD and the exit status was 0.  However, wouldn't
>| you expect it to be thus?
>| 
>| Isn't it the exit status of the last command (which I would think is the vi
>| itself, not commands that worked or didn't work inside vi) the only thing
>| one can check... and didn't vi succeed?  So, wouldn't you expect it to be 0?
>
>Not if it conforms to an older Posix standard, as does the vi binary on
>SCO or Solaris.

Are you saying that if anything one does in a vi editing session
fails, that it should show as an abnormal termination?  If that
were the case, I doubt that I could ever get out of an editing
session without an error of some kind.

Bill
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