vi exit status

[John Esak]

> >| 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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Me either... :-)
JE