[plug] Sending a VI session to the background

Paul Dean paul at canningcollege.wa.edu.au
Sun Dec 30 13:27:20 WST 2001


On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Michael Hunt wrote:

> Hiya all,
> 
> While I was making changes to a text file I believe I have inadvertently
> sent the edited file to a background process and now I cant edit the file as
> it say it is read only. Does anyone know how I can get beck to my original
> VI session ???
> 
> Michael Hunt
> 
> 
You can reopen the file with Vi and it will ask you what you want to do,
it will either kill the process or pick it up.

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Paul...

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