home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewsc!cbfsb!cbnewsg.cb.att.com!nh
- From: nh@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (nicholas.hounsome)
- Subject: Re: A little question on vi
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.092427.9619@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Sender: news@cbfsb.cb.att.com
- Organization: AT&T
- References: <1993Jan21.061448.25739@cdf.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:24:27 GMT
- Lines: 26
-
- From article <1993Jan21.061448.25739@cdf.toronto.edu>, by g2chanhk@cdf.toronto.edu (Simon Ho Ki CHAN):
- > Hi, is there anybody who knows how to put the EOF marker at the end of
- > the last line, instead of putting it in a new line? e.g I wanna create a file
- > like the following
- >
- > blah, blah
- > blah, blah<EOF>
- >
- > instead of
- >
- > blah, blah
- > blah, blah
- > <EOF>
- >
- > Thanks for advance.
-
- It is not possible - vi is fundamentaly a line editor - its core is the
- ex part which is a line editor which is roughly based on ed which is a line
- editor.
-
- There is no EOF marker by the way (Well not in unix anyway).
-
- This is also the main reason why you cannot delete the newline with 'x' or
- 'X' as you can in character stream oriented editors such as emacs.
-
- Nick Hounsome
-