Clifford Williams wrote:
 
>I am a 'vi' bigot.  With any block mode editor, such as QEDIT, you
>make your changes and then you have to tell the editor to remember
>them.  With 'vi' when you make your changes the editor knows you made
>changes.  With QEDIT when you finish editing the file is already
>changed.  With 'vi' you save the file when you finish editing.
 
This is only if you "Open" a file.  In Qedit you can "text" a file
in.  This will create a scratch file (qeditscr) and your updates
will not be posted until you save or "Keep".  And you can save to
a different file.
 
Thanks,
 
Larry