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10.4 The Edit Buffer

When you insert, delete or change single characters in your file Ved doesn't really change the entire file. Instead, it copies the current line into an edit buffer and makes the changes there. When you finish the line, the line is copied into the main buffer.

This means that you can cancel changes made to a line, if you do so before Ved updates the buffer.

The line is copied the buffer when any of the following actions occur:

If the line hasn't yet been copied to the main buffer, you can undo your changes with the [Esc][U] command.



2004-05-02