newbie: vi - go to previous file

[Brunoc at quipo.it]

On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, Konrad Heuer wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
>
>>Hello. I am using the BSD's vi not vim.
>>
>>I learned from :exusage that :N is to swich to the next file in argument
>>list while :P swich to the previous file. :N woks fine, while :P does
>>nothing.
>>
>>say, I run ">vi file1 file2", which opens file1, :N begin to edit file2,
>>then I press :P, I thought I should go to file1, but I'm still editing
>>file2.

>try :prev - :p seems to be an abbreviation for a different command.
>
>Regards

Konrad Heuer (kheuer2 at gwdg.de)  ____            ___  _______

When you edit multiple files in vi,
(whether you start from the command line like "vi file1 file 2. . . ", 
or by starting vi with a single file or with no file argument at all, 
in which case you can load a file from inside the vi with the 
vi command ':n <file_to_load>'),
you can cycle from a file to the next 
(and when you are at the last,you restart with 
the first and so on,like in a "ring") 
inside the editor with the command ':n#' (yes, ":n#")

Cheers

Bruno

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