#: 12877 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    04-Nov-91  14:00:28
Sb: #12876-#Aborting Edit?
Fm: Erich Schulman 75140,3175
To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227

I know there is some way to do it because I once did it by accident. But I have
no idea what I did to do it!  I always use Edit with files on a RAMdisk and
since I was working on my startup file copied from /d0, I lost nothing.  Why
should it be so hard to leave Edit without saving your changes--I thought one
of the "rules" of OS-9 is that you let a ctrl-e or a KILL terminate your
process but here is something on the original system disk which is different. 
A hard disk defragmenter, I can understand why you'd intercept attempts to
stop, but a _line editor_??

As a rule, /term and /w1 are always active with shells on my system so I'll try
out your method.  I do nearly all my text editing with Simply Better.  Even
having to RSDos DECBOS-9 is worth the ease of SB over Edit.  I only use
Edit to make little fixups to patch scripts, Basic-09 listings I download,
Startup, and so forth.  And I'll use its counterpart built-in to Basic-09 for
new programs so I can get the immediate syntax checking.

Oh well.  Thanks just the same.

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