linux kernel 2.6, Slackware 12.0 (GNU).

Hi:
Sometimes, when I load a file (text file) with vim, I am notified by vim the following way.
As I must still get familiarized with vim and its monstrous manual (man pages), at that point what I do is to try to exit vim leaving things untouched and, then, use some linux tool (e.g. diff) to investigate what happens with the file in question or what is the most convenitn course of action.

But I have always the terrible doubt: do I press Q or do I press A? It is because of this that I write this post. Regards.

EDIT: I know I can do 'info vim' and, with a bit of luck, find out the information I'm looking for. But my experience with the vim manual tells me it is rather improbable to find it but with a great deal of ingenuity and effort.

vim is a great editor if you want to leave things unchanged try
[o]
this will open the file in the read only mode that is no changes can be made
then try quitting vim by

:q!

if u find your file as it is you left last time you can delete this swap file

RahulKumar07
reform.co.nr

Perhaps I must make myself a bit clearer: there are files
text_file_1,
text_file_1~ and
.text_file_1.swp. In addition,
text_file_1.bak, a result of my sometimes booting M$-DOS.
Before I run vim, the set of all four files is in a certain state. Let us call it State_1. Then I get vim's notification when trying to load the file ('vim text_file_1'). Now, by exiting vim, the set will be in a new state. Let's call it State_2.

And what I want to do is this: exit vim in such a way that State_1 = State_2. So, my question is: do I quit ('Q') or do I abort ('A'). Any suggestion will be welcome. Thanks for reading.

EDIT: if vim had a man page, I could simply look for the string 'abort' and, with a little luck, I would have vim telling me exactly what Abort does. Unfortunately, all there is in my hard disk/optical medium is the info tex file. I mean: all I can do is 'info vim'.

Start vim and try this command
:h

Thanks a lot. Regards.