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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Vi question
Message-ID: <4615@ski.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 23 Nov 89 16:59:29 GMT
References: <1494@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <8940002@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <8940002@hpfcso.HP.COM> pld@hpfcso.HP.COM (Paul Dineen) writes:
\...   What does vi mean when it flashes
\
\         "No lines in the buffer"
\   
\      each time I enter the editor?

A bug in your .exrc, probably an empty line: such a line equals a linefeed
command -> go to the next line, which doesn't exist in a new file.
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