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From: bc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (B.C.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: More Elvis Bugs
Summary: hang zero-length esc
Message-ID: <1990Jan16.044748.18071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 04:47:48 GMT
Reply-To: b-cox2@uiuc.edu (Ben Cox)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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I reported a while ago that Elvis hangs when you try to edit a zero-length
file.  Well, it not only hangs then, but also whenever you try to edit ANY
file that you can't read (no read permission), unless the file just plain
doesn't exist.

Also, real vi aborts a replace when you type "r" ESC.  Elvis actually does the
replace -- it replaces the current character with an ESC ("^[").

Ben Cox
b-cox2@uiuc.edu