Xref: utzoo comp.bugs.sys5:1301 comp.unix.i386:7043 comp.unix.questions:23915 comp.unix.xenix:12480 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Obscure Vi bug? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 90 14:33:35 GMT References: <798@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <846@mwtech.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 5 Another bug in 'vi' relates to the use of uparrow to switch to another file. If it fails for any reason, it will do weird things. It might be as benign as throwing you into line mode (repeat by: starting in a modified file, ":f non-existent-file" then "^^") or erasing the current line. That one I can't create on demand, but it's happened several times. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`