Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!amc-gw!thebes!polari!6sigma2 From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Obscure Vi bug? Message-ID: <2276@polari.UUCP> Date: 3 Aug 90 04:05:11 GMT References: <11626@ingr.com> <1990Aug2.211449.24360@math-cs.kent.edu> Organization: Seattle Online Public Unix (206) 328-4944 Lines: 12 In article <1990Aug2.211449.24360@math-cs.kent.edu> jstuart@kentvax.kent.edu (Jeff Stuart) writes: |We have a problem here also with vi that when you edit a file and that |file contains an ei: possibly followed by some text and then another : |vi gives an error message. This happened on two machines, 1) Plexus |P/75 running System V.2, and 2) Zilog Z80 running System V.2. The error |message that we get on the zilog is bad register command and on the |plexus it is something totally different. Has anyone seen this? It will probably also happen with ex: or vi: or vx: This is a feature, of questionable utility, but a feature nonetheless. -- Brian L. Matthews blm@6sceng.UUCP