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From: stadt@cs.utwente.nl (Richard van de Stadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: A question on .exrc while using vi
Keywords: exrc vi
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.135646@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: 6 Dec 90 12:56:46 GMT
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In article <5315@graphite20.UUCP>, joshi@motcid.UUCP (Abhay B. Joshi) writes:
|> I couldn't find a newsgroup for vi questions, hence this intrusion.
|> 
|> I have a simple text-file containing the following text (3 lines): 
|> 
|> 	The goal:
|> 	All I am trying to do is replace the 'the's by 'an's.
|> 	That's all.
|> 
|> I set up a .exrc in the current directory which looks like (2 lines):
|> 	:g/the/ s//an/g
|> 
|> Now I tried to do a 'vi text-file', I got a coredump! About 10 times.
|> Then I deleted the .exrc file and put the command in EXINIT.
|> I got a coredump again. (No coredump if neither .exrc nor EXINIT exists)
|> 

On a SPARCstation 1+ I get a segmentation fault

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R.R. van de Stadt (Richard)
Email: stadt@cs.utwente.nl