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From: ned@ghostwheel.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi editor problem on UNIX-pc
Message-ID: <114@ghostwheel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 18:05:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 18:05:48 1987
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Reply-To: ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ned Nowotny)
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In article <113@ghostwheel.UUCP> ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP (Ned Nowotny) writes:
>In article <50@cjsa.UUCP> jeff@cjsa.UUCP (C. Jeffery Small) writes:
>>Occasionally, when I am editing a file with long lines (say 130 cols or more)
>>or when I perform a join (J) of two lines to create a long line, ...
>
>Generally, if wrapmargin ("wm") is non-zero, a
>join which results in a line of about the lengths you describe will be badly
>mangled.  Many of the characters from the "joined" line are lost.  If
>wrapmargin is zero, these problems do not seem to occur.  My suspicion is that
>this is a fairly widespread vi bug.

Pardon my faulty memory.  The problem I described occurs when "putting" (Pp)
deleted or yanked text into a line when wrapmargin is non-zero.  If the line
created is longer than some amount, it becomes mangled.  This is true of every
implementation of vi that I have used, but I have not encountered the problem
with joining lines.

Ned Nowotny (ned@ghostwheel.aca.mcc.com.UUCP)