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From: ack@caldwr.caldwr.gov (David Ackerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Weird vi bug
Message-ID: <130@caldwr.caldwr.gov>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 18:59:26 EST
Article-I.D.: caldwr.130
Posted: Fri Nov 13 18:59:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 11:13:43 EST
Organization: California Department of Water Resources
Lines: 25
Keywords: interpretation of text as commands

We discovered a very strange bug in Apollo implementation of vi, at least the
version we have. If the characters "ei:X:" are in a text file that you try to
edit with vi, it will try to interpret the X char as a command. For instance,
the line

ei:5:

will elicit the statement, "Not that many lines in buffer", if there aren't
that many lines, or it will take you to line 5 in the buffer. Or

ei:g:

will give you "Missing regular expression for global". I have never seen this
type of behavior in any of the versions of vi I have used before. Has anyone
else ever experienced this, or is it just us?

BTW, we are running SR 9.5.


David Ackerman
California Department of Water Resources         caldwr!ack@ucdavis.edu  (Internet)
"It's the water, and a lot more..."       ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!ack  (UUCP)

         The opinions expressed above are mine, not those of the State
         of California or the California Department of Water Resources.