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From: dont@tekig4.TEK.COM (Don Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Re: formatting in vi and "no more processes"
Message-ID: <2504@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 18:48:06 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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When "map {!}fmt" was presented I was elated, I had been doing the same work
by hand on files for a long time.

I promptly added it to my EXINIT and began using it every day.  Everything
seemed to work perfectly until I discovered a severe problem.

If I use it too many times, say twelve or twenty times, or maybe it is too
quickly in succession, I am confronted with "no more processes" in the place of
my paragraph.  Undo will recover from this error.  If I am so silly as to try
it again in the same vi session I will get "no more processes" or I am tossed
into what looks like input mode except only "^D" will get me out of it.  When I
do give it a "^D" I am dumped into what appears to be ex with an "Input read
error".  Unless I am very careful I end up dumped out of vi with my file
eaten.  Attempts to see whether vi is broken and the processes have already
completed or whether the processes take a minute or more to complete, even
though I can continue editing after a couple of seconds have not settled the
question yet.

Does anyone else experience this sort of problem when they try to format, say
40 paragraphs one after another, in a minute or two?

All this is being done on a Gould 9xxx (UTX-32 2.0 (4.3BSD & SYS V)).

Oh well, back to formatting by hand.

Thanks
Don Taylor