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From: lyourk@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Loran N. Yourk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS vi bug
Message-ID: <4014@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 88 16:07:38 GMT
References: <3706@killer.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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] MKS 'vi' does some pretty weird things on me - noticably a
] :%s/^/string/ replaces the file with 'string',instead of 
] prepending each line with it.  Also, is there a way around
] the inability to imbed carraige returns (^M) files with
] this 'vi' - i'd like my ex.rc to do some of the work for
] me, as well as set up macros that executes several commands.
] 
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The version of the MKS vi I have (ver 3.5, MKS release 2.2) does
not have the the problem you mentioned with the :%s command.  As
to the problem with embedding carriage returns,  the carriage
returns are there but MKS vi doesn't display (or read) past the
first carriage return on the line (for that line only) the next
time you edit the file (or read it in as is the case for ex.rc).
If you need a vi that doesn't have these problems then you should
try PC/VI.

Loran Yourk
ihnp4!ihlpf!lyourk