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From: rl@whuts.ATT.COM (LEVY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: "vi" editor wanted
Summary: the vi wasn't very good
Message-ID: <5311@whuts.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 89 20:27:45 GMT
References: <4038@omepd.UUCP> <18200003@ugun21>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
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The version of vi posted to this group isn't very good - it failed on
the second command I attempted.  I used it to edit a 33Kbyte file and
it truncated the file.  33K is not terribly large but worse, I used :w
to write the file fragment to a new file and the program went into an
endless disk I/O loop.  When I tried again on a smaller file, I found
that screen management was worse than UNIX vi when using a dumb terminal.

R. Levy