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From: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: Vi bug
Summary: Not here it isn't...
Message-ID: <1aEbQ97kCJ1010nFS0o@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 18 Apr 89 20:48:50 GMT
References: <1001@philmds.UUCP> <722@sbsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen House
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In article <722@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
 >In article <1001@philmds.UUCP>, leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
 >< Create a file with at least one line that wraps (depending on your
 >< terminal / window, probably a line of over 80 chars).
 >< 
 >< Now type '/' (search) followed by windowsize+1 dots (so probably 81).
 >< 
 >< Surprise! You probably get a corrupted display (even ^L won't help). By
 >< pressing 'n' a few times I managed to get an internal vi error (it goes
 >< back to ex mode). If it matters: my wrapmargin is set to 0.
 >< 
 >[...]
 >< 	 Leo.
 >
 >It is a bug. I had it on 4.3BSD, SUN OS and Ultrix.

It is NOT present in Amdahl UTS, at least not in UTS 2.0 (I don't have an older
version around to check.)

As a side note, it IS still present in SunOS 4.0.


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