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Re: A semi-annual poke about progress

Neil W Rickert
Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:38:12 -0700

Glenn Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Clues on what the test for 'broken vi' does are solicited.

The "vi" on some systems (including solaris) returns a non-zero
exit status if any command at all failed during the vi session.

Presumably this makes sense if vi is running in the background
from a response file.

Anyway, nmh ignores vi exit codes on such systems.

 -NWR