On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:44, you wrote:
> 1 -  csawtell is quite correct, Kate is specifically designed for
>       working with text files and shouldn't muck them up - and is
>       definatly not the culprit here
>
> 2 - Matthew Gregan correctly spotted the cause - dumb user error
>
> ...but, quite unrelated to this, I intend to force myself to re-learn
> and use vi/vim - at least to the extent of confidently cutting and
> pasting!

http://www.kegel.com/linux/training.html

in particular:-

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

> nano and pico are easy, but I think can cause probs too if you leave off
> the -w;

It wraps at 80 chars. unless you use the -w option flag.
You can always use the alias mechanism.

> besides, the horrible learning curve of vi - or emacs if you
> follow that path - is one of the great *nix traditions :-)

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