On 2006-09-14 03:23, Bob Beck wrote: > When I'm a sysadmin and type vi, I want vi with all it's ususal > idiosyncracies so that it's basically the same no matter what system
Idiosyncracies aside, I'd still like to see it get bug fixes, such as this one that regularly bites me: $ yes hello | head -50 | fmt -100 > long_lines.txt $ vi long_lines.txt :g/^/.!fmt results in +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Illegal address: only 6 lines in the file. Error: unable to retrieve line 7; 4 lines added; 2 lines deleted instead of re-fmt(1)ing each line individually. Another case involves duplicating each line in the file: $ vi :r !jot 100 :g/^/t. which produces: +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Illegal address: only 150 lines in the file. Error: unable to retrieve line 151; 50 lines added This also ends up duplicating *every other* line, instead of duplicating *every* line. -tkc PS: FWIW, the problem exists in FreeBSD's vi/nvi too: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270048 which I reported there at the same time I reported this on bugs@ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=167830927129031&w=3 but never heard anything on either front. --
