Bug in vi
David Elliott
dce at hammer.UUCP
Tue Oct 15 08:23:58 AEST 1985
This bug seems to be just an instance of a problem in the error printing code.
Here are two known ways of making this kind of problem happen:
1. vi nonexistentfile
ahi there david
ews^[--wcw^[u^^
(^[ is escape, ^^ is control-^)
The first line becomes the same as the last line.
2. vi nonexistentfile
Alternately hit the interrupt and escape keys ten or fifteen times. Then,
type ^L to redraw the screen. The first line of the file is now the word
"Interrupt".
David Elliott
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