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- From: ciacovel@telesciences.com (Chris D Iacovelli)
- Subject: Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.132622.1778@telesciences.com>
- Organization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.
- References: <#nz10s#@rpi.edu> <1992Nov20.084842@gruc19.nor.chevron.com> <1992Nov22.194628.17508@prl.dec.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:26:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.194628.17508@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- >I thought this was one well known feature of vi. Lines over 80 chars
- >usually screw your screen up -- no searching necessary...
- >
- >
- >Boyd Roberts boyd@prl.dec.com
- >
- >``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
-
- <----- WARNING: This is not a flame ----->
-
- Not. What happens if you use a window that is greater than 80
- characters wide, i.e. xterm -g66x132. This does not "screw your screen up" and
- searching is still necessary.
-
- Just my $0.02.
-
- Chris.
- Chris Iacovelli
- Member, Technical Staff
- Telesciences CO Systems
- ciacovel@telesciences.com
- if (flame)
- > /dev/null
- fi
-