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- From: coactive@netcom.com (Coactive Aesthetics)
- Subject: Re: vi dumps core (SunOS)
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:04:09 GMT
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- jakkanen@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Jukka Akkanen) writes:
- : Today I discovered a mysterious bug in vi on both SunOS 4.1.1 and
- : 4.1.2. Marking a position in a file with letter d, moving below the
- : marked line, and performing c'd causes segmentation violation.
- :
- : Funny enough, by using any other letter than d for the mark, or `d
- : instead of 'd as the cursor movement command, things work the way
- : they're supposed to.
- :
- : Any comments?
- :
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- This seems to be a generic bug in vi, since it does the same thing on a
- NeXT station (vi version 3.7). I find it is interesting, because I have
- been using vi for almost 6 years, and have found it very difficult to do
- something which would dump a core file without a lot of work. BTW, I did
- the same command in vile (my current editor of choice), and it did the
- right thing.
-
- Otto
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