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Re: VI - finding lines longer than 80 characters

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From: Chris D Iacovelli
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:26

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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
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>``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
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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>
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References: <#nz10s#@rpi.edu> <1992Nov20.084842@gruc19.nor.chevron.com> <1992Nov22.194628.17508@prl.dec.com>
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