bug in vi (wrapmargin)

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2 total messages Started by Nick Stoughton Fri, 24 Oct 1986 13:25

#351

Author: Nick Stoughton
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1986 13:25

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I don't know if anyone in the mists of time has noticed and reported this
feature before, but there is a serious bug in the line folding
stuff when wrapmargin is non-zero.

Repeat-by:
	Set wrapmargin=10.
	Create yourself a small file with the same line copied 3 or 4 times
	with each line just shorter than where the line break would occur.
	Go to the last word on line 1. Add in some text to cause a line split.
	Got to the last word on line 2.
	Type '.' to repeat the insert.
	Observe

Fix-by:
	Don't know...I haven't the time to look just now.

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Re: bug in vi (wrapmargin)

#352

Author: Paul Sutcliffe Jr.
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1986 04:17

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In article <1090@inset.UUCP>, nick@inset.UUCP (Nick Stoughton) writes:
> I don't know if anyone in the mists of time has noticed and reported this
> feature before, but there is a serious bug in the line folding
> stuff when wrapmargin is non-zero.
> 
> Repeat-by:
> 	[ showed what to do ]

Must not be a unique problem.  I tried the "repeat-by" steps with
my vi and had the same thing occur (I guess, Nick just says "Observe",
and I assume that what I saw is what he meant).

For the record, I have a Tandy Model 16 using XENIX/68000 3.0; the
version of vi is 3.7.

-Paul
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