rcodi@yabbie.rmit.oz (Ian Donaldson) (08/03/88)
Description:
Ever noticed that if you have your cursor positioned after column 80 on a
long line on an 80 character wide screen, and you hit ^Z, then "fg" that
you end up with nothing on the screen, and sometimes you even
get the message:
internal error in vgoto
Hitting any key seems to fix the screen, but its a bit irritating at times,
especially when the file you have has most of its lines longer than
the screen width (like our /etc/passwd does).
Repeat-by:
vi /etc/passwd
look for a long line, to to it, hit this in sequence
$
^Z
fg
Note the blank screen, or an error message.
Systems:
This happens on all versions of 4.[123]BSD, including all Suns that
I have played with. It doesn't happen on vanilla System-V, due to lack
of job control.
Ian D