flint@gistdev.UUCP (05/20/89)
I believe this represents a bug in vi: Create a normal ascii text file with vi. Enter it with "vi -x file" on the un-encrypted file. Use ! to run a command on part of the file and it works fine: the command invoked by ! is fed un-encrypted data. Save the file so that now it is encrypted. Now do a "vi -x file" on the encrypted file, and try to use ! again: the command invoked with ! is fed encrypted data, and the returned result is garbage. What gets fed to the ! command ought to always be unencrypted information.