dont@tekig4.TEK.COM (Don Taylor) (02/17/88)
When "map {!}fmt" was presented I was elated, I had been doing the same work
by hand on files for a long time.
I promptly added it to my EXINIT and began using it every day. Everything
seemed to work perfectly until I discovered a severe problem.
If I use it too many times, say twelve or twenty times, or maybe it is too
quickly in succession, I am confronted with "no more processes" in the place of
my paragraph. Undo will recover from this error. If I am so silly as to try
it again in the same vi session I will get "no more processes" or I am tossed
into what looks like input mode except only "^D" will get me out of it. When I
do give it a "^D" I am dumped into what appears to be ex with an "Input read
error". Unless I am very careful I end up dumped out of vi with my file
eaten. Attempts to see whether vi is broken and the processes have already
completed or whether the processes take a minute or more to complete, even
though I can continue editing after a couple of seconds have not settled the
question yet.
Does anyone else experience this sort of problem when they try to format, say
40 paragraphs one after another, in a minute or two?
All this is being done on a Gould 9xxx (UTX-32 2.0 (4.3BSD & SYS V)).
Oh well, back to formatting by hand.
Thanks
Don Tayloruevans@ecsvax.UUCP (Elizabeth A. Evans) (02/23/88)
In article <2504@tekig4.TEK.COM> dont@tekig4.TEK.COM (Don Taylor) writes: >When "map {!}fmt" was presented I was elated, I had been doing the same work >by hand on files for a long time. > >If I use it too many times, say twelve or twenty times, or maybe it is too >quickly in succession, I am confronted with "no more processes" I had exactly the same thing happen while editing a file where I was formatting 40-50 paragraphs in succession. If there's a way to avoid it, I'd like to know about it. -- Elizabeth A. Evans Office of Information Systems University of NC School of Medicine Chapel Hill, NC internet: uevans@med.unc.edu usenet: ...!decvax!mcnc!uncmed!uevans