zaccone@psuvax1.UUCP (Rick Zaccone) (06/28/84)
vi doesn't seem to be able to put yanked text into a line when
wrapmargin is set (in my case, wm=9). To repeat the problem, copy the
following three lines into a file. Put the cursor on the word "is" in
the second sentence and do a "y$" -- yank to the end of the line. Now
move to the end of the first sentence and do a put -- "p". Chaos
results! Has anyone seen this before? Is there a fix for it? This
was done with version 3.7 of vi. If wm is set to zero, this works
properly.
Note: The text being yanked affects what happens when the put command
is given. When I first encountered this problem, some lines in the
file were deleted! Note also that the undo command won't undo the
damage done.
----------------------test file---------------------------------
This is a test line which is almost as long as the screen width.
This is a string which will be appended.
----------------------test file---------------------------------
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