greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) (09/07/90)
I have an intermittent problem with 'vi' under 386/ix 2.0.2, where vi will suddenly decide to delete every precious handcrafted character in my file from the cursor right down to EOF. It then deliberately and maliciously leaves me in insert mode so that doing an "undo" wont get it back. It seems to happen when the system load is high so that I have several characters of typeahead waiting for vi to catchup; I yank a line with 'yy', move up a line with 'k', hit 'P' to insert the line above, perhaps 'x' a few times to delete some unwanted characters in the newly inserted copy, and blammo: when vi finally catches up to me, it's blown away everything below the cursor!. Has anyone else noticed this sort of thing?. Failing that, what key sequences (other than ':command's, cos I'm definitely not going near the ':' key) would cause everything below the cursor to be deleted?. Perhaps I'm hitting one of these combinations somehow?. So, what's YOUR favourite "delete from cursor to EOF" vi sequence?. thanks, Greyham. -- /* Greyham Stoney: Australia: (02) 428 6476 * greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au - Ausonics Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Sydney, Oz. * Neurone Server: Brain Cell not Responding. */
gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) (09/07/90)
in article <1990Sep7.033215.22324@hades.ausonics.oz.au>, greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) says: > So, what's YOUR favourite "delete from cursor to EOF" vi sequence?. 'dG' will do it every time. -- BURNS,JIM Georgia Institute of Technology, Box 30178, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt0178a Internet: gt0178a@prism.gatech.edu
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (09/07/90)
In article <1990Sep7.033215.22324@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes: >I have an intermittent problem with 'vi' under 386/ix 2.0.2, where vi will >suddenly decide to delete every precious handcrafted character in my file >from the cursor right down to EOF. It then deliberately and maliciously >leaves me in insert mode so that doing an "undo" wont get it back. This isn't a problem with vi. What is happening is that you are typing the sequence for delete-to-end-of-file. I would bet that you are using a wyse terminal (or something else emulating a wyse). The wyse key for delete-to-end-of-file is usually defined in terminfo as ESC-y. If you are editing some data hit the esc key to end the edit session and then type the y key to yank a line --- POOF --- there goes the rest of you file. My solution is to modify the terminfo entry for whatever terminal type you are using. Remove the sequence for delete-to-end-of-file. -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) (09/12/90)
>I have an intermittent problem with 'vi' under 386/ix 2.0.2, where vi will >suddenly decide to delete every precious handcrafted character in my file >from the cursor right down to EOF. It then deliberately and maliciously >leaves me in insert mode so that doing an "undo" wont get it back. No sense giving up just 'cause undo doesn't work! Try: <esc>"1P or <esc>"2P etc. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) (09/22/90)
In article <1990Sep7.033215.22324@hades.ausonics.oz.au> greyham@hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes: >So, what's YOUR favourite "delete from cursor to EOF" vi sequence?. d]] will delete from the cursor to the end of the section (EOF if you have no sections). Or d} if you have no paragraphs. -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861