jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) (12/04/90)
I've been working on a VI bug on another system and noticed that on 2.2.3 that :preserve always reports an error. Also, if I kill the VI command with a SIGHUP, VI spews out the same error message, "Buffer Format Error". Inside of VI it also says "Preserve Failed!". Is this fixed in some newer version? I recreated this by editing a new file named "foo", with just one line "this is a test.", exited, then re-edited it again. I then added one more line "this is a new line.", typed ":preserve" and it barfs. Escaping to the shell and sending VI a SIGHUP will have similiar results (and screw up your terminal) I thought this might be due to a small buffer (Ex* file == 4096) not being handled exactly right, but trying :preserve just now on this file (Ex* file == 8192). I suppose I could keep typing and see if it works with really large files, but that is probably a waste of time ;-). -- John F. Haugh II UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh Ma Bell: (512) 832-8832 Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org