Subject: bug in nvi(1)
To: None <netbsd-bugs@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Bob Kemp <rsk@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/04/1994 18:51:11
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Bob Kemp
>Organization:
ECS Dept, Southampton University, UK
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: nvi slightly loses track of argument list
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: bin
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: -current 05Mar94
>Environment:
System: NetBSD allegory 0.9a ALLEGORY#0 i386
>Description:
The :args command gives an incorrect list of arguments,
or more accurately a different one to that of the original vi.
It also seems a touch misleading.
>How-To-Repeat:
vi /etc/*ly
# /etc/daily /etc/monthly /etc/weekly
:n
:n
:rew
:args
[/etc/daily] /etc/monthly /etc/weekly
:e!#
:args
/etc/daily [/etc/weekly] /etc/monthly /etc/weekly
>Fix:
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