Subject: Re: vi changes?
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/31/2004 20:47:13
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:30:24AM +0000, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> nvi does not contain any original vi code.  The reason it's so bug-compatible 
> is simply that Keith is (was?) insane.  And several people (including myself) 
> complained about lots of obscure things it didn't do "right" in the early 
> days.

off topic but related.  Is anyone else seeing random and un-reproducible
SEGV's with 'nvi' in multi-buffer mode, most often when yanking and pasting
from one buffer to another?

It happens frequently enough that it's annoying but infrequently enough
that it's hard to reproduce.

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