Re: vi vs. nvi

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:13:47PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:21:26PM +0200, Adam Hoka wrote:
> > Open a file with nvi, go to the first line and hit Shift-O.
> > Do you see the same bug as me? It works in old vi.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Also I added the 'matchchars' option to vi in order to remove '<' and '>'
> from the characters matched by '%'.
> Historically only "()[]{}" were matched by '%' although "<>" might be
> useful in some languages, they are not in C.
> In particular I often (yes often!) type c% at the start of xx->yy(zz)
> and the '>' needs to be ignored.

Another bug ...

When 'vi' askes for 'press any key to continue' after opening a file
(eg because the filename is too long)
the command keys (eg '/' and ':') have always been acted on as well.

        David

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