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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