Xref: utzoo unix-pc.bugs:43 comp.sys.att:4367 comp.unix.wizards:11399 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay From: jay@banzai.UUCP (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: unix-pc.bugs,comp.sys.att,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Weird problem with vi... "Not that many lines in buffer" Keywords: vi, bug Message-ID: <184@banzai.UUCP> Date: 29 Sep 88 00:24:39 GMT References: <508@icus.islp.ny.us> Reply-To: jay@banzai.UUCP (Jay Schuster) Organization: People's Computer Company, Burlington, VT Lines: 24 In article <508@icus.islp.ny.us> lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >I just created this .signature file, and for some reason every time this >is in a file, and I do a "vi" of that file I get the following message... > >".signature" 4 lines of 300 characters Not that many lines in buffer ... >-- >Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems w: +1 (516) 582-5525 >lenny@icus.islp.ny.us Telex: 154232428 ICUS h: +1 (516) 968-8576 >{talcott,boulder,hombre,pacbell,sbcs}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny > ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 vi has a feature that allows you to embed commands in the file you are editing. If, in the last N or first N lines of the file it finds a string that goes `ex:', it assumes that what follows is a command to be executed. I often put ex:set wm=15 in certain text logfiles I maintain. Note that your .signature now has a Telex number that corresponds with that format. -- Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'