Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:35:49 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 205697] vi gets confused and corrupts file being edited Message-ID: <bug-205697-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D205697 Bug ID: 205697 Summary: vi gets confused and corrupts file being edited Product: Base System Version: 10.2-RELEASE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: heikki@suonsivu.net I was editing a file with vi, and got Error: ?!: Illegal byte sequence; ?!: WARNING: FILE TRUNCATED. After this, it refused to save the file. In middle of the file there was ~= one one line. However, any attempt to edit that line caused error=20 Error: unable to retrieve line 7 The line could not be removed or edited.=20 This is nasty as it destroys the file being edited. I recovered the file from backup, and I get=20 paypal: unmodified: line 1; Conversion error on line 7 I might have missed that error when starting to edit. This is plain text file. If vi has some magic for UTF8 or whatever, it sho= uld never go confused, and simply switch locate to C with appropriate warning message. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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