Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:50:03 -0800 (PST) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2001: vi confused about lines to display Message-ID: <199611150250.SAA05306@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2001; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2001: vi confused about lines to display Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 02:44:07 +0000 (GMT) Bill Fenner: > Do you also see this behavior if recdir is set to a non-existent directory? I > could not replicate the problem with > > env NEXINIT="set recdir=/no/such" /usr/bin/vi > > it did print an error message, but then when I hit enter the error message > went away and the screen looked perfectly normal. I deleted the top line, and > the line got properly deleted. > > Are you sure you didn't have a termcap problem? standard termcap, oh... I forgot to mention this was within a 'screen' window in an xterm. Perhaps also there need to be more than one screenful of lines. > > dismissed, there are 2 identical lines displayed on the screen and no > > simple way to redisplay the screen to reflect the actual file content. > > Control-L didn't work? ctrl-L refreshed the screen to show the same 2 identical lines. Quitting and restarting vi showed the actual contents of the file (no identical lines). Adam
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