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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Help! 386bsd vi has some problems
Message-ID: <BsqwqC.22D@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 10 Aug 92 02:11:00 GMT
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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The vi from the binary distribution of 386bsd 0.1 seems to have some
operational problems. First, when I yank some lines into a named buffer
then change to a different file and try to paste from the named buffer
I get an error message "Error reading back from tmp file for pasting!"
and unreliable results (sometimes the paste seems to work, sometimes
partially, sometimes not at all). Seems to be okay if I don't switch
files. Looks like some kind of mishandling of the tmp file across
the switch.
The second problem has to do with tags. Even though the current directory
has a valid tags file and the function that I specify is listed in this
tags file, vi tells me the requested tag is not found. Seems to not
work at all. (I've never had it find a tag).
Are others experiencing these problems, or do I have some kind of
environmental/configuration problem?
Thanks for any help you can give,
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