Vi bug

[Michael Greim]

In article <1001 at philmds.UUCP>, leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
< Maybe someone has been bitten by this one before, but anyway, here it
< goes (reproducable at least both on Ultrix 2.x and SUNOS 3.5):
< 
< Create a file with at least one line that wraps (depending on your
< terminal / window, probably a line of over 80 chars).
< 
< Now type '/' (search) followed by windowsize+1 dots (so probably 81).
< 
< Surprise! You probably get a corrupted display (even ^L won't help). By
< pressing 'n' a few times I managed to get an internal vi error (it goes
< back to ex mode). If it matters: my wrapmargin is set to 0.
< 
[...]
< 	 Leo.

It is a bug. I had it on 4.3BSD, SUN OS and Ultrix.
I will try to find the bug. As I do this in my sparetime it may take some
days. It may also be one of those bugs, for which you must rewrite large
parts of vi.
Watch this space.

	-mg
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