Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:42:17 -0500 From: mi@aldan.star89.galstar.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/905: vi misbehaving or fmt's man page lies Message-ID: <199512191542.KAA09403@aldan> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.951219132447.6360g@ucvg.med.utah.edu>
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>Number: 905
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: vi misbehaving or fmt's man page lies
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 19 07:50:01 PST 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Mikhail Teterin
>Organization:
Kozache, kozache. Zhittja tvoe sobache...
>Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Environment:
>Description:
===> Here is from fmt's man page:
Fmt is meant to format mail messages prior to sending, but may also be
useful for other simple tasks. For instance, within visual mode of the
ex(1) editor (e.g. vi(1)) the command
!}fmt
will reformat a paragraph, evening the lines.
===> Here is what happens when the command is issued on vi's :-prompt:
}fmt: Command not found.
}fmt: exited with status 1.
Enter return to continue:
>How-To-Repeat:
See description
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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