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From: Adam David <adam@veda.is>
Subject: Re: bin/2001: vi confused about lines to display
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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