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Subject: Re: vi dumping the core...
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> 
> vi
> <enter the editor>
> ^\ (switch to ex mode)
> hit ^\ again
> 
> *plop*
> 
> This has been tested on 3.1 on various machines and on 2.2.6.  Not a big
> deal except one of my keyboards stutters so I lost a little bit of work.

	This doesn't occur on true VI (4.3BSD).
	I confirm that it does happen on a FreeBSD 2.2.5 machine.



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