From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 3 07:03:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA00276 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 07:03:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA00249 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 07:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de) by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V5.0-4 #13110) id <01I49NKOWTGG0037YE@mail.rwth-aachen.de> for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Fri, 03 May 1996 11:44:50 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA17658 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Fri, 03 May 1996 10:59:28 +0200 Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 10:59:28 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Subject: vi :a screws tty To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Message-id: <199605030859.KAA17658@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone typed :a in vi command mode? Happens to me occasionally when I miss the q. I didn't find a way to get out of that trap other than killing the process. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de