From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 3 14:15:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA12374 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 14:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (root@linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12366 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 14:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uni4nn.iaf.nl (root@uni4nn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.33]) by linux4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA15175; Fri, 3 May 1996 23:15:55 +0200 Received: by uni4nn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA09900 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Fri, 3 May 1996 23:15:32 +0200 Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA25730 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Fri, 3 May 1996 22:37:45 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.6.12/8.6.6) id UAA01482; Fri, 3 May 1996 20:34:02 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199605031834.UAA01482@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands Subject: Re: vi :a screws tty To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 20:34:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605030859.KAA17658@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph P. Kukulies" at May 3, 96 10:59:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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. Try typing a . as the first char on a new line... (ed rules :-) Wilko _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands --------------------------------------------------------------------------------