[15367] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0L: vi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Kaminer)
Sun Aug 10 14:19:40 1997
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:19:37 EDT
From: Martin Kaminer <iguana@MIT.EDU>
System name: mass-toolpike
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.0L (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Use comp with vi as the default editor to create and send email
over dialup.
What's wrong:
Two things. First of all, I notice that frequently if I've used
shell escapes within vi, when I go to send the draft whatnow
bombs with a 'problems with draft' message and I have to send the
thing manually using send. This condition has improved somewhat
recently (perhaps) but still happens a lot.
Second, if I get thrown off a dialup session becuase of flaky
phone lines, etc, vi no longer seems to save my work. I used to
get an email when I logged back on from either postmaster@mit.edu
or from my username telling me to use vi -r. This no longer
works. Sometimes I see a fleeting message, something about
"unable to create foobar in /preserve" or something like that.
This condition is really serious - I've lost sizeable messages.
What should have happened:
Life should be pleasant
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
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Thanks,
Martin Kaminer
