Hi, Maybe this is off-topic but I hope you guys can help, as there's no specific maling list for classic vi/nvi.
On my system (Linux/amd64 Debian 4.9.189) I have: - vim (vim 8.1) - vi (aliased to vim) - nvi (nvi-1.81.6nb5 ) For self-educational purposes, I've been trying to teach myself to use both vim and nvi, as I'm studying for a BSD-related certification, where old vi is installed by default. So, to a certain extent, I am looking for trouble, however... I have a file (man-pages.txt) where I have a list of man pages that I need to expand, for example: man 8 tcpdump man 1 login man 8 sysctl man 8 adduser man 5 adduser.conf man 8 rmuser man 8 useradd man 8 userdel and so on. When I am finished with reading a man page, I cut the first line and I paste to the last line, so: 1) dd 2) [shift] + g 3) p And I've been doing this for a few months. Sometimes I use vim and some other times nvi. At one point, I noticed that the size of this file was growing abnormally. Then, I realised that the entries were in duplicate or triplicate copies, that is, as if I had copied the whole file and then pasted it twice onto itself. I removed the duplicate lines and started from scratch and, as a proof of concept, alternated between vim and nvi, just to see if this would happen again, and indeed it did. I wonder if somebody has a clue why this happens. Is this something I should expect? Is there a markup that one editor places that confuses the other? Thanks -- Ottavio Caruso -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAEJNuHxa9%2BhNdpV4vq1FixmDg_-pbLF5WgZvFjMXDsKQv%2BGHTQ%40mail.gmail.com.