On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 09:03, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > 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?
For the record, the culprit is nvi (and mate-terminal). When mate-terminal crashes (and this should not happen) obviously also nvi crashes. For some reason, nvi creates multiple recovery files in /tmp (and this shouldn't happen either). So, for the time being, I have abandoned my educational purposes and will stick with vim. Thanks for making a great editor. -- 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/CAEJNuHywJ-oDxqQ%3DwrC0ifqtiQ0AC_XheS69Gq%3DgLbHsJOFGAw%40mail.gmail.com.