On 09.09.14 22:16, Bill wrote:
Thanks very much Erik,
We all try to throw a small lump of cheese back into the fondue, now and then.
The problem solved. Didn't know this trick of vi.
TBT, venerable traditional vi can't do everything that we take for granted in the modern "vi" which is included in distros today. If on e.g ubuntu 10.04.1 you try: $ vi --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 it reveals itself to be vim, i.e. vi on steroids. And in vim: :help ff chucks up a help window, which admits that the fileformat capability is "{not in Vi}". (But a genuine ancient vi can only be encountered in the older pyramids at Ghiza, where the source code is bound to be found inscribed on the walls, I think.) I'm not sure that it's possible to master all that vim (or emacs) can do, but it's enough fun to pick up what makes life easier as we go. When I figured out how to set up text folding to suit my needs, the improvement in big documents was giddying.
The script is working very well now.
Ah, Richard's snapshot diagnosis was spot on, then. Erik -- The future is a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells