"111 fewer lines in file after visual" ????

[Steven Kilbane]

>From article <1989Jul31.033232.23443 at ntvax.uucp>, by canoaf at ntvax.uucp (Augustine Cano):
> What did I do?  What does "111 lines in file after visual" mean?
> 
> While in vi, I hit some key sequence that generated the above message.
> Can anybody explain what it means and how to replicate it?

I _think_ I know what happened, so I thought I'd put my head on the block for
all the vi gurus out there....

Basically, vi is part of a family of editors, and they don't all operate in
full-screen "visual" mode. Vi does by default, and the -v option on the others
persuades them to.

^$ (on my terminal - may differ on others) will put you back into line-editing
mode, and if you've deleted 111 lines from the file since you entered
full-screen mode when you ^$, you get the message you received.

You can, I assume, get back into full-screen mode. I haven't guessed how, and
I'm fair to lazy to read the manual. Me? I save the file and re-vi it.....

Uh-oh - I can hear the flame-throwers igniting....

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