Here's how to stop shell escapes from vi

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <935 at mwtech.UUCP> martin at mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:

>If you have two minutes time, please try the following: 2000i-<esc>
>This should construct a line of 2000 characters, which is above the
>limits at least my vi (386/ix Rel 2.0.2) can handle. Then insert
>another character into this line ... and whoops, vi throws you into
>ex-mode.

>Nice feature - who would ever have thought? Possibly some user which
>you carefully tried to keep away from ex-prompts knows this little
>"feature" (who said it is a bug?).

Yep, not to mention the "tmp file too large" problem that everyone
that has ever used vi knows about.  It just takes a little more
work to make that one happen.

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us