Weird problem with vi... "Not that many lines in buffer"

[Steven A. Conrad]

In article <508 at icus.islp.ny.us> Lenny Tropiano writes:
>I just created this .signature file, and for some reason every time this
>is in a file, and I do a "vi" of that file I get the following message...
>
>".signature" 4 lines of 300 characters Not that many lines in buffer


The problem occurs on my 3B1 as well.  I tracked it down to the phrase
'Telex: 154232...'.  If you change the colon to something else, you
don't get the message.  It is interesing that the end of Telex: is
'ex:', so maybe vi is trying to interpret embedded code (I never knew it
could!).  I don't have time to run this down further, but if anyone does,
please let me know what you find.

	Steve Conrad

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