Re: Triplicate text after mix-matching vim and nvi

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 09:03, Ottavio Caruso
<ottavio2006-usenet2012@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.


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