Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I try to reformat a paragraph, with the command '!}fmt', in elvis, > core is dumped. When I do it in vim or nvi, I get garbage instead of a > reformatted paragraph. I tried reinstalling (and rebuilding the .deb > package for) elv-fmt and the same effects were noted.
I'll look at this -- probably tonight. > I had to re-install textutils in order to get a working /usr/bin/fmt. > NB, the fmt in textutils seems to work with elvis, nvi, and vim. > Is there any reason to have elv-fmt instead of the GNU fmt? If there > is some reason, then some note in elv-fmt's description (at least) > should alert that textutils has another (possibly better) version of > /usr/bin/fmt. There was once a bug report against textutils fmt that it did a buggy fmt -- sometimes producing very poor results. elvis fmt did a much better job in those cases. I'm not sure of the current status of that bug (and can't reach the web site to check at the moment). > [Now that I purged elv-fmt, I notice that usr/doc/copyright/elvis has > been deleted as well. I had to re-install elv-vi in order to get the > copyright notice back. Well this might be a dpkg problem, I don't > know.] That's almost certainly my fault. I'll look at that as well. > This is with debian 0.93R6 + plus a few packages from 1.0 (but I > haven't upgraded to ELF yet, so that's not it). I'll upload an a.out package revision if I fix anything. An elf package will have to wait until elf ncurses is available and stable.
