https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205697
Bug ID: 205697
Summary: vi gets confused and corrupts file being edited
Product: Base System
Version: 10.2-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: hei...@suonsivu.net
I was editing a file with vi, and got
Error: ?!: Illegal byte sequence; ?!: WARNING: FILE TRUNCATED.
After this, it refused to save the file. In middle of the file there was ~ one
one line. However, any attempt to edit that line caused error
Error: unable to retrieve line 7
The line could not be removed or edited.
This is nasty as it destroys the file being edited.
I recovered the file from backup, and I get
paypal: unmodified: line 1; Conversion error on line 7
I might have missed that error when starting to edit.
This is plain text file. If vi has some magic for UTF8 or whatever, it should
never go confused, and simply switch locate to C with appropriate warning
message.
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