Re: [vile] bug/change with editing multiple files

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 10:30:14AM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> Greetings.   I just found an issue with vile 9.8n and vile 9.8q .

I'm trying this with 9.8p


> I still have an old copy of 9.8 , and the problem isn't there.
> 
> Create a directory, and put in ten files named a b c ... j .
> 
> vi *
> 
> (You are now editing file a)
> 
> Use :n a few times, and you will cycle through all of the files, until you
> get to file j , and then you will get the "No more files to edit" message.
> 
??  I don't get a message, it just cycles round to file a again.

> Now, exit and
> 
> vi *
> 
> (You are now editing file a)
> 
> Use :n to edit file b, then type
> 
> :e e
> 
> (to edit file e)
> 
> Now use :n a few times, and you will again cycle through files c, d, e, f,
> all the way to j.
> 
> One more time, quit and
> 
> vi *
> 
> (You are editing file a)
> 
> Immediately use
> 
> :e e
> 
> to edit file e, and then use :n.  You will go to files f, g, h, i, and j.
> In this instance, where the first thing you do is :e , you lose :n access
> to the files you skipped over.
> 
I don't see your symptoms in version 9.8p, it always reverts to the
original sequence of files whether I do ':e e' at the beginning or
some of the way through.


> This may be the kind of thing only I do.  I manage a sports web site,
> and I have a bunch of files, one for each team.  I edit the first file,
> then I edit the opponent of that first file, since they have the same
> results.  Then I would normally use :n to edit the second file.  But
> now I can't. :(
> 

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Chris Green