[Gllug] VI gone weird

[Bruce Richardson]

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On 1/16/02, 2:47:09 PM, Stephen Harker <steve at pauken.co.uk> wrote regarding 
[Gllug] VI gone weird:


> What does this mean? Every time I close a file in vi it pops up this
> message. ????

> viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^D1F0
> viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^H^_!p~D½¤ð^DÏ ^D4@@
> viminfo: Illegal starting char in line: ^D
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue

> Hint: It only started doing it after a kernel freeze and a hard reset
> so I am assuming there is a file corruption somewhere....

In the ~/.viminfo file, most likely.  Delete or rename the file and see 
what happens.

And in vim type

:help viminfo

-- 

Bruce

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