[Gllug] VI gone weird

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 16 January 2002 15:34, you wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> 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
Brilliant! It was actually only doing this as superuser (which I 
hadn't realised until now) and the /root/.viminfo file was complete 
garbage. Like %$£*(£")*&)*&()*!!!!(*&$((*&&&&&^*$%  for pages and 
pages.
Thanks
Stephen
PS That's about 3 Guiness's now I think Bruce.
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Stephen Harker
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