minor vi bug (and possible fix)

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 26 15:11:02 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:41 AM, John Greco <greco at drexel.edu> wrote:
> I've noticed that busybox's vi doesn't handle <count>$ like other vi
> implementations.  From Vim's help section on $:
>
> $  or <End>      To the end of the line.  When a count is given also go
>                 [count - 1] lines downward |inclusive|.
>
> This behaviour is also mentioned in:
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html>
>
> Busybox's vi does not act on any count given for $.
>
> A very simple one line fix could be:
>
>        case '$':                       // $- goto end of line
>        case KEYCODE_END:               // Cursor Key End
>                if (cmdcnt-- > 1) {
> +                       dot_next();
>                        do_cmd(c);
>                }                               // repeat cnt
>                dot = end_line(dot);

Applied, thanks!
-- 
vda


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