Package: nvi
Version: 1.81.6-4
Severity: normal
The expansion of numbered backups is incorrect. The actual expansion
that nvi produces is somewhat random. I get the weirdest results when
editing from the linux console, logged in as root. The expansion of
numbered backups used to work correctly with nvi 1.79 version.
Here is a typescript that reproduces the this bug,
# echo hi >xx
# grep backup .nvirc
" backup - create versioned backup `file.~N' before each write.
set backup=N%..~
# nvi xx
# ls -l xx*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Jun 26 14:00 xx
-rw------- 1 root root 3 Jun 26 14:00 xxx.~1
note that in the above example, the ".." is expanded by nvi to ".", so
that in this case I have discovered a workaround. However, sometimes
the "..~" gets expanded to "tmp" or "etc", possibly related to the
pathname of the file being edited, ie, the expansion of "%".
Thanks,
Jeffrey Sheinberg
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nvi depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52+dfsg-5 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages nvi recommends:
ii nvi-doc 1.81.6-4 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi - d
nvi suggests no packages.
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