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Subject: vi misbehaving or fmt's man page lies
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>Number:         905
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vi misbehaving or fmt's man page lies
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 19 07:50:01 PST 1995
>Closed-Date:    Sat Dec 23 07:01:07 PST 1995
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 27 18:52:36 PST 2001
>Originator:     Mikhail Teterin
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Kozache, kozache. Zhittja tvoe sobache...
>Environment:


>Description:

===>	Here is from fmt's man page:
     Fmt is meant to format mail messages prior to sending, but may also be
     useful for other simple tasks.  For instance, within visual mode of the
     ex(1) editor (e.g.  vi(1))  the command

           !}fmt

     will reformat a paragraph, evening the lines.
===>	Here is what happens when the command is issued on vi's :-prompt:
	}fmt: Command not found.
	}fmt: exited with status 1.
	Enter return to continue: 

>How-To-Repeat:

	See description

>Fix:
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: markm 
State-Changed-When: Sat Dec 23 07:01:07 PST 1995 
State-Changed-Why:  
This was pilot error on the part of the reporter. He was typing :!}fmt 
(note the colon). 
>Unformatted:
