Re: vi: silence Invalid range with +n

Urs Janssen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:

Joerg Mertens wrote:

# vi -c'$' file
 
So you can just ignore the %N.

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... wich also won't work with followups, by the way.
Sorry for the noise.

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vim -c":silent! +%N" %F
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should work for vim/nvi

vim has it, but nvi does not, so perhaps the original vi did neither.
In nvi, which claims include a bug-for-bug reimplementation of vi,
`silent' is not documented and does not work.