topic Line too long error in Operating System - HP-UX

Line too long error

Milan Muralidharan — Fri, 12 May 2000 20:41:49 GMT

in vi editor trying to add a line with about 1000 characters long. But getting the message: Line too long. Appreciate your details.

Re: Line too long error

Navied Yousuf — Mon, 15 May 2000 12:57:02 GMT

Greetings,

The number of charaters per line limit in vi is 2044, specified by LINE_MAX (value is 2048) that is defined in limits.h header file. This is valid for HP-UX 10.20 and 11.0 releases. It is even valid for 9.x.
Are you sure that you don't have more than 2044 characters in the line.
Last section of vi man page refers to this.
NY

Re: Line too long error

Matthias Feiler — Sat, 20 May 2000 11:07:56 GMT

The vi clone VIM has a line length limit
of 2147483647 characters and also features
many other goodies. Binaries ready to be
installed on HP-UX are downloadable from
this website:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Editors/vim-5.6/

Matthias