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Version Location Description Submitted By
Printed Page 5
2nd para

One or two characters are used for the basidIp commands.
should be:
One or two characters are used for the basic commands.

ron wickersham 
Printed Page 107 f.
mapping example 2

At the end of the example a solution to the problem where the two words occur at the end of a line is given, but this solution doesn't work: the second `w' command can't move to the next word (because there is none), thus the cursor is at the last character of the second word when `P' is executed; this results in the first word being inserted just before the last character of the second word. And that's definitely not what was intended ;-)

A real solution would e.g. be

map K wdebi ^[Pwelx

This works no matter where the two words occur on the line.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 179
heading for third paragraph

This may be more serious, but the paragraph heading indicates a discussion of "Conditional Split Commands" -- plural. The paragraph only discusses the ':topleft cmd' command. (Although the ':vertical' command is alluded to in a table on page 186, it is not discussed here.)

Anonymous 
Printed Page 181
Table 11-2 Window navigation commands

In the fourth item from the bottom of the table, the capital W is missing from the 'Ctrl-W W' command (move to next window above or to the left).

Anonymous 
Printed Page 191
second paragraph

Both of the first two paragraphs on this page purport to describe the 'Ctrl-W g f' command, but I believe the second one meant to be the 'Ctrl-W g F' command instead.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 205
fourth paragraph (actually a paragraph seems to be missing!)

In the array version of the 'SetTimeOfDayColors()' script, everything is going along okay until the code itself is put forth. There are suddenly two lines of code that are not explained in any way -- not even to say they are beyond the scope of this book. From a group that explain other codes in such detail as in the 'LastMod()' example on page 214, something seems to be amiss. The reader is left to wonder where 'echo' and'redraw' are.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 208
Figure 12-3 File type of new file detected AND fourth paragraph

The '!' in '#!/bin/sh' is invisible in the grey-scale image of the figure. It is just plain missing in the discussion of this figure in the fourth paragraph. (But it is in the input instructions from paragraph 2!)

Anonymous 
Printed Page 443
The Towers of Hanoi, vi Version

The ``map A'' command has no righthandside in the given code. It should probably read

map A "fyl

instead.

Jukka Salmi