Here is a Pico story for ya. Years ago, on an SGI IRIX machine, the version of Pico on there had a nasty habit of
truncating lines. I had a script that ran
off of a data file we selected special out of a DB. The select was done at a particular time and then the DB moved on. The last field was a number and each line was about 255
characters wide. With the return on the end, the line was
1 chracter too long so it chopped one digit off the end of
every integer and put the return back on. OUCH! That is a
high price to pay for quickly fixing the spelling of someone's name
It also took the else {} chunk off of a giant long line once but I
pretty much blame that on the author not the editor. =)
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