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From: Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc>
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Subject: Re: vi: silence Invalid range with +n
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:53:20 -0000 (UTC)
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Urs Janssen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:
>Joerg Mertens wrote:
>>> # vi -c'$' file
>>> 
>>> So you can just ignore the %N.
>>
>>... wich also won't work with followups, by the way.
>> Sorry for the noise.
>
>vim -c":silent! +%N" %F
>
>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.