ex: 0602-140 The window is too small to display the current line.
Lessons learned for today:
- don't use vi on AIX. It sucks. When it comes to handling lines that are too long for vi, it will switch to ex mode. And ex mode can't join lines when the result would be longer than 2048 characters.
- don't use 4096 bit DSA keys when you have to paste it into the authorized_keys2 file on an AIX machine when you don't have any other editor than vi.
Update: I tried joining the lines with
ed, the very first editor on Unix. Not even
ed can cope with very long lines. Now I remember why I don't like the original Unices: because of their arbitrary limits. Or to say it in the words of the MTV generation: "I want my V.I.M.!"