From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 9 14:47:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B30B37B403 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 14:47:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id AC3EB62D0A; Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:47:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:47:15 -0500 From: GH To: Bill Fenner Cc: ticso@mail.cicely.de, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010709164715.F85805@over-yonder.net> References: <200107072203.PAA09299@windsor.research.att.com> <20010708005155.J8775@canonware.com> <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010709150739.A23210@cicely20.cicely.de> <200107091817.LAA16879@windsor.research.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200107091817.LAA16879@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:17:16AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:17:16AM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > > >What is wrong with nvi? > > Two things that are wrong with what we have: > - "vi -r" failures, such as "failed to recover line NNNN". I think this > is the bug that Keith says required DB3 to fix. > - Dumping core when the information about the user running vi goes away > between starting vi and making the first change requiring creation of > a recovery file (see FreeBSD PR 3170). > > I run into the first one way too often. The second one isn't much of a > problem for me any more since our NIS servers at AT&T are pretty reliable. How are people planning to maintain functional and semantic compatible with nvi upon switching to a new 'vi'? 'nvi' and I have become very close friends and it troubles me to think of what would happen to anyone coming between us. > Bill gh -- > What, no one sings along with Ricky Martin anymore? My kid sister does (but then, she prefers pico to vi ...) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian, alt.sysadmin.recovery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message