From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 00:26:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DF9106566C for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:26:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lacombar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582EA8FC14 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:26:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyj12 with SMTP id 12so11012977iyj.13 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:26:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3Mct6zAm3TBIRfPR+xcDLfkYqCSJbNUzP2AfRHjVCQM=; b=KqR7JMqOotKyIvbkBybIWmn1t74SoyJYIvPUlpsXb0QqYmZPUjNQCYSWmDF+AyFuTJ URC7LZXkxq4Hh6TWTkGXJkFDNtxkM74eQc3CKjPndl3gxKZ2HcN4KbOeP5qLiU2HPUxs 6NBlkIEBx/37KlXShDzltcMYXi7hdXA4ctfPY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Wrq9YlfRu8w8++G1zxq+FXhIZICZIRwdLLBvT4JJPP41zfURfcsAnOPhj80rO3ccw8 qTYq8kp3OPKu6fgGwyvyEVnKLyHvNQJ0/fQ018PJq22qM1+YkH0xlmHbO2GchVTDx41f i9donnxemxTy27BvDXy5yTjrJEBxGj+LwsZb4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.219.65 with SMTP id ht1mr3414777icb.14.1300926367533; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.146.72 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:26:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <86mxkm1erm.fsf@gmail.com> <86aaglx1ow.fsf@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:26:07 -0400 Message-ID: From: Arnaud Lacombe To: Zhihao Yuan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pan Tsu Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:26:08 -0000 Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > Among *all* the GNU/Linux distributions I used, they include a vim > compiled in tiny mode (ln -s it to vi), which doubles the size of nvi, > in their base systems. A vim.tiny contains much more features compared > with nvi, but it's not compatible with POSIX vi. > Let's compare the comparable, I don't really care if PCbsd ship vim as its default, but FreeBSD as the base is not only aimed at desktop specifically. So you should take into account that I may want to run FreeBSD on an adm5120 board with 32MB of RAM, without having a text editor consuming too much disk-space/ram. - Arnaud