Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:26:07 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi Message-ID: <AANLkTimDnA6jdj-MR7J2EGAQFn=%2BRrS9h32N5UWkaDUs@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=Y-z-Rt0cnd3MRg0JoSWJmhC3Uh2b32Bosgfi@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTintkKzW=o%2B7Q53aMSpA1mmqC7aDF1wN8zHY_Wc%2B@mail.gmail.com> <86mxkm1erm.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTin3Wki6bnriNgWUy5JC68MDMVc4Y444tGWcKBQ7@mail.gmail.com> <86aaglx1ow.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTikLbU--J2aVa00tzxWb9GAvjfGnUGovwYaXXqhp@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimKzTrLA%2BW4a73D=aS8fy9npeqvrS8Ua3oNKrjf@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTin=Y-z-Rt0cnd3MRg0JoSWJmhC3Uh2b32Bosgfi@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> 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
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