Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:47:15 -0500 From: GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: ticso@mail.cicely.de, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvi maintainer? Message-ID: <20010709164715.F85805@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <200107091817.LAA16879@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:17:16AM -0700 References: <200107072203.PAA09299@windsor.research.att.com> <xzp3d88s3o0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010708005155.J8775@canonware.com> <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010709150739.A23210@cicely20.cicely.de> <200107091817.LAA16879@windsor.research.att.com>
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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
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