From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 07:48:33 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 E7570106567F for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:48:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBD428FC1E for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:48:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 29F9FE80451; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:32:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Zhihao Yuan Message-ID: <20110323073234.GA17217@thought.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:48:34 -0000 On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:39:44AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I > used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to > improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different: > I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared (or mbyte-mode tunable, > like tcsh), so that it can deal with more encodings. Can that be a > GSoC project proposal? > I'm only speaking for myself [obviously], but I think this would be an excellent idea. I'm using nvi on my FreeBSD server; works fine. But using it on my Ubuntu desktop dails because the "default vi" is vim. vim and nvi are incompat. Having using vi since the earth was formed, I am waaaay stuck with it. Please do keep me posted if you rxpand nvi. gary kline > -- > Zhihao Yuan > The best way to predict the future is to invent it. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org