Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:13:56 +0100 From: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi Message-ID: <20110323091356.GA9549@lexx.ifp.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTintkKzW=o%2B7Q53aMSpA1mmqC7aDF1wN8zHY_Wc%2B@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTintkKzW=o%2B7Q53aMSpA1mmqC7aDF1wN8zHY_Wc%2B@mail.gmail.com>
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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? > +1 here! ports/editors/nvi-devel is another starting point here. As far as I understand it is a further development of nvi which is in base. What I don't like about it is a dependency on databases/db3 and changed (worse, in my opinion) handling of keystrokes in 'insert' mode. But it is iconv-aware implementation already. My 0.02$, Alexey.
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