Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:49:17 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi Message-ID: <20110714064917.GB74835@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <CAGsORuBve81wbYM5EXkF01TaRbgoJKO%2B13Rs-MauzQA87X7_7w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGsORuBve81wbYM5EXkF01TaRbgoJKO%2B13Rs-MauzQA87X7_7w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > Hi hackers, > > I'm doing my GSoC project, "Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi" at > https://github.com/lichray/nvi2 . Currently, the editor can support > read/display/write multibyte encoding through iconv. Before adding > more features like file encoding detection, I want to remove some > features in nvi. > > First, gtags mode. This feature was imported by > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/global-commit/2005-01/msg00002.html > . There's no gtags in our base system, and I can't find it in ports. > This feature is useless (nvi-1.8x does not have it) and unexpected in > the code (GTAGS macro everywhere). In a word, I want to remove it. > > Second, the perl/tcl interpreter support; you can apply a perl/tcl > command to the file whiling you are editing. I beg no one here used > this feature before. If the logic is simple, you can use subst; if > it's not, you'd better write a script and run perl/tcl outside. I > regard it as feature creep, and I don't like it. > > Any comments? what you suggest makes perfect sense. I'd also like to commend the attitude: not just say that you don't like something, but also do proper investigation and give sensible motivations for your likes or dislikes. Bravo. cheers luigi > -- > Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray > The best way to predict the future is to invent it. > ___________________________________________________ > 4BSD -- http://4bsd.biz/ > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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