From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 14 06:32:18 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 ACB751065677 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:32:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luigi@onelab2.iet.unipi.it) Received: from onelab2.iet.unipi.it (onelab2.iet.unipi.it [131.114.59.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743DD8FC12 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by onelab2.iet.unipi.it (Postfix, from userid 275) id E34B57300A; Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:49:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:49:17 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Zhihao Yuan Message-ID: <20110714064917.GB74835@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi 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: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 06:32:18 -0000 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"