Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:06:45 -0400 From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> 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: <20110714140645.GA60562@pix.net> 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: > 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. Bzzt. I've used the perl interpreter before on a project. In that case, we were using vi as an editor for some very large text fields that were handled via perl to retrieve/store them into a database, done through a DBI proxy daemon. We could do multiple edits this way, without having to capture the field to a scratch file, invoke vi on it, again and again. One persistant vi... At the time, the speed mattered. > 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? I don't really care that the perl/tcl integration stays or goes, but it's certainly not "never been used". -Kurt
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