Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:30:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: Petersen <petersen@fully.qualified.domain.name>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A vi for /bin? Message-ID: <20030126023004.GG18454@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <p05210202ba58f08ccec6@[165.227.249.18]> References: <KOEDJPGCNAIOODFOCJJIEEAIGDAA.petersen@fully.qualified.domain.name> <p05210202ba58f08ccec6@[165.227.249.18]>
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In the last episode (Jan 25), Paul Hoffman said: > At 1:36 AM +0000 1/26/03, Petersen wrote: > >Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> I'm kinda surprised this isn't in the FAQ (or at least not in a > >> place that I could find it). It is really impossible to build a vi > >> with no external dependencies that can be installed in /bin? > > > >What made you think it was impossible? > > The book "FreeBSD" by Anderson (which was highly recommended by some) > says so on page 371. I'm glad to hear that's wrong. One major problem is that without /usr, you have no termcap file. You might want to install e3, which is only 13k statically linked and uses generic ANSI escape codes so it doesn't need a termcap file. If run as e3vi, it acceptes vi keystrokes. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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