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Date:      Thu, 05 Sep 2013 00:38:08 +0200
From:      olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The Original VI ?
Message-ID:  <5227B650.4020200@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <5596.1378331810@server1.tristatelogic.com>
References:  <5596.1378331810@server1.tristatelogic.com>

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On 2013-09-04 23:56, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> I've just been fiddling with some unicode/utf-8 stuff, and managed
> to figure out how to get both xterm and more (aka less) to properly
> deal with utf-8 characters.  It then occured to me that it might be
> nice if I could cut and paste utf-8 stuff into vi, which is the text
> editor that I happen to use.
> 
> After a quick bit of googling I found this:
> 
>   http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.editors/2011-03/msg00010.html
> 
> Apparently, it is correct that FreeBSD distributes nvi as vi (and as
> far as I can tell, that _does not_ currently support utf-8), but I
> sort-of thought that maybe this "original" vi, now with unicode support,
> had at least made it into the ports tree, but I can't seem to find it there.
> 
> Am I wrong?  Is it in there?  If so, where please?

try editors/nvi-devel



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