Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:06:23 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh Message-ID: <20031205200623.GB60766@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200312042359.hB4Nx0FI005943@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <200312041943.hB4JhK6I007082@green.bikeshed.org> <200312042359.hB4Nx0FI005943@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:59:00AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > "Brian F. Feldman" writes: > > Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > BTW, robert, if you already think of terms to "waste" time > > > for loadable editor modules ... the only thing I'm really > > > missing in standard vi is an extended command line with > > > - history function > > > - save history and > > > - editable like everything other compiled and linked with readline lib. ... > > I don't think it would be exactly the most trivial thing to give nvi > > vi-command-history, but it's certainly worth doing. It doesn't use ... > (x)vile already has functionality to edit thiings like search patterns > and file names (using the arrow keys to move around). It also keeps > track of quite a few of the last search patterns and allows scrolling > through them using the arrow keys. Vim has all this, that's how it got as big as it is -- people make lists like the above and the Vim author responds. So if we're going to import [x]vile, we should import Vim instead as its got a larger FreeBSD userbase. That said, I don't see us importing any 'vi' clones, so why is another editor to import being suggested? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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