Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:08:48 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu>, bvsmith@lbl.gov, ports%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, gj%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, me%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu, asami%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: xfig.3.1.4 extension to support vi -C signals linkage Message-ID: <199608121108.NAA16978@vector.jhs.no_domain> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Aug 1996 22:48:19 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960811224439.3409B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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Hi, Reference:
> From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
>
> On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >
> > > I have developed an extension to xfig.3.1.4 (Ref. freebsd/ports/graphics/
- xfig)
> > > that allows an adjacent xterm running 'vi' to send a signal on each ':w'
> > > that xfig interprets as a re-open & redisplay command.
> > >
> > > This mechanism is compatible with my previous work on vi ghostview & chim
- era.
> >
> > I like the matchup, I wonder if there's some way to make something like
> > this work inside the standard ports setup. There's not port of nvi (Keith
> > Bostic's latest version of vi) although it compiles easily on FreeBSD. Do
> > you have pointers to your work on ghostview and and chimera?
> >
>
> How about making it a separate, local port that would depend on the
> presence of xfig and build a new xfig? Just like tclX does...
Well my diffs are very small, hardly affect the size of the executables,
& functionality is fully backward compatible, so I'd rather the original
authors of
nvi chimera ghostview & xfig eventually swallowed them into their sources.
I suppose one could make a port of it all, but I can't say I feel the urge,
as it all is FreeBSD ports/*/*/patches compatible, & when a few people
have tried it & like it, the {nvi chimera ghostview & xfig} authors may
well be lobbied by said happy users to accept the few small diffs involved :-)
At that point any identical diffs in FreeBSD/ports/*/*/patches could be
removed.
However if someone wants to bundle it all as a port (or ports)
& the majority approve, .... no actual objection here, just seems
rather an unusual idea to me :-)
Julian
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Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/
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