Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:43:52 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd@psconsult.nl> Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi Message-ID: <20110326094352.GJ65750@cicely7.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimUA2y8c2rMSpGH9z0fRq47KNka=qUMZgTi9D=5@mail.gmail.com> References: <86mxkm1erm.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTin3Wki6bnriNgWUy5JC68MDMVc4Y444tGWcKBQ7@mail.gmail.com> <86aaglx1ow.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTikLbU--J2aVa00tzxWb9GAvjfGnUGovwYaXXqhp@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimKzTrLA%2BW4a73D=aS8fy9npeqvrS8Ua3oNKrjf@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTin=Y-z-Rt0cnd3MRg0JoSWJmhC3Uh2b32Bosgfi@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimDnA6jdj-MR7J2EGAQFn=%2BRrS9h32N5UWkaDUs@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinuQG2ew4R81861Ei7Czds0pGVFaD4ExheFpnnE@mail.gmail.com> <20110326084537.GA18254@psconsult.nl> <AANLkTimUA2y8c2rMSpGH9z0fRq47KNka=qUMZgTi9D=5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:55:12AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd@psconsult.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:20:07PM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I like the idea of adding Unicode support to nvi but I hate the idea of > > replacing nvi in the base system by something else. I've been there > > before, when administering a heterogenous environment with Unix, BSD and > > Linux systems, being a heavy user of vi, it's frustrating if commands in > > various versions of vi do not behave *exactly* the same, e.g. different > > versions of vi leave the cursor in different places after undo, the > > effect of the repeat command (.) after an undo command, the availability > > or not to do something like /pattern/z. to find and position the found > > text in the middle of the screen so you can immediately see the context. > > > > Administering hundreds of FreeBSD systems at various sites would become > > a nightmare if frequently used utilities in the base system do not > > behave exactly the same between different builds, a true POLA violation > > I think. I truly hope that adding unicode to nvi doesn't change the > > behaviour of nvi, at least not when not using actually Unicode. > > I will improve nvi only, and I won't break the traditional functions. > But your words reminds me that, perhaps the move of cursor is a > problem for a mbytes-enabled vi. We will see. It especially is if characters are double wide on output, which happens at least with some chinese ones. I really hope you will find a mentor soon enough. -- B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.
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