Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:08:40 +0900 From: Sangwoo Shim <sangwoos@gmail.com> To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Oleg Petrov <dsacode@yandex.ru> Subject: Re: nvi for serious hacking Message-ID: <4cbd01f40510171008x42b4738bi@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051017144920.GA597@gothic.blackend.org> References: <4352D860.000002.03681@tide.yandex.ru> <20051017144920.GA597@gothic.blackend.org>
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2005/10/17, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@freebsd.org>: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote: > > Hello, FreeBSD people. > > > > First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it > > for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable > > with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't > > default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second, > > remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small > > Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember. > > But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default > > `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default > > and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism. > > > > So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general > > editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate: > > > > I'd say "s/nvi/vim" (see http://www.vim.org/) if you want to really do > everything with your Vi. Actually the first thing that I do after minimal installing of new system is to install vim from the ports tree. (in fact, installing cvsup, of course :-) I remember once upon a time someone (david?) made a suggestion that nvi in our tree should be changed to vim-lite(or something.) I'm tend to agree with that.. (Although vim is GPL'd, nvi is in the src/contrib anyway..) Regards, Sangwoo Shim > > Marc > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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