Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:32:05 -0500 From: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi Message-ID: <AANLkTin=Y-z-Rt0cnd3MRg0JoSWJmhC3Uh2b32Bosgfi@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimKzTrLA%2BW4a73D=aS8fy9npeqvrS8Ua3oNKrjf@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTintkKzW=o%2B7Q53aMSpA1mmqC7aDF1wN8zHY_Wc%2B@mail.gmail.com> <86mxkm1erm.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTin3Wki6bnriNgWUy5JC68MDMVc4Y444tGWcKBQ7@mail.gmail.com> <86aaglx1ow.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTikLbU--J2aVa00tzxWb9GAvjfGnUGovwYaXXqhp@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimKzTrLA%2BW4a73D=aS8fy9npeqvrS8Ua3oNKrjf@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Pan Tsu <inyaoo@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> writes: >>>> I'm not sure whether the FreeBSD system administrators (who opens 100 >>>> ssh sessions) agree with that to replace the nvi in base system with >>>> this one. >>> >>> Do they expect more features beyond POSIX vi? >> >> Like multiple windows. This has been discussed y other BSDs before. >> > For the reference, on the Linux side, busybox do all what an admin > would reasonably expect (I mean _all_ the basic userland, not just > editing text) in a binary smaller than nvi. Now, it's true that _you_ > might not care about size/bloat, at least accept that some do. > > =C2=A0- Arnaud > Among *all* the GNU/Linux distributions I used, they include a vim compiled in tiny mode (ln -s it to vi), which doubles the size of nvi, in their base systems. A vim.tiny contains much more features compared with nvi, but it's not compatible with POSIX vi. --=20 Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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