Fun with nvi

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sun Aug 11 08:35:29 UTC 2013


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:33:20AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> I've been tinkering with the nvi refresh from the GSoC in 2011, aka nvi2.
> 
> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/zy/1
> https://github.com/lichray/nvi2
> 
> The goal was to update the multibyte handling in nvi-1.79 (the one we
> have in our tree) in such a way we could import it.

Yes, please do something about our base(1) being unable to talk in anything
non-ASCII.  I'm using editors/nvi-devel now, which was WIDECHAR option, and
was wondering why those changes were never imported into the base.

How is nvi 1.81.6 (per editors/nvi-devel) is different from nvi2, btw?

./danfe


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