[GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Pan Tsu <inyaoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I
>> used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to
>> improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different:
>> I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared (or mbyte-mode tunable,
>> like tcsh), so that it can deal with more encodings. Can that be a
>> GSoC project proposal?
>
> Why not just use "traditional vi"?
>
>  http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ (lives under editors/2bsd-vi)
>
>

This one lacks of many feature, compared with nvi. 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.
However, it's source code can be a great reference for a mbyte-capable
nvi.

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Zhihao Yuan
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.