[GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lichray at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Pan Tsu <inyaoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Zhihao Yuan <lichray at 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.

 - Arnaud