[GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi

[Zhihao Yuan]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

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.

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