cvs commit: src/release/scripts print-cdrom-packages.sh

[David O'Brien]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:59:00AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> "Brian F. Feldman" writes:
> > Andreas Klemm <andreas at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > BTW, robert, if you already think of terms to "waste" time
> > > for loadable editor modules ... the only thing I'm really
> > > missing in standard vi is an extended command line with
> > > - history function
> > > - save history and
> > > - editable like everything other compiled and linked with readline lib.
...
> > I don't think it would be exactly the most trivial thing to give nvi 
> > vi-command-history, but it's certainly worth doing.  It doesn't use 
...
> (x)vile already has functionality to edit thiings like search patterns
> and file names (using the arrow keys to move around). It also keeps
> track of quite a few of the last search patterns and allows scrolling
> through them using the arrow keys.

Vim has all this, that's how it got as big as it is -- people make lists
like the above and the Vim author responds.  So if we're going to import
[x]vile, we should import Vim instead as its got a larger FreeBSD
userbase.

That said, I don't see us importing any 'vi' clones, so why is another
editor to import being suggested?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)