[GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> Hi hackers,
> 
> I'm doing my GSoC project, "Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi" at
> https://github.com/lichray/nvi2 . Currently, the editor can support
> read/display/write multibyte encoding through iconv. Before adding
> more features like file encoding detection, I want to remove some
> features in nvi.
> 
> First, gtags mode. This feature was imported by
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/global-commit/2005-01/msg00002.html
> . There's no gtags in our base system, and I can't find it in ports.
> This feature is useless (nvi-1.8x does not have it) and unexpected in
> the code (GTAGS macro everywhere). In a word, I want to remove it.
> 
> Second, the perl/tcl interpreter support; you can apply a perl/tcl
> command to the file whiling you are editing. I beg no one here used
> this feature before. If the logic is simple, you can use subst; if
> it's not, you'd better write a script and run perl/tcl outside. I
> regard it as feature creep, and I don't like it.
> 
> Any comments?

what you suggest makes perfect sense.

I'd also like to commend the attitude: not just say that you don't
like something, but also do proper investigation and give sensible
motivations for your likes or dislikes. Bravo.

cheers
luigi

> -- 
> Zhihao Yuan, nickname lichray
> The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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