On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 02:38:20PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 23.03.2011 10:13, schrieb Alexey Shuvaev: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:39:44AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > >> 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? > >> > > +1 here! > > > > ports/editors/nvi-devel is another starting point here. As far as I > > understand > > it is a further development of nvi which is in base. What I don't like > > about it is a dependency on databases/db3 and changed (worse, in my opinion) > > handling of keystrokes in 'insert' mode. But it is iconv-aware > > implementation > > already. > > nvi-devel is bit-rotten. Most releases date from 2004, and there was a > patchlevel-release in 2007 apparently, since then it's been left to bit rot. > > I'm thinking about just killing databases/db3 and see what happens with > nvi-devel. I tried convincing it to work with db41, and while it > compiles, it somehow abuses Berkeley DB in a way I don't see during > debugging and barfs with "Invalid argument" on a DB->open call on a > recovery file. > > Also, the documentation says it depends on 3.1, but then we've been > using 3.3 for ages, but even the first release of nvi-devel to use > Berkeley DB was released when 4.2 was already out. There seems to be > some code to make it work (which in itself is buggy it uses broken > comparisons for its version checks), but it doesn't work for reasons I > don't see with gdb. Berkeley DB doesn't like the way it's being used > and errors out with EINVAL. However, I don't care enough to build a > debug-enabled version of Berkeley DB to see where abandoned nvi-devel > might abuse bdb. > Yes, nvi-devel is not developed any more, but I was saying that nvi in base is even older than nvi-devel, and it is worth looking at it. At least for the iconv support. As for the BDB, maybe strip it just out, if possible?
> vim works for me, supports Unicode, and for "fewer dependencies", we > have vim-lite. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
