On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:55:12AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:45 AM, Paul Schenkeveld <free...@psconsult.nl> > wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 08:20:07PM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I like the idea of adding Unicode support to nvi but I hate the idea of > > replacing nvi in the base system by something else. I've been there > > before, when administering a heterogenous environment with Unix, BSD and > > Linux systems, being a heavy user of vi, it's frustrating if commands in > > various versions of vi do not behave *exactly* the same, e.g. different > > versions of vi leave the cursor in different places after undo, the > > effect of the repeat command (.) after an undo command, the availability > > or not to do something like /pattern/z. to find and position the found > > text in the middle of the screen so you can immediately see the context. > > > > Administering hundreds of FreeBSD systems at various sites would become > > a nightmare if frequently used utilities in the base system do not > > behave exactly the same between different builds, a true POLA violation > > I think. I truly hope that adding unicode to nvi doesn't change the > > behaviour of nvi, at least not when not using actually Unicode. > > I will improve nvi only, and I won't break the traditional functions. > But your words reminds me that, perhaps the move of cursor is a > problem for a mbytes-enabled vi. We will see.
It especially is if characters are double wide on output, which happens at least with some chinese ones. I really hope you will find a mentor soon enough. -- B.Walter <be...@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm. _______________________________________________ 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"
