On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > The first version of the classic VI editor with proper UTF-8 support has > > completed beta testing and has been released now officially: Vim 6.0. > > Just thought I'd point out to Debian users: you need to install one of > the "heavy" versions (ie vim-gtk) to get this. "vim" itself doesn't > have it compiled in. (Yes, that means you need to install a few GTK/X > packages, and it'll blow Vim up about a meg per instance and about three > megs SHM as a result, though it'll work fine out of X.) The > alternative is compiling it yourself, of course ... not a very good > one, though, defeating the convenience of apt. > > I did point this out to the Debian vim maintainer; he claims he wants the > "vim" package to be minimal and suggests the above; I gave a few arguments > for it, but havn't received any response yet (it's only been two days.)
He did respond (read the bug-tracking item). Since vim + UTF-8 wouldn't be effective in the console, and only with xterm, there's little advantage even to making a new vim-utf8 package. > Not understanding the importance of UTF8 is an easy enough mistake to make, > of course, but this inconveniences non-X users a lot. (I also don't know why he > did away with vim-tiny, if he wants a minimalist version available--all > there is now, effectively, is vim-tiny and vim-huge-and-bloated.) > > Now if we can just get kernel, screen, ncurses, slang, and readline > support, I'd be all set. :) There's enough ncurses support for people to write applications against (but few people willing to spend time on it). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
