Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Klaus Fabritius 
* Alexander Skwar schrieb:
> Ivan Novick schrieb:
>> Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim??

> No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones.
[...]

In 2002 Caldera opened the original vi from Bill Joy under a BSD-style
license. There is a linux port from Gunnar Ritter at:




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Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Klaus Fabritius 
* Alexander Skwar schrieb:

[traditional vi]
> Beats me why somebody would want to use it, though.

Experimental archaeology, historical reenactment. It's one of the most
successful applications ever. Thirty years after Bill Joy started
coding it, people are typing "$> vi ~/.emacsrc" ;-)

I just installed it and I'm writing this mail with it. Well, feels
like trying to make fire with a flint and fingers which tend to use it 
like a lighter.


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Re: [gentoo-user] openMotif fails.

2006-03-06 Thread Klaus Fabritius 
* Ted Ozolins wrote:

[...]
> !!! ERROR: x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r9 failed.
 
> Anyone else run into this? How do I get around this?


Same here.




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