Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-11 Thread Matthieu Herrb
Mackan wrote: Hi list! Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never learned those. I tried to compile latest nano from CVS, which support UTF-8, but with no luck. I get configure errors saying that my curses

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Mackan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available > for OpenBSD? On the occasions where I've needed it, I've used ports/editors/vim as an UTF-8 text entry widget. I suspect it suffers severe shortcomings regarding composing characters in "exoti

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Jason LaRivière
Joachim Schipper wrote: > Of course, Unicode is evil,... > > [1] For ease of understanding for the rest of the world, I use a > venerable Adobe Pagemaker for layout. Erm, wrong on both counts. And for jeebus sake, think of the children next time you boot up pagemaker. Trust me, anyone who takes y

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:27:42 +0200 Mackan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list! > > Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available > for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never > learned those. > > I tried to compile latest nano from CVS, which support UT

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Adam
Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, Unicode is evil, and I for one am pretty happy to limit > myself to straight ASCII for 99% of the text I type No, unicode is not evil. Making ridiculous statements like that is evil. The millions of people who's languages are written in ch

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Mackan
On 10 jul 2006, at 21.54, Will H. Backman wrote: Mackan wrote: I just "upgraded" my server OS from Debian/Linux to OpenBSD. But it seems that in the case of Unicode-aware applications I made a big "downgrade". I really want I simple editor with unicode, for myself and my users. Mackan

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:12:37PM +0200, Mackan wrote: > On 10 jul 2006, at 20.43, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available > >>for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never > >>learned those.

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Will H. Backman
Mackan wrote: On 10 jul 2006, at 20.43, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never learned those. As ubiquitous as vi is on Unix, it seems a shallow r

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Mackan
On 10 jul 2006, at 20.43, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never learned those. As ubiquitous as vi is on Unix, it seems a shallow reason. Really,

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available > for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never > learned those. As ubiquitous as vi is on Unix, it seems a shallow reason. Really, it takes all of 15 minutes to pick up what you need

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Han Boetes
Mackan wrote: > Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available > for OpenBSD? qemacs from cvs works ok. - Full UTF8 support, including bidirectional editing respecting the Unicode bidi algorithm. Arabic and Indic scripts handling (in progress). qe