> Hmm. Well. UTF-8 has appeal. I'm just worried that changing it
> will be just as shocky to people as changing the original vi to nvi
> was (many years ago).
Other than split screens, what's the feature difference?
My assumption, based on nothing concrete, is that people who use v
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:09:00 -0800 (PST)
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Hmm. Well. UTF-8 has appeal. I'm just worried that changing it
It may seem strange but not doing UTF-8 is actually a handy feature
of nvi when checking things like RSS feeds with iffy UTF-8 encoding, vim
will show me
2009/12/14 Steve O'Hara-Smith
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:48:43 +0100
> Michael Neumann wrote:
>
> > 2009/12/14 Steve Shorter
> >
> > > The above link says "multiple screens" are a fancy feature and
> > > not supported. Having a vi that can do split screen is essential
> AFAIC.
> > >
> >
Hmm. Well. UTF-8 has appeal. I'm just worried that changing it
will be just as shocky to people as changing the original vi to nvi
was (many years ago).
-Matt
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:48:43 +0100
Michael Neumann wrote:
> 2009/12/14 Steve Shorter
>
> > The above link says "multiple screens" are a fancy feature and
> > not supported. Having a vi that can do split screen is essential AFAIC.
> >
>
> But our vi can't do ":sp" or am I missing somet
2009/12/14 Steve Shorter
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:58:45PM +0300, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> > I think we can safely replace nvi with traditional vi [1].
> > vi supports UTF-8 and then we could use UTF-8 locale
> > systemwide. nvi is old and unmaintained, b
Unless there's a pressing reason to switch back to the
original vi I think we should keep what we have.
-Matt
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 05:58:45PM +0300, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> I think we can safely replace nvi with traditional vi [1].
> vi supports UTF-8 and then we could use UTF-8 locale
> systemwide. nvi is old and unmaintained, but supports
> more configuration options, while vi is
I think we can safely replace nvi with traditional vi [1].
vi supports UTF-8 and then we could use UTF-8 locale
systemwide. nvi is old and unmaintained, but supports
more configuration options, while vi is much simpler.
Anyway, if you want a really powerful text editor it
would be vim or
