>> I am wondering why , even after lengthy discussions, programmer editor >> friendly editors like vim or emacs is not in /usr/bin or /usr/sfw/bin ? >> Is there any plans to make this happen ? >> > > I don't know of any plans to integrate emacs, but vim is currently being > held up for, of all things, export control. <insert standard rant about > lawyers here, at fifty-times normal volume> > > Hmm.. Lot of developers use emacs for their day to day programming tasks and without emacs support built in , we have not provided them with such a basic productivity tool. Still, vim is a good start. > Once that's taken care of, I can ping Brian again to see if he's still > interested in working on that. At that point the actual integration > shouldn't take very long. > If export control is what stopping , can we make an initial attempt to build vim without crypto support. Af course, I don't have all the details. I guess, engineers will need to get creative .. > If anyone has any magic to turn lawyers into reasonable people, please let > me know. > > thanks for responding
- sriram
