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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2001 14:56:39 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nvi maintainer?
Message-ID:  <20010708145639.G10713@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:37:45AM -0700
References:  <20010708032002.D97456@bohr.physics.purdue.edu> <20010708093745.DB2303811@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 02:37:45AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Peter Wemm remarked
> 
> I'm beginning to wonder..  The real question is whether it is a faithful
> enough drop-in replacement for nvi.  I'll alias it on some of my machines
> and see if it bites me or not.
> 
> The next thing is that moving a port to the base system usually has a
> pretty chilling effect on the package..  Is that going to OK with regular
> vim users who are used to having a dynamic, regularly updated port?

FWIW, vim on various Linux boxes has puked many times in the past on my
rather basic .exrc (last line edited for readability):
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set wraplen=73
set ai
set ruler
map ^R !}fmt 71

wraplen, as I recall didn't work right, and I think one or two other
parts failed.  I never did figure out how to set the wrap width.  And
don't even get me started on the damn syntax highlighting...  watch the
whole screen change color/darkness as I write a printf() depending on
when the ()'s, ""'s, etc., are open.  *shudder*


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"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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