Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:32:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [GSoC] About the idea: Unicode support in vi Message-ID: <20110323073234.GA17217@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTintkKzW=o%2B7Q53aMSpA1mmqC7aDF1wN8zHY_Wc%2B@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTintkKzW=o%2B7Q53aMSpA1mmqC7aDF1wN8zHY_Wc%2B@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:39:44AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I > used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to > improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different: > I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared (or mbyte-mode tunable, > like tcsh), so that it can deal with more encodings. Can that be a > GSoC project proposal? > I'm only speaking for myself [obviously], but I think this would be an excellent idea. I'm using nvi on my FreeBSD server; works fine. But using it on my Ubuntu desktop dails because the "default vi" is vim. vim and nvi are incompat. Having using vi since the earth was formed, I am waaaay stuck with it. Please do keep me posted if you rxpand nvi. gary kline > -- > Zhihao Yuan > The best way to predict the future is to invent it. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org
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