> The first version of the classic VI editor with proper UTF-8 support has > completed beta testing and has been released now officially: Vim 6.0.
Just thought I'd point out to Debian users: you need to install one of the "heavy" versions (ie vim-gtk) to get this. "vim" itself doesn't have it compiled in. (Yes, that means you need to install a few GTK/X packages, and it'll blow Vim up about a meg per instance and about three megs SHM as a result, though it'll work fine out of X.) The alternative is compiling it yourself, of course ... not a very good one, though, defeating the convenience of apt. I did point this out to the Debian vim maintainer; he claims he wants the "vim" package to be minimal and suggests the above; I gave a few arguments for it, but havn't received any response yet (it's only been two days.) Not understanding the importance of UTF8 is an easy enough mistake to make, of course, but this inconveniences non-X users a lot. (I also don't know why he did away with vim-tiny, if he wants a minimalist version available--all there is now, effectively, is vim-tiny and vim-huge-and-bloated.) Now if we can just get kernel, screen, ncurses, slang, and readline support, I'd be all set. :) -- Glenn Maynard - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
