Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use pure terminfo rather than termcap. | p.s: the vile ebuild that you mentioned a few weeks ago has an | obsolete homepage. It helps to keep in contact with the upstream | developers. Yeah, I sent you an email about that, and got a bounce message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mail1.radix.net [207.192.128.31]: 550 5.0.0 Unauthorized Sender Sep 05 9.5 is in the tree and should be correct, anyway. Still looking for someone to maintain it... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: (fwd) Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use pure terminfo rather than termcap. I'm certain we're talking about something different, since neither vim nor screen uses any other interface in that area than termcap. I was just in screen yesterday, and am looking at vim right now, just in case some feature has crept in. If it were in fact using terminfo rather than termcap, it would call one of these functions: int setupterm(char *term, int fildes, int *errret); int setterm(char *term); char *tparm(char *str, ...); int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int)); int tigetflag(char *capname); int tigetnum(char *capname); char *tigetstr(char *capname); All three of those programs use the same interface from ncurses - the termcap one. | p.s: the vile ebuild that you mentioned a few weeks ago has an | obsolete homepage. It helps to keep in contact with the upstream | developers. Yeah, I sent you an email about that, and got a bounce message: odd - I know that radixnet filters spam, but haven't seen any comments about bounces. (otoh, it doesn't seem to work to send email to this list from _that_ host, which again, I've not seen before). his.com seems to work... 9.5 is in the tree and should be correct, anyway. Still looking for someone to maintain it... ok - I see this http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-editors/vile/vile-9.5.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup The --with-ncurses is redundant (and --with-screen=ncurses is not as well supported as the default - I made some fixes after 9.5 for the former, so it should be comparable right now). You might also consider --with-loadable-filters (that makes a smaller executable). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use pure terminfo rather than termcap. I'm certain we're talking about something different, since neither vim nor screen uses any other interface in that area than termcap. I was just in screen yesterday, and am looking at vim right now, just in case some feature has crept in. If it were in fact using terminfo rather than termcap, it would call one of these functions: int setupterm(char *term, int fildes, int *errret); int setterm(char *term); char *tparm(char *str, ...); int tputs(const char *str, int affcnt, int (*putc)(int)); int tigetflag(char *capname); int tigetnum(char *capname); char *tigetstr(char *capname); All three of those programs use the same interface from ncurses - the termcap one. | p.s: the vile ebuild that you mentioned a few weeks ago has an | obsolete homepage. It helps to keep in contact with the upstream | developers. Yeah, I sent you an email about that, and got a bounce message: odd - I know that radixnet filters spam, but haven't seen any comments about bounces. (otoh, it doesn't seem to work to send email to this list from _that_ host, which again, I've not seen before). his.com seems to work... 9.5 is in the tree and should be correct, anyway. Still looking for someone to maintain it... ok - I see this http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-editors/vile/vile-9.5.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup The --with-ncurses is redundant (and --with-screen=ncurses is not as well supported as the default - I made some fixes after 9.5 for the former, so it should be comparable right now). You might also consider --with-loadable-filters (that makes a smaller executable). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use pure terminfo rather than termcap. grumble: his.com has pine, and I _thought_ I'd edited things to send it back to the mailing list thread - I see my reply in the mailing list, which should be enough (fortunately most mailing lists are simpler to communicate with than gentoo). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:02:37 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm certain we're talking about something different, since neither | vim nor screen uses any other interface in that area than termcap. | | I was just in screen yesterday, and am looking at vim right now, just | in case some feature has crept in. If it were in fact using terminfo | rather than termcap, it would call one of these functions: snip | All three of those programs use the same interface from ncurses - the | termcap one. Vim has --with-tlib=. If it's set to ncurses, everything works nicely. If it's set to termcap it ends up mangling the screen. | 9.5 is in the tree and should be correct, anyway. Still looking for | someone to maintain it... | | ok - I see this | | http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/app-editors/vile/vile-9.5.ebuild?rev=1.1view=markup | | The --with-ncurses is redundant (and --with-screen=ncurses is not as | well supported as the default - I made some fixes after 9.5 for the | former, so it should be comparable right now). | | You might also consider --with-loadable-filters (that makes a smaller | executable). Hrm, if I add --with-loadable-filters to the 9.5 ebuilds I get a compile error: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -c -I. -I.. -I../filters -I.. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I./filters -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux/CORE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DVILE_STARTUP_PATH=\/usr/share/vile\ -Wall -rdynamic -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -D__CIARANM_WAS_HERE__ -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe filters.c In file included from ./flt_defs.h:35, from ./filters.h:12, from filters.c:8: ../estruct.h:1971:21: nemode.h: No such file or directory Looks like it's parallel build related. With MAKEOPTS=-j1 it goes away, but with anything higher it fails consistently. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:02:37 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm certain we're talking about something different, since neither | vim nor screen uses any other interface in that area than termcap. | | I was just in screen yesterday, and am looking at vim right now, just | in case some feature has crept in. If it were in fact using terminfo | rather than termcap, it would call one of these functions: snip | All three of those programs use the same interface from ncurses - the | termcap one. Vim has --with-tlib=. If it's set to ncurses, everything works nicely. If it's set to termcap it ends up mangling the screen. The default value is ncurses though, as I read src/configure.in case `uname -s 2/dev/null` in OSF1) tlibs=ncurses curses termlib termcap;; *) tlibs=ncurses termlib termcap curses;; esac And there're two factors to consider: the terminal database, and the library. Either may be a problem. But I don't offhand know of a problem with either that would mangle the screen with GNU termcap. From the termcap interface up, vim would do the same thing anyway since it's a termcap application (uses tgetent, tgoto, etc). term.c is about 5400 lines of code... Note that vim uses tgoto() rather than tparm() - and uses that for updating colors. Not exactly the intended use of that function, but it works. | You might also consider --with-loadable-filters (that makes a smaller | executable). Hrm, if I add --with-loadable-filters to the 9.5 ebuilds I get a compile error: ... Looks like it's parallel build related. With MAKEOPTS=-j1 it goes away, but with anything higher it fails consistently. yes - I haven't done anything regarding parallel build for vile. Only ncurses, iirc. I'll add that to my to-do list. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
* Alexander Skwar schrieb: [traditional vi] Beats me why somebody would want to use it, though. Experimental archaeology, historical reenactment. It's one of the most successful applications ever. Thirty years after Bill Joy started coding it, people are typing $ vi ~/.emacsrc ;-) I just installed it and I'm writing this mail with it. Well, feels like trying to make fire with a flint and fingers which tend to use it like a lighter. -kfk -- UNIX has grown fat. Rob Pike, 1983 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the vim clone, why don't you try on of the others? BTW: How can you *not* like vim? I mean, it's very much compatible to vi, isn't it? emerge -C vim emerge emacs emerge -C emacs emerge ed at least have a unique trollage -- I'll rob that rich person and give it to some poor deserving slob. That will *prove* I'm Robin Hood. -- Daffy Duck, Robin Hood Daffy, [1958, Chuck Jones] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
2005/12/25, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the vim clone, why don't you try on of the others? BTW: How can you *not* like vim? I mean, it's very much compatible to vi, isn't it? emerge -C vim emerge emacsemerge -C emacs emerge ed emerge -C emacs emerge -C ed emerge dosemu ...dosemu edlinOr perhaps that too esoteric. Or is ed a better choice in the circumstances?Regards, Martin S
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future with our lack of termcap setup, hence why the ebuilds were removed. ncurses provides a termcap interface, so these applications will continue to work properly. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:33:04 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | | http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. | | No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future | with our lack of termcap setup, hence why the ebuilds were | removed. | | ncurses provides a termcap interface, so these applications will | continue to work properly. We were getting segfaults with TERM=linux when using the ncurses termcap interface with ex-vi. IIRC, at the time no-one was sufficiently interested to try to track it down properly. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:56:24PM +, Ivan Novick wrote OK. Thanks for all the replies. I will just use vim. Run it as vim -C. From the vim manpage... -C Compatible. Set the 'compatible' option. This will make Vim behave mostly like Vi, even though a .vimrc file exists. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] VI
Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? Thanks, Ivan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Ivan Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? I think that the closest in portage is nvi, which is what the BSD's have by default. -- Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious selection. We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be. Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably. -- Greg Bear -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 11:15 +, Ivan Novick wrote: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? You don't want normal vi, trust me on this. : ) We do have nvi, (elvis, but I'm not sure there) and if you're desperate for the original feeling of loss, the busybox vi implementation. However, the -classic- vi source is a headache and its use of terminfo so horrendous that it causes brain-hemorrhaging if you try to update it. //Spider ex vi maintainer. Now suffering from hemorrhaging brainzombies. -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Of all the editors I have to say Nano is the best. Being a former Windows user : -) Although this is totally off topic, I just had to let you know in case you were wondering. On 12/24/05, George Ellison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? I think that the closest in portage is nvi, which is what the BSD's have by default. -- Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious selection. We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be. Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably. -- Greg Bear -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. Sure there is. http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Ivan Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Klaus Fabritius schrieb: * Alexander Skwar schrieb: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. [...] In 2002 Caldera opened the original vi from Bill Joy under a BSD-style license. There is a linux port from Gunnar Ritter at: Oh, allright, I stand corrected. Beats me why somebody would want to use it, though. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the vim clone, why don't you try on of the others? BTW: How can you *not* like vim? I mean, it's very much compatible to vi, isn't it? emerge -C vim emerge emacs -- I'll rob that rich person and give it to some poor deserving slob. That will *prove* I'm Robin Hood. -- Daffy Duck, Robin Hood Daffy, [1958, Chuck Jones] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future with our lack of termcap setup, hence why the ebuilds were removed. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 12:34 -0500, George Ellison wrote: emerge -C vim emerge emacs Troll -- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
OK. Thanks for all the replies. I will just use vim. Cheers, Ivan Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future with our lack of termcap setup, hence why the ebuilds were removed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 12:34 -0500, George Ellison wrote: emerge -C vim emerge emacs Troll Chill out. I'm just being facetious. -- FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #21 A: Dr. Livingston I. Presume. Q: What's Dr. Presume's full name? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
George Ellison schrieb: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the vim clone, why don't you try on of the others? BTW: How can you *not* like vim? I mean, it's very much compatible to vi, isn't it? emerge -C vim emerge emacs Uhm - emacs is more compatible to vi than vim? I don't think so. -- Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
051224 Ivan Novick wrote: Thanks for all the replies. I will just use vim. You can set Vim up to act as if it were Vi : look at its dox. As everyone else has responded too, I don't understand why you want to, but Linux esp Gentoo are basically about user choice (smile). If you want a really simple editor, I recommend 'app-editors/e3'. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:10:03 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You can set Vim up to act as if it were Vi : look at its dox. Bad idea. You lose multiple undo levels and the ability to edit more than two files at once... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, kashani wrote: IIRC it used to be in portage as of around of a year ago. You might be able to track down an ebuild of it in the old ebuilds. I'd have been able to tell you for sure but I wiped it off my last machine last month when I enforced the vim with color syntax standardization. Once you get used to syntax highlighting you can never go back. Plus there is nothing like half your named.conf shifting to red to let you know you typo'ed a } somewhere. kashani If you don't pleased with the built-in colour-schemes (such as me), just copy a colorscheme to $VIMRUNTIME/colour (IIRC) and edit it. HTH. Cheers, Tamas Sarga Srga Tams -- Make the world confused!Zavard ssze a vilgot! Smile on monday morning!Mosolyogj htf reggel! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 14:59 -0500, kashani wrote: Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like there is no gentoo-dev-sources moved to gentoo-sources, but vi is also missing! Is this compleet gone? or also moved, can someone point me in the good direction. I love the good old vi IIRC it used to be in portage as of around of a year ago. You might be able to track down an ebuild of it in the old ebuilds. I'd have been able to tell you for sure but I wiped it off my last machine last month when I enforced the vim with color syntax standardization. Once you get used to syntax highlighting you can never go back. Plus there is nothing like half your named.conf shifting to red to let you know you typo'ed a } somewhere. well, its sorta orphaned due to being a pain to maintain ( terminfo /curses dependencies) there are still ebuilds, you can look in the viewcvs to recover the old ones I believe. I added it mostly out of nostalgia back when Gentoo was young, since then it became more of a burden to maintain, so it dropped out of the tree. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:06:20 -0400 Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 01:16:38PM +0200, Spider wrote: | well, its sorta orphaned due to being a pain to maintain | ( terminfo /curses dependencies) there are still ebuilds, you can | look in the viewcvs to recover the old ones I believe. | | all versions of vi rely on terminfo/termcap or curses. | | Perhaps you meant to say something different. What he meant was that traditional ex/vi is broken when built against ncurses rather than termcap, and that we're trying to remove termcap from the tree on the grounds that it's h0rked. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpLwCxxAr4XE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: What he meant was that traditional ex/vi is broken when built against ncurses rather than termcap, and that we're trying to remove termcap from the tree on the grounds that it's h0rked. traditional ex/vi sounds like Ritter's version. It seems to work (and I haven't noticed anyone reporting a bug relating it and ncurses). Perhaps you would like to make a bug report. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net pgpQgwRzicNAv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage
VIM is still there. Could you use that? On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 19:34 +0200, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like there is no gentoo-dev-sources moved to gentoo-sources, but vi is also missing! Is this compleet gone? or also moved, can someone point me in the good direction. I love the good old vi TIA Patrick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage
Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Hi, I'm using a script for months now to install my gentoo servers, now after my last sync i have seen that there are some changes in the portage like there is no gentoo-dev-sources moved to gentoo-sources, but vi is also missing! Is this compleet gone? or also moved, can someone point me in the good direction. I love the good old vi IIRC it used to be in portage as of around of a year ago. You might be able to track down an ebuild of it in the old ebuilds. I'd have been able to tell you for sure but I wiped it off my last machine last month when I enforced the vim with color syntax standardization. Once you get used to syntax highlighting you can never go back. Plus there is nothing like half your named.conf shifting to red to let you know you typo'ed a } somewhere. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
