[GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Hi hackers, I'm doing my GSoC project, Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi at https://github.com/lichray/nvi2 . Currently, the editor can support read/display/write multibyte encoding through iconv. Before adding more features like file encoding detection, I want to remove some features in nvi.

Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: Hi hackers, I'm doing my GSoC project, Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi at https://github.com/lichray/nvi2 . Currently, the editor can support read/display/write multibyte encoding through iconv. Before adding more features like

Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Kurt Lidl
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: Second, the perl/tcl interpreter support; you can apply a perl/tcl command to the file whiling you are editing. I beg no one here used this feature before. Bzzt. I've used the perl interpreter before on a project. In that case, we

Fwd: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Both the guy and me failed to reply to the group. Let me forward it. -- Forwarded message -- From: Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 AM Subject: Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi To: Sebastian Chmielewski

Re: Fwd: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Sean M. Collins
On 7/14/11 1:07 PM, Zhihao Yuan wrote: I regards nvi as a trustful editor when you login into other ppl's machines. Yes - this is the exact use case for Vi in my mind. If I needed features I'd install vim. Come to think of it, since there is already a vim-lite and vim port, why not make a

Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Duane H. Hesser
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:22:49 -0500 Zhihao Yuan lich...@gmail.com wrote: Hi hackers, I'm doing my GSoC project, Multibyte Encoding Support in Nvi at https://github.com/lichray/nvi2 . Currently, the editor can support read/display/write multibyte encoding through iconv. Before adding more

Re: Fwd: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi

2011-07-14 Thread Zhihao Yuan
Here is my introspection: Q: Why drop DB3/4? A: Licenses problem. Q: Licenses problem matters? A: It causes we can't accept nvi-1.8x in our base system. Q: Why an editor in the base system? A: Always accessible. Anywhere (SSH), any situation (inc. system crashes). Q: Why not vim-lite/original-vi?