On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 07:10:12AM -0700, Brian Nitz wrote:
> Would it be possible to get VIM (an improved vi editor) into Opensolaris?  
> VIM has been the default on most linux distributions for quite a long time 
> and it has some  advantages over the vi found by default on Solaris:
> 
> Multiple levels of undo
> Remember and return to current line when entering a file multiple times.
> 
> I'm sure there are others, those are two of my favorites and I have seen this 
> as a complaint when devlopers try to work with Solaris.
>  

While I am a vim user, I want to point out that vim 7 was just released.
Given the number of patches released for previous versions of vim I
expect there to be quite a few for vim 7 and it's many support files.
The support cost to keep vim current in OpenSolaris may be problematic
as a result.

-- 
Will Fiveash
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Austin, TX, USA (TZ=CST6CDT)
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