On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:36:33PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Brian Gupta writes: > > You'd have to verify that .exrc is 100% compatible. I am not sure you would > > go about doing that, other than a man page verification, which might not be > > 100% accurate. (Otherwise I am all for this). > > I'm not sure that it'd have to be 100% compatible, but you would have > to deal with the fact that vi+ex are part of POSIX, and would have to > pass all the tests.
And we have /usr/xpg[46]/bin/vi for that, don't we? Bram apparently got the POSIX tests run on vim a couple of years ago, and it had about a dozen failures, most of them in ex, not vi. (:help posix in vim) > But you're right that it's much safer ground if you avoid the problem > by sticking with 'vim' anyway. (Isn't the reason that it's available > as 'vi' on other platforms really the fact that those platforms don't > have a standards-conforming implementation of 'vi', rather than a need > to assert that vim is the same?) True, but as part of the modernization project/meme, it'd be nice to get the base Solaris tools more usable as well. A different project, perhaps, and one that might choose nvi or elvis or another vi clone to replace Solaris vi, if appropriate (and I've no idea whether they might be). Danek _______________________________________________ tools-discuss mailing list tools-discuss@opensolaris.org
