On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Rich Felker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 10:21:26PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>> I plan to implement vi over the next year, but it's one of the four
>> realy big commands required by posix (sed, awk, sh, vi) and I've been
>> debugging sed against real-world data for _weeks_ now. (It's easy to
>> knock out a simple 90% implementation. It's really hard to make
>> something do everything right in all the cases people are going to throw
>> at it.)
>
> It would be awesome to have mg too or a similar mg-like emacs clone
> but with working unicode support.

You might look at Albrecht Kliene's e3.  e3 is that Linux rarity -
code written mostly in Assembler.  (There is also a C version for
other systems.)

By default, e3 implements a subset of the WordStar command set, but
can emulate emacs, ne, pico and vi.  It's the same executable -
symlink it under the desired name and it assumes the desired
personality.  Puppy Linux bundled e3 as vi.  See
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?E3

(There is also a Puppy build of "Traditional vi", built from source
released by Caldera, which I prefer under Puppy.  See
http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ for source. It's under a BSD license.)

> Rich
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