2014-12-30 8:18 GMT+08:00 David Seikel <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:10:07 -0500 dmccunney
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Mg is one I haven't heard of.  Got a URL?

Here it is.
http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/

>
>> 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.)
>
> E3 was my inspiration for boxes.  Though I do have a soft spot for
> assembler, I'd prefer using C for this sort of thing.  Or perhaps C +
> Lua, but Rob decided a while ago to not use Lua.
>
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