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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:33:04 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey <dickey@×××.com> |
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wrote: |
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| On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen |
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| > <harald@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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| > | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at |
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| > | <http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net>. |
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| > No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future |
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| > with our "lack of termcap" setup, hence why the ebuilds were |
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| > removed. |
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| ncurses provides a termcap interface, so these applications will |
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| continue to work properly. |
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We were getting segfaults with TERM=linux when using the ncurses |
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termcap interface with ex-vi. IIRC, at the time no-one was sufficiently |
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interested to try to track it down properly. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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