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On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: |
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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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> |=20 |
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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=3Dlinux 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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I don't recall seeing any comment that indicated that the bug report |
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was sent to Gunnar Ritter, only that no one had time to think about it, |
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and that no details could be recalled. |
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fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as vi's - |
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and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about those |
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programs on this list. |
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p.s: the vile ebuild that you mentioned a few weeks ago has an obsolete |
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homepage. It helps to keep in contact with the upstream developers. |
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Thomas E. Dickey |
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http://invisible-island.net |
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ftp://invisible-island.net |
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