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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: "T.Dickey" <dickey@×××××.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VI
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:36:58
Message-Id: 20051225143213.K22923@mail.his.com
1 On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen <harald@×××××××.org>
4 > wrote:
5 > | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at
6 > | <http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net>.
7 >
8 > No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future
9 > with our "lack of termcap" setup, hence why the ebuilds were removed.
10
11 ncurses provides a termcap interface, so these applications will continue
12 to work properly.
13
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Re: [gentoo-user] VI Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>