On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Zhihao Yuan <lich...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Among *all* the GNU/Linux distributions I used, they include a vim >> compiled in tiny mode (ln -s it to vi), which doubles the size of nvi, >> in their base systems. A vim.tiny contains much more features compared >> with nvi, but it's not compatible with POSIX vi. >> > Let's compare the comparable, I don't really care if PCbsd ship vim as > its default, but FreeBSD as the base is not only aimed at desktop > specifically. So you should take into account that I may want to run > FreeBSD on an adm5120 board with 32MB of RAM, without having a text > editor consuming too much disk-space/ram. > > - Arnaud >
If you really want to use vi in a 32MB mem environment, the ex-vi may make sense. It consumes 1600KB memory while nvi consumes 2000KB. Note that the ee editor uses same amount memory as ex-vi. So basically, if no one disagree that we can drop the infinite undo, multiple buffer, multiple window and some other potential missing features, we can replace the nvi in the base system with ex-vi. -- Zhihao Yuan The best way to predict the future is to invent it. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
