On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > Second, the perl/tcl interpreter support; you can apply a perl/tcl > command to the file whiling you are editing. I beg no one here used > this feature before.
Bzzt. I've used the perl interpreter before on a project. In that case, we were using vi as an editor for some very large text fields that were handled via perl to retrieve/store them into a database, done through a DBI proxy daemon. We could do multiple edits this way, without having to capture the field to a scratch file, invoke vi on it, again and again. One persistant vi... At the time, the speed mattered. > If the logic is simple, you can use subst; if > it's not, you'd better write a script and run perl/tcl outside. I > regard it as feature creep, and I don't like it. > > Any comments? I don't really care that the perl/tcl integration stays or goes, but it's certainly not "never been used". -Kurt _______________________________________________ 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"
