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