Zhihao Yuan writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a Computer Science student at Northern Illinois University, and I
> used FreeBSD for a long time. I'm interested in the idea that to
> improve the nvi in the base system. My proposal is slightly different:
> I want to fork nvi and make it iconv-awared (or mbyte-m
Zhihao Yuan writes:
>> Why not just use "traditional vi"?
>>
>> http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ (lives under editors/2bsd-vi)
>
> This one lacks of many feature, compared with nvi.
nvi also lacks some features, e.g. lisp, modelines, sourceany.
ex-vi is more lightweight
# both built with DEBUG
Zhihao Yuan writes:
> 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.
ex-vi memory usage can be reduced a bit, e.g. by ~20% if you drop
-DLISPCOD
Oliver Fromme writes:
[...]
> To be honest, I don't think that loader takes so much time.
> When you set autoboot_delay="-1" and beastie_disable="YES",
> the time spent in loader is negligible. (I'm assuming that
> you also set BOOTWAIT=0 in make.conf, so boot2 doesn't wait
> for a keypress eith
Alexander Best writes:
> On Fri May 27 11, Alexander Best wrote:
>> On Fri May 27 11, Warner Losh wrote:
>> > These look generally good. Just one thing I had a question on:
>> >
>> > #
>> > +# Enable FreeBSD kernel-specific printf format specifiers. Also instruct
>> > gcc to
>> > +# enable so
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