reassign 351695 nvi thanks On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:39:25PM -0500, Jim Hertzler wrote: > Justin, > > I do not know what the standard "vi" is for Debian. > I installed default Debian and then wiped out everything fancy. > The "vi" I was using was "nvi". > nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi > > Vi is the original screen based text editor for Unix systems. It is > considered the standard text editor, and is available on almost all > Unix systems. > > Nvi is intended as a "bug-for-bug compatible" clone of the original BSD > vi editor. As such, it doesn't have a lot of snazzy features as do some > of the other vi clones such as elvis and vim. However, if all you want > is vi, this is the one to get. > > As long as showing special characters does not violate the > "bug-for-bug compatibility"; I would say this is a bug that should be > assigned to "nvi". > > Naturally, it would be nice if bash displayed special characters too. It may, depending on your locale/encoding. I don't know the first thing about such things, though.
> > Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:41:13 -0500 > > To: Jim Hertzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Re: Bug#351695: Simple Bash command gives unexpected error > > message. > > From: Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:39:24PM -0500, Jim Hertzler wrote: > > > Justin, > > > > > > dselect:Update:Select:Install: > > > vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor > > > vim-common - Vi IMproved - Common files > > > exuberent-ct - build tag file indexes of source code definitions > > > vim-doc - Vi IMporved - Documentation files > > > vim-scripts - plugins for vim, adding bells and whistles > > > vim 1 > > > :r 1 =( > > > cp -bvpi?tmp jay_060206m.to > > > ) > > > > > > Answer: vim does NOT hide the difference. > > > "vim" displays character 160 as a blue vertical bar and a space. > > So, what do you want to happen to this bug? Reassign to whatever > > debians standard vim is, and request that it makes it obvious when > > extended characters or whatever are used? > > > > Justin >
