Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello,
The editor "elvis" is a vi clone that has almost (see below) all
features that one would nowadays demand of a vi-like editor. It is
also significantly "lighter" than the popular "vim" editor.
-rwxr-xr-x root root 451796 2006-10-11 08:13 /usr/bin/elvis
-rwxr-xr-x root root 990256 2007-01-31 23:54 /usr/bin/vim.tiny
-rwxr-xr-x root root 1383816 2007-01-31 23:55 /usr/bin/vim.basic
Note that elvis has syntax highlighting and other features which have
been left out of vim.tiny in order to make the latter "lighter" so
this "measurement" does not present all of elvis' advantages over
vim.
However:
* the editor has been abandoned upstream since about March 2004.
* the package currently has only an incomplete implementation
of support for multi-byte characters; (see #392727).
* supporting UTF-8 is a good release goal for lenny. If I am not
able to solve #392727 I will consider asking for the removal of
"elvis" from lenny.
Hence, this request for help from anyone who has converted a text
manipulation programme (editor!) from pre-UTF-8 single-byte systems to
wide characters.
Regards,
Kapil.
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