Re: Fun with nvi

Hm, do we disable building the base with ICONV support in -HEAD?

I'd like to trim it out so I can slim down embedded builds.

Thanks!




-adrian



On 10 August 2013 10:33, Peter Wemm <peter_at_wemm.org> wrote:

> I've been tinkering with the nvi refresh from the GSoC in 2011, aka nvi2.
>
> https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/zy/1
> https://github.com/lichray/nvi2
>
> The goal was to update the multibyte handling in nvi-1.79 (the one we
> have in our tree) in such a way we could import it.
>
> Anyway.. an early WIP:   http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/nvi2.tgz
>
> peter_at_overcee[ 9:37AM]~/head/contrib/nvi/catalog-1643> echo $LANG
> en_US.UTF-8
> peter_at_overcee[ 9:38AM]~/head/contrib/nvi/catalog-1644> vi -c 'set
> fileencoding=GB2312' zh_CN.GB2312.base
>
> .. leads to fun things like:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/nvi2-transcoding.png
> that's editing the file in GB2312 format, but converting to utf-8 on
> the fly for my terminal.
>
> This is with the WITH_ICONV=yes in make.conf.  nvi2 will build without
> it but obviously won't be able to work with non-default encoding
> methods.
>
> In straight up UTF-8 mode:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/nvi2-utf8-4.png
>
> How to use the tarball..
> 1) rm -rf contrib/nvi usr.bin/vi
> 2) extract tarball into src tree
> 3) patch -p0 < nvi.diff  (this adds a built-tool to world)
>
> Note that I haven't actually done a buildworld yet. I've just been
> building it directly from src/usr.bin/vi with
> make obj && make depend && make all && make install
> .. to save time.
>
> But you'll need to have WITH_ICONV=yes in make.conf to do the fancy
> stuff.  Note that the ports tree is a long way from being
> WITH_ICONV=yes safe, so don't do this on an important machine.  An
> example of the tweaks to make ports happier:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/iconv.diff - that's not complete.
> Most of the ports tree was updated to use Mk/Uses/iconv.mk but there's
> still some oddballs scattered around in weird places.
>
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter_at_wemm.org; peter_at_FreeBSD.org; peter_at_yahoo-inc.com;
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