From owner-mint@fishpool.com Fri Mar 7 09:45:12 2003 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:41:31 +0100 (CET) From: Standa Opichal X-X-Sender: stop@mail.idoox.com To: aranym-user@nightmare.sh.cvut.cz cc: mint@fishpool.com Subject: Re: [MiNT] missing vi (was: Re: EasyMiNT for ARAnyM) In-Reply-To: <20030307083301.00000ca7.m.kehr@ndh.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: opichals@seznam.cz Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: Hi! On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, M.A. Kehr wrote: > > was 'vi' that was supposed to be installed on every Unix like > > environment by default. > > Same as in my `child` years.:) But I had much trouble with vi before I > could use it, because itīs not so easy to use, when you only know > editors with a GUI. EasyMiNT does not behave as a unix-like environment? IIRC yes! and so I would suggest to have elvis in there. > > If you care about the size then some very stripped version should be > > made. We can maybe compile vim or KGMD based vi into an rpm > > package.... > > Petr wants to port elvis, which is smaller than vi and I think this > would be a good compromise. hmm... I've played with several vi clones yesterday with the minimal setup (mintlib does not compile with -Os gcc optimalizations unfortunately here - internal compiler error). Here are the executable sizes: virus: 203kB - very minimal one source file vi clone (I would not bet on this one) elvis: 403kB - elvis 2.1_4 version (no problem /I hope/ to create RPM) vim: 460kB I would vote to create a minimal vim-minimal.rpm from the same sources and include this into EasyMiNT as the size difference is not that high. best regards STan