Re: editor alternatives?
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 01:44:12PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> I don't have many request. My request is simple: Editors which
> cannot be used should not have the highest priority.
>
> Editors with which we cannot input or display letters are obviously
> useless.
>
> For multibyte-language speakers, 8bit editors are useless, just like
> non-8bit-clean editors are useless for most European people.
This is an excellent point.
However: we are discussing the 'editor' alternative here. The
'editor' alternative is used by certain system commands to invoke a
'sensible' editor for certain system configuration files. (E.g. vipw
uses it to editor passwd, I think).
These configuration files are all 8-bit files; so an 8-bit editor is
what is needed. A 16-bit editor (or UTF) editor might even tempt the
user into putting 16-bit characters into a file where they are
presumably illegal?
Jules
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