[BusyBox] vi applet for busybox

David Douthitt ssrat at mailbag.com
Wed Apr 4 19:59:08 UTC 2001


Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> On Wed Apr 04, 2001 at 08:52:23AM -0500, David Douthitt wrote:

> > However, I may stick with e3, which provides for vi, emacs, pico,
> > nedit, and wordstar emulation in less than 20k total.
> 
> Last I tried, e3 only did all that for the x86 asm version.

> But for
> busybox, at least, readable/maintainable wins over small.

You hinted at another good reason for a busybox vi: works in other
environments: Sparc, m68k, PPC.... I'd forgotten about that.  Every
once in a while I think it would be nice to have a Mac/68k LRP
....(sigh).





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