Thursday, October 30, 2025

Can someone take care of vi(1), please?

To the OpenBSD developers,

Except the last one from Jerry, I've tested and been using the following
diffs for a while. It won't take you long to review them.

These four are from Jerry Fletcher:

vi(1) bug executing buffer with range fixed

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175719332024459&w=2

vi(1) bug autoindent with expandtab

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175797185216022&w=2

vi(1) source file that switches screen bug fixed

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175812008528584&w=2

vi(1) notimeout strange behaviour

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175820932523617&w=2

And this is mine:

Another vi(1) paste improvement

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175645383505284&w=2

I have all these patches on my machine. To make the work even easier
for whoever is willing to review them, you can ask me in private for a
copy (to avoid cut and paste from the web).


By the way. The first from Jerry Fletcher is also pending on nvi2
github:

https://github.com/lichray/nvi2/issues/153

It was me who let Zhihao Yuan (nvi2 maintainer) know about this diff, I
also sent him an adaptation of Jerry's patch. And I have no problem
doing the same with the rest of the patches. It seems that Zhihao
accepts patches only if they have been accepted by big projects,
especially FreeBSD.



--
Walter

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