[Toybox] [PATCH] optional fatter cat(1)

[David Seikel]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2015 23:07:55 -0500 Rich Felker <dalias at libc.org> wrote:

> > If vi/uemacs/joe/nano are trivial extensions of the same basic
> > infrastructure (sort of true modulo vi command mode), I have no
> > problem implementing lots of sets of keybindings. But the first
> > target is vi because it's the only one actually in posix.  
> 
> My guess is that this is not so easy, and that attempting to do it
> this way would have a lot of subtle failures that would just annoy
> users. But it might be a lot less annoying than being stuck with
> nothing but vi...

It was actually quite easy once I had done my homework.  I don't see
how it "would have a lot of subtle failures that would just annoy
users."  Though my design wasn't "start with vi and bend it to look
like other editors", it was "research all the targeted editors /
pagers, figure out what's common and what's not, then come up with a
generic infrastructure that can handle them all".

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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