[Toybox] [PATCH] vi: small fixes.

enh enh at google.com
Sat Sep 7 22:05:36 PDT 2019


On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 12:23 PM Jarno Mäkipää <jmakip87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I apologize for potentially being responsible of destroying config
> files on your device :-)

the shell scripts and awk files i was messing with to run the
one-true-awk tests didn't mind :-)

> Happy to hear someone already tried to use it. There will be some
> problems with files that has non UNIX line-endings also tabs will be
> replaced by spaces etc...
> But for task like changing variable or commenting out few lines it
> might come handy when there is nothing else available.

exactly: that was all i needed, and it did that well enough.

> I'm trying to find time and motivation to continue working on this,
> now as the summer has past.
>
> -Jarno
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:20 AM enh via Toybox <toybox at lists.landley.net> wrote:
> >
> > I really needed to be able to edit a file on the device, and this was
> > the nearest thing handy, and it turns out to be more or less usable for
> > basic editing, so...
> >
> > Support cursor keys.
> >
> > Support :q (since there's currently no record of whether the file's
> > modified or not, :q is the same as :q!).
> >
> > Add 'A' to insert at end of line.
> >
> > Add 'n' to find next after '/'.
> >
> > Fix backspace all the way to get out of ex command mode.
> >
> > Fix escape sequences to not hard-code assumptions about the terminal's
> > default background and foreground colors.
> >
> > Fix 'spesial' typo for 'special', and remove explicit array sizes.
> > ---
> >  toys/pending/vi.c | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >  1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)
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