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Re: [PATCH] replace 0xA0 to whitespace in plain text files (part 2)



Salut, Hubert,

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:23:47 +0200 (CEST), Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> OK, let's import vim.

I thought the idea was to get _rid_ of situations where the editor
shreds files? vim, with its lack of error handling, attracts these
magically. Also, there are licensing issues, and there is a "too much
magic" issue in a majority of its functionality. Additionally, undo and
redo cannot be performed arbitrarily since they have an influence on
the undo/redo stack. Moreover, vims scripts have a number of design
problems which promote arbitrary command execution vulnerabilities.

Summing it up, I would be _very_ unhappy to have such a beast in base,
if we have a basically-working solution (nvi). We should only try to
spot and fix the charset problem.

                                Tonnerre

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