Re: Simple editor (ee?)

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I agree.
>
> And ee is a good choice.
>
> While I'd prefer ee key bindings were closer to pico or nano's defaults.
> Some are the same though. I think it would be easy make ee behave like
> pico or nano. (But don't use this as an excuse to hold back from
> importing it.)
>
> What needs to be done to make it work with NetBSD's curses?

        FreeBSD's port of it will build against NetBSD curses, but
        then the 'ESC' menu does not work correctly - it takes an ESC
        as the first key in a multiple escape sequence. ESC '?' will
        correctly show its escape menu.

        Do we have a curses expert in the house who could quickly
        debug the 'waiting on ESC' issue?

        In fact for a test build of FreeBSD's usr.bin/ee the following
        will work (obviously would need to be done differently before
        import).

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.bin/ee/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -r1.24 Makefile
3,4c3,5
< CFLAGS+= -DCAP -DHAS_NCURSES -DHAS_UNISTD -DHAS_STDARG -DHAS_STDLIB \
<     -DHAS_CTYPE -DHAS_SYS_IOCTL -DHAS_SYS_WAIT -DSLCT_HDR
---
> CFLAGS+= -DCAP -DHAS_UNISTD -DHAS_STDARG -DHAS_STDLIB \
>          -DHAS_CTYPE -DHAS_SYS_IOCTL -DHAS_SYS_WAIT -DSLCT_HDR \
>          '-D__FBSDID(x)=' '-Dfixterm()='
9,10c10,11
< DPADD=     ${LIBNCURSES}
< LDADD=     -lncurses
---
> DPADD=  ${LIBCURSES}
> LDADD=  -lcurses

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