[arch-general] New vi/vim/gvim in testing requires intervention

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM, André Ramaciotti
<andre.ramaciotti at gmail.com> wrote:
> At least here, vi can open non-ASCII files, but as I said previously,
> it won't show the lines with non-ASCII characters. The worst thing is
> if you try to save this file, vi will save it only up to the first
> line with a non-ASCII character:
>
> $ cat test.txt
> This line is fine
> mas essa não (but this one isn't)
> neither is this one.
>
> Then open it with vi and try to save it.
>
> $ cat test.txt
> This line is fine
>
> and that's all.
>
> Vi does crash, but only when I type a non-ASCII character.

Might be worth seeing if we can find a patch to fix the crash at least.