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Old 14th October 2018
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Default vi (=nvi from base) prob.: a character declared printable a day keeps the cursor away

Default behaviour, vi testfile:
Code:
RRP: \xc2\xa329.99. You Save: \xc2\xa316.40
So I add the following to ~/.exrc
Code:
set print="¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿ"
Let's try again, vi testfile:
Code:
RRP: £29.99. You Save: £16.40
Now we're talking...

I can also enter German umlaute in vi just by entering the ä-Key on my keyboard, for instance.

But there's a catch! For each character contained in the 'set print' statement (2nd 'Code:' block above) that I type into vi in INSERT mode the cursor moves one space to the right, away from its usual position. After typing sth. like this:
Code:
These are German umlaute:_
I end up with sth. like this:
Code:
These are German umlaute: äöü   _
(The underscore '_' indicates the cursor position after typing 'ä', 'ö', and 'ü' respectively.)


I'm not ruling out any misconfiguration or stupid mistake on my side. So my question to the pros here is, can anything be done about this annoying behaviour?
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vi(1) is not UTF-8 yet. Can you try editors/nvi2 from ports and see if you get the same behavior? That version of nvi is UTF-8.
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You're right! The ports version (btw, it's nvi not nvi2) works as it should.

So I'll file this under 'not-yet-fully-supported behaviour'. Thanks, Ibara!
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You're right! The ports version (btw, it's nvi not nvi2) works as it should.
Well, you can tell I don't use it. Upstream calls itself nvi2; I didn't realize we didn't import it under that name.
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