OpenVi 7.0.10

Changes since 7.0.9

• Clarify text of some visual mode messages; use the POSIX thousands numeric seperator when displaying certain line and character counts
• Use /var/tmp for the vi.recover directory; on most Linux systems, this persists across reboots and gives a higher chance of recovery than /tmp (which is often a memory-backed filesystem)
• New feature: If ruler is set, print a percentage after position
• New feature: If windowname is set, always show the file name
• New feature: If bserase (abbrev bse) is set, then any newly backspaced characters are immediately erased from the screen
• Handle SIGQUIT like SIGINT, which prevents ^\ from causing ex-mode to abort and drop core; aligns closer to Vim's behavior in ex-mode (that is, uses non-canonical input mode, so ^\ is handled and doesn't cause a stop.) Because ^\ can be used to enter ex-mode (using standard canonical line-based input), if SIGQUIT is not handled it's easy to abort the process by accident by sending more than one ^\ in succession, as can happen on lagged connections
• Fix a long-standing bug where using ^G on an empty file would add an extra random garbage byte to the displayed output
• Reword "Already in the first column" to "Already at the first column" to be consistent with the other movement error messages
• Remove documentation files not explicitly under the 3-clause BSD license
• Update header comments on all modified files
• Reformat ChangeLog to break lines at 76 columns
• Update docs; Markdown-ify LICENSE and rename to LICENSE.md
• Silence some warnings and general style clean-up

OpenVi 7.0.9

Changes since 7.0.8

• Add a missing include to fix compilation on Void Linux with musl libc.
• Update README.md.

OpenVi 7.0.8

Changes since 7.0.7

• Rework README.md file.
• Drop -pipe and -fomit-frame-pointer defaults for wider compatibility.
• Add support for building with musl libc.
• Add support for building on FreeBSD; tested on 13.0-RELEASE-p6/ARM64.
• Add support for building on macOS; tested on 12.1/x86_64 (21C5021h).
• Add support for building on OpenBSD; tested on 7.0-current/ARM64.
• Normalize licensing text, acknowledgements, and copyright statements.
• Normalize macro defines and conditional if/ifdef/ifndef's with cppi.
• Minor code clean-ups.
• Drop memmove wrapper macro (for old systems with bcopy but no memmove).
• Add imctrl and imkey options, inspired by cannactrl and fepkey options in nvi-m17n by itojun.
  • If imctrl option is set, the input method is controlled by using escape sequences compatible with Tera Term and RLogin.
  • The state of the input method in commands specified by the imkey option is saved and restored automatically.
  • This input method is deactivated upon returning to command mode.
  • The implementation was taken from NetBSD-current's contrib/nvi.
• Improve make output and use more logical compilation order.
• Add virecover.8 man page adapted from NetBSD.
• Add a missing break in common/log.c.
• Avoid undefined behavior in *BIT macros; patch from NetBSD; also apply patch from NetBSD for PR bin/52716.
• Update .gitignore and .gitattributes.

OpenVi 7.0.7

Changes since 7.0.6

• Important fix to GNUmakefile for linking with Clang's lld linker.
• Remove installed man pages as part of the uninstall target.
• Workaround to accommodate the case of make clean all -j N where N > 1.
• Clean-up whitespace and line lengths of sources and GNUmakefile.

OpenVi 7.0.6

Changes since 7.0.5

• Important fix for back-end database file locking; also, switch back to using the system libc-provided mkstemp functions for now (to elide some issues that would otherwise occur on networked filesystems.)
• Add proper attribution for The Dragonfly Project (DragonflyBSD) to LICENSE text.
• Correct GNUmakefile non-verbose messages for the install target
• Clean-up excess and trailing whitespace from source files

OpenVi 7.0.5

Changes since 7.0.4

• No verbose build by default; set variables V (or DEBUG) to enable.
• No link-time optimization and link-time garbage collection by default; set variables LTO and/or LGC to enable.
• Don't attempt linking with libjemalloc or libmtmalloc by default.
• Clean-up headers to speed compilation time and decrease binary size.
• Import and adapt OpenBSD Berkeley DB from OpenBSD 7-current libc.
• Remove the unused maintainer-clean target from GNUmakefile.
• Build against the newly bundled OpenBSD Berkeley DB by default; the imperfect Berkeley DB 3/4/5 support will remain available.

OpenVi 7.0.4

Changes since 7.0.3

• New feature! :set visibletab (abbrev vt) which toggles displaying tabs visibly while editing, useful for Makefiles, etc.
• Decrease the width of the line-number column (by one row).
• Increase the length of the divider decoration string (by 2x).
• Improve the GNUmakefile to avoid re-making non-stale targets.
• Portably seed the standard random number generator.

OpenVi 7.0.3

Changes since 7.0.2

• GNUmakefile installation targets now also install documentation (man pages).
• Remove docs/internals/cscope.NOTES and documentation references.
• General GNUmakefile, portability, and code readability improvements.
• Relicense new contributions under the same 3-clause BSD license used by the overall project and update LICENSE file text.
• Remove unused headers and legacy documentation from the source tree.
• Add standalone strip target to GNUmakefile to strip the uninstalled binary.
• Set visible tab character to ~ and expose option in GNUmakefile.
• Installed binaries are now prefixed with o (e.g. ovi) by default.
• Explicitly invoke the POSIX-compliant version of the awk utility.
• Clarify and simplify GNUmakefile and build configuration.
• Update ChangeLog and docs for consistency; fix spelling and other typos.
• Update LICENSE text.

OpenVi 7.0.2

Changes since 7.0.1

• Debugging builds now default to compiling with -Wall -Wextra.
• Only pass -pipe to the compiler for non-debugging builds.
• Update the usage help text for readability.
• Change the DEBUG_VI make flag to simply DEBUG.
• For debugging builds, document the existence of -T (Trace) in the usage text.
• Don't strip the binary by default; add an install-strip target
• Make clean targets more robust; warn if unable to remove bin
• Add standard clean, distclean, realclean, mostlyclean, and maintainer-clean targets to GNUmakefile.
• Increase the default escapetime to 2/10ths of a second.
• Add OpenBSD-compatible mkstemp function allowing for longer filenames.
• Silence some potential warnings with explicit casting.
• Exit with an error when screen is too small for visual mode.
• Apply Debian's patch to fix backwards sentence moving.
• Fix horizontal scroll count; patch from Debian.
• Change a #define to a typedef in regex library.
• Fix some typos and minor errors in the documentation and tutorials.
• Update .gitignore to include patch/diff detritus
• Adjust internal calculations to avoid BDB0511 page sizes must be a power-of-2 warning when using BDB >1.85; BDB 1.85 only cares if page size was even; closes GitHub issue #3.
• Apply .exrc writeability patch from hesso at pool.math.tu-berlin.de.
• If TERM is unset, set to NULL, or otherwise unknown, first attempt to fallback to vt100, then exit with a fatal error if vt100 fails.
• Disallow pattern spaces which would cause intermediate calculations to overflow size_t. (CERT: VU#695940)
• Bump version and use -dev suffix to denote development versions.
• Reformat ChangeLog for consistency
• Make several spelling corrections.
• Update ChangeLog with OpenVi history.
• Convert OpenBSD CVS commit log messages to ChangeLog format.
• Clean-up legacy documentation and adjust formatting.
• Simplify GNUmakefile rules.
• Update LICENSE text and formatting.

OpenVi 7.0.1

Changes since 7.0.0

• Forked from 7.0.0 (OpenBSD 7-current src/usr.bin/vi as of 10/25/2021.)
• Initial release of OpenVi created, supporting glibc-based Linux systems.
• Create GNUmakefile and adapt build system.
• Support building with post-1.8.5 BerkeleyDB using BDB 1.8.5 emulation (at the expense of preservation and recovery functionality.)
• Create initial README.md stub.

See the ChangeLog for earlier history.