Re: Vim 6.0 has been released (debian info)

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 07:21:41AM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > > "want" isn't the same as "need"
> >   People want it so that there's a need for it.
> no - you're misusing the word.

I don't think it matters--it's not the issue.  (By that reasoning, you
don't "need" it in xterm, either.)  That said,

>If people need something, they'll sit down and do the work.
>If people want something, they'll sit back and demand that someone else do
>it (as on this mailing list).

There's no issue of "work to be done"; this is (was) a just matter of
showing (to Wichert) that demand exists; the "work" was merely one
autoconf flag.

I think the real problem is the one you had: the common misconception
that UTF-8 is only useful in X.  That's false; as was pointed out, a
very common use of Linux (the most common, I'd argue) is connecting
remotely, and not necessarily via X.  Putty
(http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) has excellent UTF-8
support (and, for my quota of being off-topic, is easily the best Win32
SSH client I've seen.)

By the way, thanks for the fix, Wichert--now I can uninstall GTK and
save a good 15+ megs memory. :)

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Glenn Maynard
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