Does this work on plan9?

martanne / vis

A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions

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Does this work on plan9? #962

Closed tucnak closed 1 year ago

tucnak commented 3 years ago

The nine is not POSIX-complaint, afaik. Can I use this as a drop–in for sam, in any reasonable capacity that is?

mcepl commented 1 year ago

See the requirements in README.md. First of them is “In order to build vis you will need a C99 compiler, a POSIX.1-2008 compatible environment as well as: …”.

mcepl commented 1 year ago

Actually, it may be possible somebody tried to port it to plan9 using https://plan9.io/sys/doc/ape.pdf but I have never heard about it. Also, I am not sure whether Lua and LPEG were ported.

mcepl commented 1 year ago

Actually, there is https://github.com/okvik/lu9, build with APE, so perhaps it is not completely silly idea.