2016-02-08 21:35 GMT+03:00 Justin Dearing <zippy1981@gmail.com>:
> On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 6:14:49 PM UTC-5, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>> I find it interesting to see
>> this question, just a few days after reading a page laying out the case
>> for NeoVim . . . it
>> gave EBCDIC support as an example of something that no one would ever
>> use Vim for!
>
> Ok that seems weird. Throwing out Netware support is the perfect case for a dying user base not worth the #ifdefs they require. Throwing out a lot of windows support written in the NT 4.0 days, to put back cleaner code that will compile VS 2013 and GCC with less ifdefs. However, mainframes are not dying any time soon, and I'm pretty sure still EBCDIC at the core.
Who and how will test this? I only heard about some [unofficial
mainframe emulator][1], using which will probably have law issues: not
with emulator itself, but with OS and compiler.
Also do you have an access to such mainframe and can you test whether
*Vim* compiles there with EBCDIC macros defined? As I mentioned
earlier last patch for EBCDIC systems is very old and when new
features are added programmers adding them do not think about EBCDIC;
most of them (including me) do not even know what exactly needs to be
taken into account.
I am as well quite sure that those mainframes will not have Neovim
installed simply because policy does not allow installing random
software, especially for a reason that it is slightly better then Vim
(if it is there) or Vi (even though not so slightly here).
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)
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