reporting bugs, requesting enhancements

[Jason]

I see that the bug report/enhancement request page links on the jVi home page are busted. Is there any way to do either? I guess it has me wondering whether the project is still more than nominally active. It's the best VIM emulator I've seen in an IDE and I hope it continues.

[Ernie Rael]

I just tried the links and they worked for me. Could you paste the links here, to make sure I'm looking at the correct ones. They point to the sourceforge bug/feature request for the project.

jVi is in maintenance mode. There are no big features planned at this time. There are still bug fixes.

[Jason]

Seems to work OK now, must have been an outage earlier. My mistake for jumping the gun. I just started using jVi early last week and had problems on each occasion that I had tried to go to those pages before.

" jVi is in maintenance mode. There are no big features planned at this time. There are still bug fixes."

Hmm…I observe that there are numerous ways in which jVi does not act like vim, and the jVi home page says, "There is stuff missing, but if what's there doesn't work like vi/vim then its a bug (or a feature)." The program is still very usable, but I'd love to see the missing features added in.

As far as no big features planned, I guess then that the functionality provided for inoremap and such will not be implemented?

Thanks.

[Ernie Rael]

I think that most things that don't match vim are because they are delegated to NetBeans or somehow dependent on the java environment. Otherwise they are bugs (of course that doesn't mean they'll get fixed, but it's good to know what the issues are).

The map command and window splitting were the last big features added and that seemed to complete things pretty well. It covered all the major feature requests. Maybe someday someone will want to provide some patches or I may have time for some programming recreation. This is a good reason to file feature requests.

I'm using a jVi with a few small fixes, so there should be a minor release some time this year.

[Jason]

Thanks for the replies, and for remedying some of my ignorance. I'll play around with both Netbeans and jVi some before saying much more.

I'm pretty excited by the Netbeans/jVi combination. I've been using vim for everything for years, aside from an abortive foray into eclim (abortive because Eclipse occasionally seems to lose its mind and I don't want to deal with that), but I've always wanted the best of both worlds (great editor and IDE).

Thanks again.

[Johnny Baloney]

Re: broken link

The link in question is "Defects and anomalies" -> http://jvi.sourceforge.net/BUGS.html

It opens a page with the following:

An error has been encountered in accessing this page.


1. Server: jvi.sourceforge.net
2. URL path: /BUGS.html
3. Error notes: NONE
4. Error type: 404
5. Request method: GET
6. Request query string: NONE
7. Time: 2013-09-17 08:07:59 UTC (1379405279)

Reporting this problem: The problem you have encountered is with a project web site hosted by SourceForge.net. This issue should be reported to the SourceForge.net-hosted project (not to SourceForge.net).

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[Ernie Rael]

Thanks machinegodzilla, fixed.