nvi: "./en_GB.UTF-8": no such file or directory" error

Jamie Paul Griffin jamie at kode5.net
Wed Jun 13 00:59:00 PDT 2012


On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 09:22:55PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jun 12, 2012, at 07:27, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> 
> > when invoking nvi - which i've set as my default system editor - I get the error written in the subject: header. 
> > 
> > I have looked on the internet and found an old bug : Ticket #25733
> > 
> > As you will see a patch was submitted but it's a really old bug report, I only installed this program recently so i've assumed this would/should have been rectified. 
> 
> Yes it is an old ticket, but as you can see by reading it, it is still open, the maintainer of the port has not commented on it, and no change has been committed to the port in response to it.
> 
> 

so there is no work around then? That is a shame. nvi is so much better than vim, i'll have to build it from source instead and hope it turns out better. Maintainers who submit ports that don't work as they should is annoying. 


	Thanks for your reply Ryan. Jamie


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