Extreme breakage on OpenBSD

[japanoise]

Tried to compile emsys on OpenBSD, promptly decided I need to rethink my life

• It struggled with the makefile, I had to link it by hand
• Every warning under the sun came out when it was building
• It immediately crashed (segfault) and scrimbled the terminal when running

I don't really want to dev on my thinkpad (it's a backup computer/distro experimenting machine) so I'll need to get a VM set up.

With any luck, this can lead to emsys eventually ending up in the ports tree.

[japanoise]

An alternative is to just use what I've learned from emsys & other C projects and just create a new C text editor, with a view that it should just work on BSDs as well as it does on GNU. This might be a good idea anyway, since I think using a different (better) data structure other than list-of-lines would be a huge improvement. The use of an arena allocator would also simplify the code: example on github

[nicholascarroll]

I am hoping to find time to spend on Emsys very soon. I was going to try to get visual selection ready to PR. But if there needs to be a foundational change then I can focus on that.

[japanoise]

I am hoping to find time to spend on Emsys very soon. I was going to try to get visual selection ready to PR. But if there needs to be a foundational change then I can focus on that.

Good to see you again :) Would love it if you could look at visual selection. We can always refactor later.

[nicholascarroll]

I like that plan.