Re: Vim "by far the best editor on the iPad"

> On 1 Apr 2019, at 17.57, Peter King <peter.king@utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 11:28:57AM -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
>>
>> Would appreciate hearing about others experiences with Vim on the iPad.
>
> I occasionally use iVim on the iPad itself, which is good implementation of
> vim (though with some limitations as you note) -- but I found that far and
> away to best way to use vim on the iPad is to ssh/mosh in to a Real Computer
> and run it there, as a command-line program. I use Blink as the app on the
> iPad I use to connect;

I remember downloading a Python plugin using a plugin manager under iVim, and putting it into the vimrc. On iOS each app has their own private file system, and for iVim it mostly works the same as on other OSes. I used a setup with Dropbox mounted on a cloud machine, together with the iVim features for opening files from iFiles and the iFiles Dropbox integration. It worked reasonably well for running some reinforcement learning experiments in Python.
I found the biggest problem to be the speed of typing with the onscreen keyboard, which is why predictive input for iVim is on my todo list. Also lack of smooth scrolling by dragging up and down like in most iOS apps, as well as lack of "touchpad" support (where you move the cursor by dragging 2 fingers over the onscreen keyboard).
I also remember briefly trying the Blink/mosh solution, and it had similar usability issues.

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