Re: Vim on the iPad

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On 03/08/2013 02:39 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
> On Mar 7, 2013, at 3:39 PM, Jeroen Budts <jeroen@lightyear.be>
> wrote:
>
>> I use Hacker's Keyboard daily on my Nexus 7 btw. Together with
>> VimTouch and my entire Vim config (which I could just copy over
>> to the tablet, no special tricks required, unlike another unnamed
>> tablet device discussed here recently...). VimTouch with the
>> Hacker's Keyboard really is awesome.
>
> Does VimTouch do syncing, e.g., to Dropbox or SugarSync?
VimTouch itself doesn't do any syncing. I do however use the DropSync
app to synchronize my notes to Dropbox. Dropsync can be configured to
watch one or more folder for changes and sync them immediately when a
file is created/updated. It also regularly pulls in new/updated files
from your dropbox. As soon as I hit `:w` in VimTouch my note is
synchronized to my Dropbox.

> When you responded at the beginning of this thread you weren't keen
> on VimTouch.
True, and I must say that I was wrong on this. VimTouch is really
nice. It is the real Vim (= C source code with no modifications at
all) compiled for ARM and wrapped by an Android app to integrate it
into the system. It also comes with the entire Vim runtime. It also
reads .vimrc and .vim from the sdcard (/sdcard, or on Nexus 7:
/storage/emulated/legacy), so you can simply copy your entire Vim
config to there (I use dropsync to automatically pull in my Vim config)

One reason why I wasn't keen on VimTouch when I first started with
Android was because at that time I was using Git to store my notes and
a wrapper script to (1) update my notes, (2) start vim and wait for it
to close (3) push my notes back into the Git repository. This workflow
is not possible with VimTouch (but it is with Terminal IDE and Debian
Kit). Switching to Dropbox for my notes has solved this.

> Surely similar functionality is possible with iOS. Or is it just
> locked down tighter than Androd?
- From what I have read in this discussion it surely seems that iOS is
locked a lot tighter than Android...

Jeroen
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