Psion 5 VIM Editor

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Information

I am currently in the process of doing a port of VIM 5.5 to the Psion 5.

The main source of information about VIM is http://www.vim.org/ .

The port is being done with minimal changes to the VIM sources. It uses the CURSES library for the terminfo support and terminal emulation.

The source changes to the generic VIM source are available on the download area.

Status

I have successfully compiled the VIM sources files and produced an EXE. This EXE successfully runs under both the Psion 5 emulator and on the Psion 5 itself. The editor executes both EX (':') commands and goes into insert mode. However there are many things which yet need work ....

It currently doesn't appear on the Extras bar
Unable to change font size.
No screen attributes like bold, underline, etc.

As this is an EXE and not an APP the port will not use any of the normal EPOC32 menus or dialogs. This would require considerably more change to the sources .... maybe this could happen sometime in the future!

Availability

An early beta version of VIM 5.5 is available from the download area.

Known Problems

The following are a list of problems in the current version which have been reported by users:

Entering 'Q' in visual mode, makes VIM go into command, display the ':' prompt and then locks up.
The command :set nocompatible redraws the screen incorrectly when counts are used

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the name of the initialization file

The command :version displays, amongst the information, the location of the initialisation file which is:

$VIM\_vimrc
$VIM\_exrc

The variable $VIM is set to the directory which contains the VIM application (typically c:\system\apps\vim )