Rich, Cmonex,
Thanks so much for the quick response and investigation!
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Rich Hawley - 2007-04-18 1:17 PM
I guess I'm confused NewMixicoKid...what does VIM CE have to offer over all the other hundreds of text editors out there?
ViM is vi improved. Unlike the vast majority of text editors, it is a moded editor. You might be interested to see
this article: "Research Shows: There is A Perfect Editor". It states in part:
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Experienced emacs and vi users, who use their editors to write and edit English text, performed a series of basic editing tasks and wrote a movie or book review. Our findings suggest that moded editing, as exemplified by the vi editor, may be preferable for fixed editing tasks, while modeless editing, as exemplified by the emacs editor, may have some advantages for free composing.
The vi subjects left fewer uncorrected errors in their final files than did the emacs subjects when doing fixed editing tasks from marked up hard copy. The emacs group tended to take longer to complete the editing tasks, but the time differences may have resulted from differences in typing speed.
I like to use vim for editing. It is very powerful for doing tasks without moving your hands from where they are typing on the keyboard. You can switch to the navigation mode with the escape key and jump anywhere or search through the file with a / or a ?. Just imagine an editor that has extremely efficient and comprehensive key mappings; add to that the vim enhancements over vi that allow one to customize those mappings with macros. That's vim.
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I downloaded the celib.dll and the Vim program and put them on my 900C. It ran...kind of. I couldn't get the menu to do anything, but when I went to exit out of the program it asked me if I wanted to save the file and I did. I was able to open that file using the native Wordpad program on the 900C and could see the text that I had written...
Still I'm confused on what VIM CE has to offer over many other editors that seem more powerful and are free as well.
Rich
Thanks for giving things a try. I'm looking forward to installing Cmonex's custom rom when my 900c arrives; and I hope to find some working version of vim to add there someday.