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Vim ported to iOS

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Re: Vim ported to iOS

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Post by flogic »

hack_edu wrote: post #22
tambourine_man wrote: post #20

What's the biggest advantage over SSHing to your server? Is the interface optimized? I mean, you're almost never offline these days, so local storage can't be it, right? I suggest mapping 'jj' to ESC rather than '\'

Latency. And for those who aren't 'almost always online.'

Even if you're online, the connection may have much more latency than you want to deal with. Depending on what you're doing a split second of latency can mean a lot.

Re: Vim ported to iOS

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Post by flogic »

kylebrown wrote: post #31

Yet another emacs/vim article, and I always look for an excuse to get excited but never can. It seems that the speed at which I think/code is much slower than the speed at which I type. So I can't imagine that I would benefit from skills in emacs/vim-fu. Is this preconception valid, or can anyone debunk?

It's not so much about the speed at which you think as about how quickly you can execute the changes once you've thought of them. I find it discouraging to have to fight my editor once I've thought of the change I want to make. Also debugging speed counts too. I find there are a number of "oh I should tweak that changes" which don't really require much thought.

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Post by YooLi »

apetresc wrote: post #29
sc00ter wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they're called "guidelines" for a reason, and nowhere in them is the word "prohibited" used.

Except that in the vast majority of cases, not following them really hurts your chances of getting into the App Store. Try to find a few other apps on the App Store that you can exit from within the app, to get a sense of just how much of a "guideline" this really is.

How many apps need an exit button? Just because you look around the App Store and don't see a bunch of apps with exit buttons doesn't mean it's because they aren't allowed. It never even crossed my mind to put an exit button in my apps because it's not a use case for my apps. I'm sure it's the same with a majority of the other apps.

Re: Vim ported to iOS

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Post by martinemde »

tambourine_man wrote: post #20

What's the biggest advantage over SSHing to your server? Is the interface optimized? I mean, you're almost never offline these days, so local storage can't be it, right? I suggest mapping 'jj' to ESC rather than '\'

Unfortunately, imap jj in the .vimrc doesn't seem to work. :(

Re: Vim ported to iOS

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Post by saurik »

oacgnol wrote: post #7

Awesome news! I was searching on Cydia the other day to see if there was a vim package available... but I'm definitely happy to see this.

FTR, that was one of the first things I ported in 2007: I cannot imagine having a device without a fully working distribution of vim.
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