On 1/31/07, Richi Plana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To justify this being on the developer list and not the community list I could
> pretend that only developers will want vim on their Neo.
Why would you want vim (or any source editor) running on your Neo? First
of all, the primary interface to the Neo is still its touchscreen.
Keyboards won't be available for a while. Second, it probably won't be
worth it to develop applications on the device itself (if that were even
possible given the memory constraints).
If you need to edit text on the phone, use the existing text editor
which, in all likelihood, will take better advantage of the interface
than vim would. I'm sure you could live without syntax highlighting for
a spell.
For embedded Linux development, it is very handy to have a decent
editor running on the target device. Often there is a need to edit
configuration files etc. This is typically done over ssh/network
connection from your host system -- you don't run VIM on the target
display. Because VIM is so easy to build/install with OE, why not :-)
Cliff
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