Salve Richi! On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Richi Plana wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 08:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Speaking of vim, will vim (or another derivitive of vi) be among the > > included > > applications, or shall I try cross-compiling it right now? (I can't live > > w/out > > vim). > > > > 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. This isn't true. Battery powerd USB hubs and USB Keyboards are on the market and costs togehter less then 20Euro. And most text edior have a uniq way how they behave - so having several ediors for the users to choose that on that they used to - it will be a good solution for everybody - no need to start an editor flamewar :)) And I'm realy happy about the desin without a keyboard but a great touchscreen of the Neo. Short text input / modification with the touchscreen, writing more text = using an external normal keyboard, IMHO the perfect solution for a mobil computer. I, myself like to use vim, I use vim to write my emails - mutt is calling vim and so I would like when vi (with busybox) or vim is on the neo. Touchscreen is a point to think about that a virtual keyboard could be optimized for different editors.. e.g. is ESC often used, working with vim.. :) BTW vim is also usable with the textbrowser elinks - when editing text boxes... So I see demand and use for vim with OpenMoko. Greetings, rob _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
