On Dec 31, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Benjamin Klein wrote: > From Wikipedia: “iOS is derived from OS X, with which it shares the Darwin > foundation, and is therefore a Unix operating system.” So to the iOS > question: Yes. And you can get at a lot of the underlying Unix OS if you’re > OK with jailbreaking — but there are plenty of power user types that decide > to not do that, and it probably would require a bit of hacker-type setup to > be able to comfortably use Vim on a jailbroken iPad with files etc. managed > by hand through the filesystem.
I was just curious, Benjamin. Even with *a lot* of hand-holding I wouldn't think of attempting to jailbreak an iPad. > Be warned that I have never used an Android device. :} However from what I > have read it seems that although there is no native Android file browser, > there are multiple choices from third parties for this (the most popular or > well-known seems to be Astro > —https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metago.astro&hl=en). And > there are also nice terminal emulators in Google Play (for Android). So in an > Android tablet it looks like you would have the filesystem issue taken care > of, and it would only remain to be seen if the native vim included in > whatever Android variant you ended up using would be usable enough for the > type of writing that you do. After checking out some of the Android tablets I decided I was willing to put out the extra $100 to $150 and bit the bullet for an iPad. I'll put the issue of running Vim off till I get comfortable with the iPad, especially communicating with my MacBook. At that point I may take a look at the option David Sanson suggested back in September. The main problem there I imagine is not having access to a server. I am not affiliated with an institution or company that would make that available to me. Thanks for your suggestions. Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] "The most important thing is the tee-shirt." Samara Alnafdage -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
