Help. 😮 > On May 18, 2019, at 2:17 PM, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Apr 3, 2019, at 4:56 PM, Peter King <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 12:33:15PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: >> >>> I did a bit of poking around on the web about how I might go about this. >>> Still largely foreign territory for me. An initial question was whether >>> my MacBook Air could be the “real computer” that I would log into. I’ve >>> resolved that question. Only one specific question at this point: How do >>> you deal with the absence of an escape key on an iPad in this approach. >>> Confident that there will be other questions, but I’ll wait for them to >>> get clear. Meantime I’ll keep poking around, maybe trying to try some >>> things. >> >> I use an external keyboard which has an Esc key -- a Logitech K810 >> bluetooth keyboard which is very satisfactory for the purpose. That >> plus a stand that will allow me to set the iPad up either vertically >> or horizontally (usually the former but the latter when I need to run >> something side-by-side with vim) works well for me. In essence the >> iPad is being treated as a dumb terminal, so where I run vim I also have >> all my other files and programs available. Of course, I'm old enough to >> have been raised on server/client mainframe computing, so to me this seems >> perfectly natural. > > It’s been a while since I first posted on this thread. In the interval the > only thing I’ve done is some very tentative exploration of moving files > between iVim and Dropbox and folders in the Files app on the iPad. > > Two solutions to using Vim under iOS were recommended in response to my > original post: logging onto a “real computer” with Blink/Mosh/SSH and running > the Vim installation on the remote computer; running Vim directly on an iPad > within the constraints of the iVim app. > > I have no experience related to the first option. I sense the learning curve > would be steep. I take it I could log into the MacBook on which my > configuration of Vim is installed. Could I do that at any distance from the > MacBook, say like 1000 miles? > > Lotsa questions about running Vim on an iPad within the constraints of > iOS/iVim. For starters, just two: Is it possible to create folders in the > iVim sandbox, e.g., in the .vim folder? Where is the .vimrc? > > As I indicated in my initial post, I’ve largely been away from Vim for a few > years. Lotsa things have become Greek to me that once we’re not. Help > Appreciated. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > "(I)t is important that awake people be awake... the darkness around us is > deep." > > - William Stafford
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