From: jeff@ucan.foad.org (Jeffrey M. Vinocur)
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Subject: handheld vi
Date: 15 Jul 1998 08:31:17 -0700
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[CC'd to eli as resident vim guru as I haven't seen him in here
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ObHopefullyToBeDone(AndHopefullyDoable)Hack:

I've failed to find a decent text editor for my palm pilot and am
wondering about some sort of vi-type program.  For those not
familar with the palm pilot, it's a handheld electronic organizer
that takes input by stylus-based character recognition instead of
a keyboard. 

Someone has written a fairly decent (albeit limited) C compiler
for it.  So I'm looking for the smallest, most basic version of
vi/vim (the C source code, anyway) that is still reasonably
functional.  I'm up to doing some limited work with it to deal
with the differences resulting from the palm pilot (all the input
routines, for example, would have to be changed), but I'm hoping
to find the basic functionality because I lack both the time and
the ability to program something of that magnitude from scratch.

Any pointers and/or advice?
-- 
Jeff Vinocur  *  jeff@foad.org

Everybody already knows that I *am* a snooty Brit.
    --Alistair J. R. Young, in the Monastery

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From: j@itntl.bhp.com.au (jason)
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Subject: Re: handheld vi
Date: 16 Jul 1998 00:47:39 GMT
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Jeffrey M. Vinocur (jeff@ucan.foad.org) wrote:
: I've failed to find a decent text editor for my palm pilot and am
: wondering about some sort of vi-type program.

Well, I've heard rumours of Linux booting on one of those things (see
poultry), so you've got very little work left to do  :-)

: So I'm looking for the smallest, most basic version of vi/vim

Ha! A "small" version of vim!

Seriously, would vi really be that useable on a Pilot? The editor
becomes so deeply embedded in a touch typist's tactile memory that the
commands begin to feel subconscious; having to write something like
"jf,dB" with a stylus would surely feel awkward.

Sven Guckes' homepage has a reasonable list of vi clones, none of
which seem totally suitable. Perhaps you'd be best grabbing nvi and
stripping it down considerably.

OBtinyhack: Not totally mine, the inspiration was a colleague's suggestion:

	sleep `date '+23 %H-3600*60 %M-60*+p' | dc`	# wait until tomorrow

j

-- 
Jason Tyler		j@itntl.bhp.com.au
***** Normally all file systems are fscked.