On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Benjamin Klein <b...@silver-chalice.com> wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > > Couple of questions: Do Android tablets have a file system? [Or is that > > what would be provided by Jeroen's third option, installing a Debian kit?] > > Is iOS still a version of Uniix? > > 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. > > 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. > > If you do decide to go with an Android device, this article could perhaps be > useful: http://gdr.geekhood.net/gdrwpl/vim-android.php.
Eric, you have a lot more flexibility with Android than you do with ipad. My computer runs Linux and my phone runs Android and my nook runs Android. I can do the same things on both the nook and the phone. I have not attempted to run Vim on either. I much rather sit in front of my large wide screen desktop monitor for text editing. -- 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
