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Re: VIM for android?

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In comp.editors, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> This sounds more like it is addressing point 2.  I.e., something to run
> sitting on the phone/tablet itself.  I'm mostly interested in something I
> can run remotely; that is, while ssh'd into the phone/tablet.  I say all
> this because if I am ssh'd in, I am coming from a real computer, with a
> real keyboard, so I wouldn't have to worry about "soft keys" and such
> things.

I misunderstood your ssh to about ssh'ing from the tablet. (I ssh from
Termux and use vim with the Termux softkeys.)

> I'd have to look into installing Termux and get familiar with it in order
> to comment further on this aspect.  But as I said, I'm mostly interested in
> something I can run from an ssh connection.

Seems then this a question for you to figure out yourself. How do you install
software? How do you use that method to install a real version of vim?

Elijah
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sympathizes that busybox vi is very bad

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