damianmcnulty/vimtouch

vimtouch

VimTouch

About

VimTouch is a open source VIM port on Android. It supports full vim syntax and finger touch gestures to help VIM much more usable with touch screens.

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.momodalo.app.vimtouch
• https://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/vimtouch-general

Features

• Touch to move cursor
• Fling to scroll
• Swipe to zoom
• Quick buttons
• Unicode and multi-byte
• Read email attachments
• Single instance to open multiple files in vim windows
• Real VIM runtime
• Customizable VIM runtime (ex: can install syntax, doc, plugins)
• Sliding File chooser
• Backup/Restore your VIM runtime
• Command History GUI by long press quick buttons

Screenshot

Issues

https://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch/issues

Developer

How to compile the source code?

Before starting, you need the following prerequisites:

• Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

• Android NDK: http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html

• Apache ant: http://ant.apache.org/

  (Use sudo apt-get install ant on a proper OS)

• Git: http://git-scm.com/

  (Use sudo apt-get install git-core on a proper OS)

Get the source code:

git clone git://github.com/momodalo/vimtouch.git && cd vimtouch

Now prepare the development environment:

ANDROID_SDK_HOME=~/path/to/android/sdk && ./prepare-clean-checkout.sh

You're ready to compile it!

ant debug

(Note: the build script uses some magic to discover NDK and call ndk-build. Since magic is prone to failures, your build might fail with complaints about Android NDK. If that happens, make sure you export ANDROID_NDK_ROOT environment variable or read the run script to discover what heuristics it uses to deduce your NDK location.)