[jtt]

Originally Posted by rkomar

I had already made my own keyboard layout with more special characters, but I couldn't figure out how to add the Enter key to it. Since you can't use a bluetooth keyboard either, I just gave up on running vi from the device's interface.

Well, that's not going to be a probem here when you can write a new keyboard completely indendent of the libibinkview keyboard - just put enoygh buttons at the bottom of the screen and use the rest of the screen for the editor.

I just succeeded in building vim without ncurses/termcap (just for a VT100) for x86 and the next step is to try to built it for arm. If that works we'll have a full vim for the pocketbook instead of the rather crippled version that comes with the device (that might even be useful for you when you telnet/ssh into the device and need to do some editing). Let's see if that works;-)

The following step then would be to write a VT100 emulator that understands all the escape sequences this vim version knows about with a keyboard that's usable for editing with vi. the icing on the cake would be if one could place the cursor also using taps on the screen;-)

I got WiFi working and used sshd and utelnetd for shell access after that, and never looked back.

I would like to be able to do that but, as I said, I never got WLAN to work on my network - I'm still hoping that the next firmware version will take care of that problem. It probably would speed up development considerably!

But even then I guess being able to edit a few files when one isn't near a "real" computer (like when one is travelling) might still be useful.

If you think the software keyboard sucks on your Touch device, you should see what it's like on the button-only devices like my 902 (three button presses on average per character, and much more for the special ones).

I guess I can feel the pain;-)

Best regards, Jens