Notices

Using GNU emacs for almost everything on my full size computers, the Vim experience on the n900 is a new world to me.

I know I can also run emacs on the n900, but Vim's modal approach simply seems more adequate on a device with a quite limited keyboard.

I have read up on customizations and have also installed the latex-suite, but would like to hear if any of you more experienced Vim users have some n900 specific tips for customization. How do you e.g. deal with the lack of the function keys (F1, F2 etc.) in the latex-suite where they seem to be used quite thoroughly for completions and similar stuff.

Looking forward to getting tips and tricks from experienced Vim users regarding these customization issues.

Best regards

I just use the same config I use on my desktop.

Can look at it here
http://ruskie.codemages.net/cgi-bin/....git;a=summary

And check it out using git here:
http://ruskie.codemages.net/repos/configs/dot-vim.git

Thanks a lot, I will have a look at it tonight:-)

Regarding latex-suite, it will probably pay off to use IMAP quite intensively so that I can create snippets for environments etc.

You wouldn't now how to get <F9> mapped to e.g. "åå" in insert mode, would you? (I tried "imap åå <F9>", but that doesn't work (it just inserts "<F9>" literally).

Could probably set it on the desktop using in insert mode: ctrl+v F9 and then moving that to the n900

I installed vim last night and it works great when I ssh in to the n900.

Today, I tried it on the n900 directly, both in an xterminal and by tapping on its icon on the desktop.

I can start appending text, but the return key inserts an M on the line above, up arrow inserts A on line above, and B, C, D for the other arrow keys.

The key codes sent by the N900 and N810 keyboards don't correspond to the termcap properly when in insert mode. If someone can post a solution, we can include it in the vim package proper (I usually just work around it, I'm afraid to say).

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=411455

Thanks! Want to create a postinst for vim.pkg which'll auto-create a /home/user/.vimrc if not already present? (Or a /usr/share/vim/vimrc which gets globally used?)

Sorry, I have missed this post

Here is the postinst file:

http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s081608/postinst

and basic vimrc:

http://www.student.dtu.dk/~s081608/vimrc

I have added just those basic settings to make vim usable, if you think that we should have some other default settings (intends, autosaving, whatever) I can take care of it.

@Jaffa, can I add this directly to the package somehow?

Thanks, I'll look at merging these into vim.pkg later.

vimrc needs to go in packages/vim.pkg/extras in MUD and then the XML file modified to tell it where to put it.