Russ Sharek

In my faffing about with text editors, I ran into something kind of funny:

So, there's not a straightforward way to install vi (not vim) on termux. There is, however, a copy of ed in the base install.

And so I started poking at it. Amusingly, it turns out to be a surprisingly decent editor for the constraint that is grumpily poking at a piece of glass with my thumbs.

I'm sure @ed1conf will be delighted.

#vi #nvi #ed #plaintext

Apr 4 at 11:37pmWeb
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@RussSharek as long as you can avoid autocomplete attempting to mess with the commands you type (eased by using a "hacker keyboard" input), it's a remarkably powerful editor given the limited interface.
Show threadRuss Sharek4d ago

@ed1conf

By default, termux seems to disable all the "helpful" bits of the mobile keyslab experience.