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Vim is for coding. How does this work out on the iPad? Does one edit remote files locally, and compile/run remotely? (the benefit is the editing feels instant

by 6ren 15y ago

Vim is for coding. How does this work out on the iPad? Does one edit remote files locally, and compile/run remotely? (the benefit is the editing feels instant - no keystroke latency.) Or has Apple let up on the "no coding for you!" iPad/iPhone terms? (I thought they would eventually, once their dev environment is firmly established - and they'll have to, if/when they adopt iOS on their {lap,/desk}tops - but maybe today is not yet that day. iOS devices sell macs as dev machines)

riobard 15y ago
Vim is for coding. How does this work out on the iPad? With a bluetooth keyboard and a charging dock or a stand, iPad is a great platform for Vim coding. Does one edit remote files locally, and compile/run remotely? (the benefit is the editing feels instant - no keystroke latency.) With Dropbox support this would be possible. Or has Apple let up on the "no coding for you!" iPad/iPhone terms? There is no such term. The term used to be that you cannot bundle a compiler with your app, but even that has been lifted recently with Lua interpreter embedded in many games.
- bradhe 15y ago
  > With a bluetooth keyboard and a charging dock or a stand, iPad is a great platform for Vim coding. So, when your iPad is a laptop Vim is great!
  - riobard 15y ago
    My point is that with this and iSSH, iPad + a keyboard could be a serious alternative to a traditional laptop for many types of programming tasks.
    - 6ren 15y ago
      Can even connect to an Amazon instance or similar. There was a submission a while back about someone who did this for a month (IIRC), but the editor was on the remote machine.
    - levesque 15y ago
      Any free alternatives to iSSH? I don't feel like paying 10$ just to try it out.
      - philo23 15y ago
        This isn't free, but it is a bit cheaper in my opinion it's miles better, http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for... If I remember correctly, iSSH hasn't been updated for quite some time now. Though I might be wrong.
        daantje 15y ago
        An upcoming version, that fixes font rendering problems, is mentioned here: http://groups.google.com/group/issh/msg/f16d119aa00d3570 http://groups.google.com/group/issh/msg/f16d119aa00d3570
jedberg 15y ago
> Vim is for coding. Yes, and a lot more. I use Vim for all my text editing. I used vim to write my latest blog post. It would have been (and will be) awesome to do that on my iPad instead.
dhimes 15y ago
This made the rounds somewhere a while back, but I didn't see a link to a discussion on HN when I searched http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...
- 6ren 15y ago
  That's it, thanks. The HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186476 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186476 (submitting it takes you to its previous submission)

by 6ren 15y ago

riobard 15y ago

Vim is for coding. How does this work out on the iPad? With a bluetooth keyboard and a charging dock or a stand, iPad is a great platform for Vim coding. Does one edit remote files locally, and compile/run remotely? (the benefit is the editing feels instant - no keystroke latency.) With Dropbox support this would be possible. Or has Apple let up on the "no coding for you!" iPad/iPhone terms? There is no such term. The term used to be that you cannot bundle a compiler with your app, but even that has been lifted recently with Lua interpreter embedded in many games.

bradhe 15y ago
> With a bluetooth keyboard and a charging dock or a stand, iPad is a great platform for Vim coding. So, when your iPad is a laptop Vim is great!
- riobard 15y ago
  My point is that with this and iSSH, iPad + a keyboard could be a serious alternative to a traditional laptop for many types of programming tasks.
  - 6ren 15y ago
    Can even connect to an Amazon instance or similar. There was a submission a while back about someone who did this for a month (IIRC), but the editor was on the remote machine.
  - levesque 15y ago
    Any free alternatives to iSSH? I don't feel like paying 10$ just to try it out.
    - philo23 15y ago
      This isn't free, but it is a bit cheaper in my opinion it's miles better, http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for-ios/ http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for... If I remember correctly, iSSH hasn't been updated for quite some time now. Though I might be wrong.
      - daantje 15y ago
        An upcoming version, that fixes font rendering problems, is mentioned here: http://groups.google.com/group/issh/msg/f16d119aa00d3570 http://groups.google.com/group/issh/msg/f16d119aa00d3570

jedberg 15y ago

> Vim is for coding. Yes, and a lot more. I use Vim for all my text editing. I used vim to write my latest blog post. It would have been (and will be) awesome to do that on my iPad instead.

dhimes 15y ago

This made the rounds somewhere a while back, but I didn't see a link to a discussion on HN when I searched http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-...

6ren 15y ago
That's it, thanks. The HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186476 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3186476 (submitting it takes you to its previous submission)