Some of us don't like syntax highlighting.
Also another good thing would give us the option not to set numbers. Both should be easy to comment out in vimrc.

the app can not work after update to android 10.

device: huawei p30
android version: 10

I love this app, any advices for me to make it work again?

droidvim does everything as expected except save files. Vim was explicitly about editing files, but the files seem to have disappeared on Android. What is the alternative? Perhaps a "how to" on the front page for people who already use vim might be useful.

The version of android I am using may be the issue but surely, surely, if there is a thing called "Files" on the "desktop" it opens something that is default standard? Droidvim is not going to the same place. Is this a possible fix?

It is possible the android notion of "File" is an appropriation and there is no point thinking of files unless I have "rooted" the system. I only wanted to create a local html page that the browser could find and perhaps that is not possible either. If this is the case, a pointer in a "how to" would be useful.

what about releasing this app on f-droid?
Most vim users are fdroid users on phone.

To reproduce do this:

1. Start the app.
2. Write some text in it.
3. Do a long tap, choose Share, then current buffer in the menu and choose copy in the dialogue.
4. Paste the the text in any other app (Google Keep or Google Docs for example) and you will see that there is a new line after pasted text though it shouldn't be here.

There is the same problem if you copy selected text instead of whole buffer.

App version is 2.2.6+DFM.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/ofrf6d/comment/h4fyrcz

and while you're at it, do it AGPL! 😁
https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/ikjatj/does_licensing_your_product_under_agpl_prevent/

because termux.
https://t.me/offtopictermuxgroup/33877

don't call me crazy!! http://ahoxus.org/~cregox

If I select a file to open in my backup app (Tresorit) and then pick DroidVim, the file data gets to DroidVim but saving it back does not work. This is possible at least in principle since KeePassDroid and QuickEdit can do it.

Try to open some file with the app from a file manageror start the app and push u (undo). You will see a message "push enter or enter a commamd to continue". It annoys.

I'm not sure if this is related to the DroidVim, but I have to ask.
I run it on LineageOS 16 (Android 9) on Galaxy S7 Edge.
I wanted to set the pure black terminal background, but I have noticed that the terminal window background color changes depending on the location of the cursor focus.

Related settings:

• Terminal: screen-256color
• Text color setting: Linux console (I have tried with other choices, the behaviour is same)
• Customized Vim colorscheme

So, this is the screenshot when the cursor is located in one-line textbox (background is true black):

And this is the screenshot when the focus is in the terminal window, in the text (not pure black):

Other that this, I haven't encountered any problems.

Hi,

I could not figure out how to open two files residing in Dropbox at the same time.

:e ?

Regards,

Iuri.

Thanks for the great app, but I often use the Recents screen to switch task, when to Droidvim, I had to use the notification. It's a little inconvenient. So can it be fixed?

When I try to set mapleader, vim tells me E355: unknown option: mapleader. Same happens for maplocalleader.

Is there a reading mode in DroidVim where I can hide my function bar and cursor as well and go complete fullscreen?

Any workarounds?

Phone: Xiaomi MI9
ROM: MIUI 12 (xiaomi.eu 20.8.20)
Rooted, Magisk v24.4, Magisk Manager v7.5.1

My goal is to edit system files with droidvim like wpa_supplicant etc.

I tried these steps from the F.A.Q in :shell but always get the result as in the screenshot.

busybox-setup sysbin
---
busybox-setup sysbin su
---
busybox-setup clean
busybox-setup 

Hi!

In word-based input there is no way to easily "submit" a vim command to VIM.

Example: If users want to switch to insert mode and type "word", they have to type "iword". This breaks recommendation, correction etc. IMHO it would be preferable if there were a way to type "i" "word" instead -- whatever this SUBMIT is.

Regards,
Tom

Hi! Thanks for DroidVim, it's really awesome and I love it! I frequently use it to quickly prototype Vim functions and answer questions on Vi & Vim StackExchange. And with Python + Git support on the premium version I can even get UltiSnips working through vim-plug, yay!

I have one question about the clipboard scripts, such as ATE-mod-clipboard.vim. Where do the scripts come from? Can I find a source repository or vim-scripts page for them? The files I find under $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/ATE-*.vim don't seem to have any comments or headers. I didn't really find any files with such names in this repository and a Google search for the file names or function names didn't help much either...

I find the copy & paste behavior sometimes to be a bit awkward, so I was wondering if I could consider perhaps writing some fixes where possible and potentially contributing those to the upstream that is used to build this app?

Thanks again for building a wonderful product!

Hi!

I disabled "Hide functionbar" in Settings / Function Key. I would expect the small triangle not to show up in the function bar but it still does. It seems, disabling "Hide functionbar" has no effect.

Regards,
Tom

The behavior is the following (I use the character-based direct input)

1. Press Ctrl key on the function bar
2. The caret changes to triangular
3. Press any letter on a soft keyboard (e.g. r to redo)
4. Vim gets the r without Ctrl and replaces the current symbol with the next typed

I can provide any debugging info if you tell how to collect it

Thanks for creating DroidVim. I made a donation and got the extra features.

I have the extra features in one phone (main use phone), but I have another phone (rooted) where I also want the extra features to be enabled. On the 2nd phone it does not allow me to donate again saying that I already own the app ... but there is also no way to download just the extra binaries.

It is a great feature, but: sometimes it is working great;
and sometimes, out of the blue, dropbox refuses to acknowledge that there is file change.

Thus, if one closes droidvim, all changes are lost.

My personal problem is that I use dVim sporadicallly, and many times I resort to it with that "trustworty memory" that "it was working great last time", which, obviously, whenever this bug happens, leads to a big frustration.

¿Anything I may be doing wrong?

¿Any tips on creating some temp file safeguard just in case things go sour?

thanks!

CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd#1441

People,

When I reporting a different issue:

#14

on my old Galaxy Note 1, a problem I DID NOT have was running vim from the Command Line (ie connecting from my Linux box to the phone running sshDroid allowed me to use DV just like I was in an Xterm). After being forced to get a new phone (Pixel 2XL), rooting etc etc and getting things back to where I was before, I now find that running DV from the CL does not work properly . . ie the cursor is at the bottom of the screen instead of the top and all text inserted appears on the bottom line. Quitting out of the file works fine but the program is not usable obviously.

I am missing something again?

Thanks,
Phil.

Hi,

I have a strange issue resulting in the above error every time I write a file.

I have set my HOME to the directory /sdcard/mh. This is where both .vimrc and .viminfo reside.

When I delete the .viminfo file and edit a file a new .viminfo file is created in that directory without error, however whenever I edit a file with an existing .viminfo file the above Error appears - even though it seems to perfectly possible for droidvim to write to this file.

I have played around with various viminfo-settings in the .vimrc file but I cannot get rid of this error - what could be the problem here?

I am using version 1.1.65.

Many thanks!

Hi,

How can I access the 'gpg' program via DroidVim (in a similar way to curl or git)?
I tried installing gpg via Termux (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.termux), however this installation seems to be in a sandbox which DroidVim can't access.

Is there a way I could make 'gpg' available to DroidVim?

People,

I want to so the above but I get errors on editing .vimrc and other files - I presume because of ownership permissions. However chowning and chmoding doesn't work . .

Is there a solution?

Thanks,
Phil.

Hi,

The solarized dark color is not consistent. As soon as I installed DroidVim, I activated the solarized dark colorscheme via the preferences menu, and opened a few files. I saw the beautiful colors as below:

Then, I quit the app via :q and now when I am opening the files I see an uglier version of solarized dark, like:

I want the color combination shown in the first set of pictures but it is visible only during first run, all subsequent runs have the latter color combo.

I have seen this issue occur on Android 4.4 and 6.0

I could not find where I can modify a key in function bar, is it possible to replace a key in function bar?

Hi,
I got a premium (git, curl and busybox) through Google Play.
I test several time but it can only work with this command such like
busybox ls -a
when I used only command without busybox

CANOT LINK EXECUTABLE ''ls": cannot locate symbol "OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms" referenced by"/system/lib64/libselinux.so"...

then I executed "busybox-setup sysbin" this command

the busybox command is worked ,but when I restart the vim get this error

can't open file /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/com.droidvim/cache/tmp/vWHuXd8/0

Hello, I've got a very curious issue. It's probably not a bug in droidvim but I thought you may have seen it before. So if there's any workaround you can suggest I'll be very happy to take it. The issue is that, on my old android device, I cannot access vim help.

Here is the symptom

:he 
E426:tag not found: help.txt@en

This message is returned for any legitimate help topic:

:he vimwiki
E426: tag not found: vimwiki@en

However, the tag files are all good and you can tell when you search for some other topic

:he asdf
E149: Sorry, no help for asdf

I can run helptags fine and it does regenerate. My runtime paths are all good, and I'm happy to provide more info if you have capacity to help. Here's the kicker....

This old phone is running Android OS 4.4.4 and I cannot upgrade it.
I've created a basic emulator running 4.4.4, built and ran droid vim on it, and the help system is fine on the emulator. So I think it might be about my specific phone. It is an old Motorola Droid Mini, which is different from some phones in having no sd card.

Anyhow, thanks for reading, if you have suggestions or things I should try I'm all ears. I just love this app and having a full-functioning vim is a goal. I'm also interested in enhancing it (with dropbear) so I'd be happy to take instructions for trying out things with the build (tho a lot of this android stuff is new to me).

A new file always gets .txt extension. For example you can do these steps:

1. Do a long tap
2. In the menu choose Storage->Storage->Create file
3. Type custom name, for example test.py
4. Type :ls as a command. You'll see that the file name is test.py.txt

Hi!

If users want to switch between character and word-based input, they have to go to settings and find the respective option there. Since the preference for char/word-based input can change quickly (do I want to write text or rather change text), I think it would be preferable to have a button in the function bar that does this.

Regards,
Tom

Hi Dev,

I really like your app. I love Vim so I installed this app on my phone. I am not really habitual of using H,J,K & L keys for controlling the cursor(I know it's quite odd for a daily vim user) so I use the arrow keys on my Laptop with vim. On my phone, in order to do the same, I have to use Hacker's Keyboard. Now when I press arrow keys, they start printing as text like A, B etc even when I am out of Insert Mode (when I press the arrow keys, the app enters insert mode itself which is odd). Please Fix this Issue ASAP!

Thank You!

When I try to use extra package git, I have a problem since last update:

fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/my-repository': error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /data/data/com.droidvim/files/usr/etc/tls/cert.pem CApath: none

I checked the path and this tls directory only contains an openssl.cnf file.
I tried to clean extra packages and install them again.
I also tried the busybox-setup commands I found on Droidvim site. Nothing changed.

Background

Experienced on DroidVim 1.3
Tested with fonts: System font, "Miriam Fixed" and "Elronet Monospace".
Default configuration.
AOSP keyboard with Hebrew layout.

The problem

Characters inserted in hebrew layout show up with the last letter of each word get carried along with a "space" to the beginning of the next word.

Example (in english):

Thi sI sTh eProble m

The last letter is also "carried" when several spaces are appended after a word.

With :set rightleft another symptom show up which involves the last character of a line ends up on the other edge of the screen. Example:

Anothe rSympto                                                                      m
An dAnothe rLin                                                                     e

(of course the text is in hebrew and the direction of the text is RTL)

Hello. I was wondering if you could add your awesome app to fdroid, since that is (usually) the preffered way for installing open source apps on android, not through the proprietary playstore. Unless there is some kind of an issue with the fdroid requierments. But otherwise it will be well appreciated

I am trying to use vim-plug as my plugin manager but I need git installed. A binary of git included in the app would fix the issue. Thats all.

No binary is getting executed . I am getting permission denied for all binaries . The binaries have execution permission (I've tried chmod +x ).

Just noticed you are targeting android 11 (api 30).

Probably you don't know from android 10(or from any app targeting API 29) apps cannot execute native binaries in data directory of that app (/data/data/PACKAGE_NAME/) . Native binaries are only allowed in lib folder(/data/lib/PACKAGE_NAME symlinked to /data/data/PACKAGE_NAME/lib) .

I think thats the reason I'm getting all those permission denied . Can you take a look at when you have time .

This is what I see when I open the app

Device model : Samsung galaxy M20
Android version : Android 10
I belive it's a arm64 device

vnoremap does not work

vnoremap <silent> <space>c "*y

but vmap works fine

vmap <silent> <space>c "*y

Hi I made a donation and just got the premium features.

Git works but all BusyBox commands fail with the same error:

RUNTIME=$APPEXTFILES/runtime             <
 $ export VIM=$APPEXTFILES
 $ ls
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "ls": cannot locate symbol "OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms" referenced by "/system/lib64/libselinux.so"...
Aborted
 $ mkdir x
CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE "mkdir": cannot locate symbol "OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms" referenced by "/system/lib64/libselinux.so"...
Aborted

• {pp}

Assume I'm the so called "power user" or maybe an application developer, and that I want to use vim from adb shell. I sometimes need to change one or two characters in a text file, and I would not want to copy files back and forth between phone and desktop, only because I have no text editor on the phone.

Expected behaviour

I would enter the phone via adb shell and invoke vim from the CLI. Can I do this with droidvim?

Actually, I'm not really thinking of a physical phone: my use case is on a virtual machine. How can I install droidvim in such a phone image?

People,

I just found DroidVim - I'm excited!

Navigation keys are working but I can't jump to tags - I push CTRL first and then "J" but I get the normal cursor movement - what am I missing?

Thanks,
Phil.

env and main purpose:

• as some well known reason in China, I can not use Google Play, so I use VMOS Pro (an Android emulator on Android) to use Google Play to download DroidVim and purchase git

the issue:

PS: any other way to obtain the git ?

To reproduce:

1. launch the app;
2. switch to insert mode with key i, cursor will change it's form from rectangle to line;
3. turn off screen with power button and unlock your phone, cursor's shape changes back to rectangle though the app is still in insert mode.

Replace mode (key R) has the same problem.

Version: 2.2.1+DFM.

As I understand it, android makes files belong to apps, not users. Rather than the user being untrustworthy (as in the early days of unix where a computer was shared between lots of students) the user is trusted and the apps are possibly manevolent. Rather than vim being there to let a trusted user edit any file, Droid Vim has a bunch of files it is allowed to edit. The model is then to "share" those files with other apps. Fine. I have found how to add a button to the "menu extras" tray that will "share" with juiceSSH, but that juiceSSH doesn't do what I want (scp).

However, It seems I can also write bit of shell script that DroidVim can execute? Is there a way to make DroidVim offer my script as a button in the "Menu extra" (sic) tray? It would need a variable to represent the name of the current vim file...

There may be a proper android app for scp but I can't find it and in any case, generic shell scirpt would seem more useful for anyone likely to use vi

Hi!

Could you please add pageup & pagedown to the function bar? This would be great!

Thanks for this very useful port of vim to android.

Regards

Hi,

To what key does DroidVim map to <leader> ?

Regards,

Iuri.

I was using it for a few months great but now after an update on 2018-10-05 on LineageOS-7.1 running on Motorola Droid 4 the DroidVim application always crashes trying to start it.

lineage-14.1-20180810-nightly-maserati-signed.zip
A-GAPPS-2.1-7.x.x-271216.zip
addonsu-14.1-arm-signed.zip

How to troubleshoot it?

In windows where we use:
ggVG"+Y
but in android did not work.

F-droid has a packaging request for this app. Entering the repo is blocked for the reasons summarized in this comment.

1. Could you publish the scripts to rebuild the precompiled binaries (the file list is here)?
2. The 0-byte MODULE_LICENSE_APACHE2 is not sufficient, the complete license text needs to be added.