1 *os_qnx.txt* For Vim version 7.1. Last change: 2005 Mar 29
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Julian Kinraid
9 1. General |qnx-general|
10 2. Compiling Vim |qnx-compiling|
11 3. Terminal support |qnx-terminal|
12 4. Photon GUI |photon-gui|
13 5. Photon fonts |photon-fonts|
14 6. Bugs & things To Do
16 ==============================================================================
18 1. General *qnx-general*
20 Vim on QNX behaves much like other unix versions. |os_unix.txt|
23 2. Compiling Vim *qnx-compiling*
25 Vim can be compiled using the standard configure/make approach. If you want to
26 compile for X11, pass the --with-x option to configure. Otherwise, running
27 ./configure without any arguments or passing --enable-gui=photon, will compile
28 vim with the Photon gui support. Run ./configure --help , to find out other
29 features you can enable/disable.
32 3. Terminal support *qnx-terminal*
34 Vim has support for the mouse and clipboard in a pterm, if those options
35 are compiled in, which they are normally.
37 The options that affect mouse support are |'mouse'| and |'ttymouse'|. When
38 using the mouse, only simple left and right mouse clicking/dragging is
39 supported. If you hold down shift, ctrl, or alt while using the mouse, pterm
40 will handle the mouse itself. It will make a selection, separate from what
43 When the mouse is in use, you can press Alt-RightMouse to open the pterm menu.
44 To turn the mouse off in vim, set the mouse option to nothing, set mouse=
47 4. Photon GUI *photon-gui*
49 To start the gui for vim, you need to run either gvim or vim -g, otherwise
50 the terminal version will run. For more info - |gui-x11-start|
53 :browse command |:browse|
54 :confirm command |:confirm|
55 Cursor blinking |'guicursor'|
56 Menus, popup menus and menu priorities |:menu|
61 Font selector (:set guifont=*) |photon-fonts|
62 Mouse focus |'mousefocus'|
63 Mouse hide |'mousehide'|
64 Mouse cursor shapes |'mouseshape'|
65 Clipboard |gui-clipboard|
68 Various international support, such as Farsi & Hebrew support,
69 different encodings, etc.
74 Find & Replace window |:promptfind|
77 Other things which I can't think of so I can't list them
80 5. Fonts *photon-fonts*
82 You set fonts in the gui with the guifont option >
83 :set guifont=Lucida\ Terminal
85 The font must be a monospace font, and any spaces in the font name must be
86 escaped with a '\'. The default font used is PC Terminal, size 8. Using
87 '*' as the font name will open a standard Photon font selector where you can
90 Following the name, you can include optional settings to control the size and
91 style of the font, each setting separated by a ':'. Not all fonts support the
95 s{size} Set the size of the font to {size}
102 Set the font to monospace size 10 with antialiasing >
103 :set guifont=monospace:s10:a
105 Set the font to Courier size 12, with bold and italics >
106 :set guifont=Courier:s12:b:i
108 Select a font with the requester >
113 6. Bugs & things To Do
116 - Vim hangs sometimes when running an external program. Workaround:
117 put this line in your |vimrc| file: >
121 - Still a slight problem with menu highlighting.
122 - When using phditto/phinows/etc., if you are using a font that
123 doesn't support the bold attribute, when vim attempts to draw
124 bold text it will be all messed up.
125 - The cursor can sometimes be hard to see.
126 - A number of minor problems that can fixed. :)
129 - Improve multi-language support.
130 - Options for setting the fonts used in the menu and toolbar.
131 - Find & Replace dialog.
132 - The clientserver features.
133 - Maybe tearoff menus.
135 - Replace usage of fork() with spawn() when launching external
138 vim:tw=78:sw=4:ts=8:ts=8:ft=help:norl: