os_qnx.txt For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2005 Mar 29 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Julian Kinraid QNX qnx 1. General qnx-general 2. Compiling Vim qnx-compiling 3. Terminal support qnx-terminal 4. Photon GUI photon-gui 5. Photon fonts photon-fonts 6. Bugs & things To Do ============================================================================== 1. General qnx-general Vim on QNX behaves much like other unix versions. os_unix.txt 2. Compiling Vim qnx-compiling Vim can be compiled using the standard configure/make approach. If you want to compile for X11, pass the --with-x option to configure. Otherwise, running ./configure without any arguments or passing --enable-gui=photon, will compile vim with the Photon gui support. Run ./configure --help , to find out other features you can enable/disable. 3. Terminal support qnx-terminal Vim has support for the mouse and clipboard in a pterm, if those options are compiled in, which they are normally. The options that affect mouse support are 'mouse' and 'ttymouse'. When using the mouse, only simple left and right mouse clicking/dragging is supported. If you hold down shift, ctrl, or alt while using the mouse, pterm will handle the mouse itself. It will make a selection, separate from what vim's doing. When the mouse is in use, you can press Alt-RightMouse to open the pterm menu. To turn the mouse off in vim, set the mouse option to nothing, set mouse= 4. Photon GUI photon-gui To start the gui for vim, you need to run either gvim or vim -g, otherwise the terminal version will run. For more info - gui-x11-start Supported features: :browse command :browse :confirm command :confirm Cursor blinking 'guicursor' Menus, popup menus and menu priorities :menu popup-menu menu-priority Toolbar gui-toolbar 'toolbar' Font selector (:set guifont=*) photon-fonts Mouse focus 'mousefocus' Mouse hide 'mousehide' Mouse cursor shapes 'mouseshape' Clipboard gui-clipboard Unfinished features: Various international support, such as Farsi & Hebrew support, different encodings, etc. This help file Unsupported features: Find & Replace window :promptfind Tearoff menus Other things which I can't think of so I can't list them 5. Fonts photon-fonts You set fonts in the gui with the guifont option :set guifont=Lucida\ Terminal The font must be a monospace font, and any spaces in the font name must be escaped with a '\'. The default font used is PC Terminal, size 8. Using '*' as the font name will open a standard Photon font selector where you can select a font. Following the name, you can include optional settings to control the size and style of the font, each setting separated by a ':'. Not all fonts support the various styles. The options are, s{size} Set the size of the font to {size} b Bold style a Use antialiasing i Italic style Examples: Set the font to monospace size 10 with antialiasing :set guifont=monospace:s10:a Set the font to Courier size 12, with bold and italics :set guifont=Courier:s12:b:i Select a font with the requester :set guifont=* 6. Bugs & things To Do Known problems: - Vim hangs sometimes when running an external program. Workaround: put this line in your vimrc file: set noguipty Bugs: - Still a slight problem with menu highlighting. - When using phditto/phinows/etc., if you are using a font that doesn't support the bold attribute, when vim attempts to draw bold text it will be all messed up. - The cursor can sometimes be hard to see. - A number of minor problems that can fixed. :) Todo: - Improve multi-language support. - Options for setting the fonts used in the menu and toolbar. - Find & Replace dialog. - The clientserver features. - Maybe tearoff menus. - Replace usage of fork() with spawn() when launching external programs. vim:tw=78:sw=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: