*os_qnx.txt* For Vim version 7.3. 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:ts=8:ft=help:norl: