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This document provides information about using Vim with the QNX operating system. It discusses general usage, compiling Vim, terminal support, the Photon graphical user interface, font settings, and known bugs and future improvements. Key points covered include compiling Vim with or without X11 support, mouse and clipboard functionality in the terminal, supported and unsupported Photon GUI features, how to set fonts and font options, and listed bugs and planned additions.

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Os QNX

This document provides information about using Vim with the QNX operating system. It discusses general usage, compiling Vim, terminal support, the Photon graphical user interface, font settings, and known bugs and future improvements. Key points covered include compiling Vim with or without X11 support, mouse and clipboard functionality in the terminal, supported and unsupported Photon GUI features, how to set fonts and font options, and listed bugs and planned additions.

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*os_qnx.txt* For Vim version 8.2.

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:

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