OS_QNX

*os_qnx.txt*    For Vim version 6.1.  Last change: 2001 Sep 17


  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|


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}
    bBold style
    aUse antialiasing
    iItalic 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

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.

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