iVim

this app is a really good port of Vim to ios, im not a vim pro but most of the keybindings and features i use on Vim are in this app. I also really like the keyboard, makes coding so much faster. something i wish it had was .vimrc functionality, as i tried to make one but it didn't seem to work (idk if i did something wrong), but i guess that would be hard to implement. i also wish that it was easier to access the documents instead of having to click twice (the menu button and show me the documents). however the app is so good that im still gonna give it 5 stars despite these slight shortcomings. It's free, revolutionizes coding and note taking on phone, and i can't believe the app is not more popular.

I’ve been missing my favorite VI text editor, in my retired life, with most time spent on Apple and only a little time on Microsoft devices, but no Unix or Linux platform to play/develop on… I *love* the idea of being able to quickly make changes to text files with my old friend VIM. But I’ll join in with others, in saying there needs to be more adaptation to the iPhone and iPad environment. These days, most often when wanting to edit text, I’d be happy to copy/paste it into this VIM app, but the paste function only works rarely. Command-V *wants* to work, but usually doesn’t, and complains there’s nothing in the + buffer. I also tried the special form of pasting from the buffer named + (using “+p) but that works equally poorly. One would expect Command-V to work after entering Insert mode, like CTRL-V works on Linux in that mode, but that’s a complete bust. When it does work, it’s a seemingly random moment, when I hit Command-V with VIM in command mode and not insert mode. I’d also like to see a better implementation of the :help mode, which it says should accept a space and a keyword, but in fact, the space and the delete keys are not functional there. I’d also love to be able to see what files are available, in my current directory, but I need to switch to the Files app to see that. So… THREE stars for all the features that work, but minus two stars because it’s virtually unusable for me. I also don’t see a way to contact the developer, to provide this same feedback, so here it is in a review instead.

It’s an amazing port of Vim for iOS! There are super cool features being added at a very steady clip! I absolutely love the new font management feature that was just added. Some of the best features are behind a paywall but that’s only fair because it takes a lot of time to program and implement those features because they aren’t in core Vim and are exclusive to this version. I do wish git wasn’t locked though. Just the core functionality of git, similar to how python is available when using this app. It would be nice to be able to hack together a use for it to manage my repos and then the pay version would be the enhanced, easy to use version. I only mention this because unfortunately, for reasons, I can’t buy subscriptions from the App Store. I want to personally thank the developer(s) of this wonderful app! Your hard work is definitely appreciated. Hopefully soon I will be able to support you with a subscription because my thanks do not pay the bills.