From Newsgroup: comp.editors

On 23/02/2026 13:05, gazelle@shell.xmission.com wrote:

I'm looking for a version of VIM (*) for Android (tablets/phones).

There are actually two threads to this:

1) A text version of it that I can use from a shell prompt. This is my
primary goal. I currently have an sshd running on the tablet and can
get to a shell prompt via ssh, but the only editor available is the
"toybox" version of vi, which basically is so crippled that it doesn't
work at all. I'd like something better.

2) A real GUI version of VIM that runs on the tablet GUI would be nice,
but not nearly as important as the previous point.

(*) Or, actually any reasonably full-featured version of vi.

Note: I searched the web and it turned up something called "DroidVIM",
which is supposed to be available in the Play Store, but I could not find
it (or anything similar) there.

If you have developer mode enabled in Android 16, you can enable a native
terminal app that seems to run in a Debian VM. I've just tried it on my
Pixel 9 Pro - Vim is installed already for me.
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