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A vim port to iOS.
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Open In iVim Action is missing in iOS 14 #172

Closed ahayman closed 3 years ago

ahayman commented 4 years ago

With my normal workflow, I find the file I want to edit in Files, tap on Share, then select "Open in iVim". I found that if I "favorited" the "Open in iVim" action, I could simply tap on the file to open it in iVim. This was very convenient.

That option disappeared when I updated to iOS 14. The only thing I can do is select iVim and "share" the contents, which copies the the text into iVim in a new buffer instead of allowing me to edit the file in place.

I can use :idoc to edit files in place, so at least iVim is still usable. But I much prefered the Open in iVim option. It make switching files a lot easier.

mchalkley commented 4 years ago

I've had the same problem, and it's a real source of frustration. Try this: In the application you're trying to use "Open in..." from, open the Share sheet, then tap-hold on iVim & see if you get multiple options, one of which is "Open in...", and will allow the previous functionality.

It works for me in Notebooks, and I bring that up because I can't take credit for discovering this insanely non-intuitive "improvement" in iOS/iPadOS. Alfons Schmid, the author of Notebooks (notebooksapp.com), figured it out in response to a support request I submitted to him. Notebooks is an awesome Markdown editor, notebook app, & multi-purpose repository.

Hope it works for you as well as it does for me!

Mark

ahayman commented 3 years ago

The recent update (about a week ago) seems to have fixed this problem. Thank you! It really makes my workflow so much easier when I can open a file in the Files app directly in iVim. It’s truly awesome.