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terrychou / iVim

A vim port to iOS.

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iOS Shortcuts support #180

Closed 1dancook closed 3 years ago

1dancook commented 3 years ago

I'm unable to pass a file to iVim from iOS shortcuts.

Ideally it would be good to for example:

get a file from iCloud (get file action)
pass the file to iVim (the Open In... action)
edit file in iVim (and :wq)
changes are reflected wherever that file is stored.

This is a great app- thanks for all your work!

1dancook commented 3 years ago

Might be duplicate or related to #172.

More info - If I do the above shortcuts workflow I get a dialog to post text to iVim. But it doesn't work. (The interface itself doesn't work).

But that post text to iVim is not what I'm after- what I'm looking for is a way that we could share a file to iVim and iVim opens it up with the :idoc command.

1dancook commented 3 years ago

I'm sorry. I should have investigated more.

The Shortcut actions of:

get file (I'm using a file from Dropbox)
open in... (and select iVim as the app)

It does open in iVim, but what happens is that iVim creates a new file with the same contents and thus saving any changes is not reflected in the original Dropbox file.

What I expect to happen:

the above type of workflow has the same essential behavior as the :idoc command

terrychou commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this suggestion. I will do some research on this too see whether iVim can provide some useful Shortcuts support.