# Vim documentation: os_qnx

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    *os_qnx.txt*    For Vim version 8.1.  Last change: 2005 Mar 29

    		  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

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    1. General						*qnx-general*

    Vim on QNX behaves much like other unix versions. |os_unix.txt|

    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}
        b		Bold style
        a		Use antialiasing
        i		Italic 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

    Known problems:
    	- Vim hangs sometimes when running an external program.  Workaround:
    	  put this line in your |vimrc| file:
    		set noguipty

    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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