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Re:Vim ported to iOS by joshu on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:02PM (#3487325)
It can only edit files in $HOME, it says.
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Re:Vim ported to iOS by 1336 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:51PM (#3488069)
Yeah?

:e /etc/passwd

It's read only, but still, omgwtf.

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Re:Vim ported to iOS by 1336 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:08PM (#3488115)
You can also poke around the file system with a combination of :cd and :Explore

:dir doesn't seem to work.

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Re:Vim ported to iOS by stewbrew on Friday January 20, 2012 @06:51AM (#3489170)
This could be because :dir is not a vim command.
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