VIM.EFI

this repo is a hack to run Vim in a UEFI environment.

building

at the time of writing, you can build VIM.EFI on debian 11 (bullseye).

you will need at least git, make and gcc. TODO: finish documenting what's needed

sudo apt install build-essential nasm mtools gdisk

to build VIM.EFI clone this repo and execute make.

git clone --depth=1 --recursive https://github.com/mischief/efivim
cd efivim
make

running

to run VIM.EFI, copy vim.efi to the ESP and execute it from your UEFI shell.

to try out VIM.EFI in qemu, execute make qemu, and type 'vim' in the UEFI shell prompt.

credits

originally whipped up by ya boy @mischief when he should have been doing real work at his day job

thank you, @brammool for making an exellent text editor, and for helping those poor Ugandan children.

shout out to @mjg59 - stay cool brother.