ADVANTECH Vim Cellular Routers Router App User Guide

: June 15, 2024
: Advantech

Table of Contents

Vim Cellular Routers Router App
Changelog
Description of the module
Installation
How to use
ssh username@router_address
Password:
uim
uim
Related Documents
References
Read User Manual Online (PDF format)
Download This Manual (PDF format)

Vim Manual

Vim Cellular Routers Router App

Advantech Czech s.r.o., Sokolska 71, 562 04 Usti nad Orlici, Czech Republic
Document No. APP-0107-EN, revision from 1st November, 2023.

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Used symbols

| Danger| Information regarding user safety or potential damage to the router.
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| Attention| Problems that can arise in specific situations.
| Information| Useful tips or information of special interest.
| Example| Example of function, command or script.

Changelog

1.1Vim Changelog
v8.1.1 (2019-07-17)

First release.

Description of the module

Router app is not contained in the standard router firmware. Uploading of this router app is described in the Configuration manual (see Chapter Related Documents).
Vim is a text editor that is upwards compatible to Vi. It can be used to edit all kinds of plain text. It is especially useful for editing programs. Router App Vim adds a way, how to use Vim editor in router command line, when connected to router via ssh or putty.

Installation

Like every other Router App, the Vim is installed in Router Apps section in the router configuration page.
Once the installation of the module is complete, the module is listed among other installed module, but the module itself does not have any GUI, it only adds the possibility to use vim via command line when connected to router.

ADVANTECH Vim Cellular Routers Router App - Figure 1

How to use

4.1Command line
Firstly, you have to connect to your router. When using ssh, it should look like this

ssh username@router_address

Password:

and the you just run vim

uim

and Vim text editor is ready

ADVANTECH Vim Cellular Routers Router App - Figure 2

4.2 GUI
There is a way, how to use Vim in the GUI of your router and thats with use of the router app Web Terminal. Once its installed, just open the router app and you will see a command line here

ADVANTECH Vim Cellular Routers Router App - Figure 3

and just like in the Command line section above, just type

uim

and here you go. Vim in your browser.

ADVANTECH Vim Cellular Routers Router App - Figure 4

[1] Vim Manual Pages: https://linuxcommand.org/1c3_man_pages/vim1.htm1
You can obtain product-related documents on Engineering Portal at icr.advantech.cz address.
To get your router’s Quick Start Guide, User Manual, Configuration Manual, or Firmware go to the Router Models page, find the required model, and switch to the Manuals or Firmware tab, respectively.
The Router Apps installation packages and manuals are available on the Router Apps page.
For the Development Documents, go to the Dev Zone page.