Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 11:39 AM, fREW wrote: Hey all, I just updated to feisty on a samba server machine and a lot of the vim defaults went crazy. For example: Pressing the Up or Down keys in insert mode add new lines with just A or B on them, respectively. That I can live with, but check this

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 11:59 AM, fREW wrote: I figured it out and if anyone else has this problem I am sending out the solution. Basically when I run vi it is running vim.tiny. vim.tiny sources /etc/vim/vimrc.tiny, not /etc/vim/vimrc, also, vim.tiny is pretty crippled, in that it doesn't even

Re: weird defaults in Feisty

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 12:34 PM, David Nečas (Yeti) wrote: This has been hopefully explained already (vi runs a binary that really behaves like vi, whereas vim runs something more featureful -- this common in Linux distros). Anyway, it's a bit strange when a vim user describes vi as `crazy' and

Re: Vim to Vi (Was: weird defaults in Feisty)

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 22, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Tobia wrote: The point is: I don't consider my learning path in any way peculiar, and if Vim had suddenly reverted to Vi while I was in phases 1 to 3, I would have looked at my computer with a blank, baffled expression on my face. Tobia If you find

Re: instructions for compiling VIM 7 on OS X?

2007-02-27 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Feb 27, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Simon McCorkindale wrote: Peter Michaux wrote: On 2/27/07, Peter Michaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found some pre-built binaries for VIM 7 for Mac OS X but nothing for how to build the binary so it lives in /usr/bin/vim. I would like the executible to live

Re: Insert mode navigation with the arrow keys

2007-01-03 Thread Michael Hernandez
* Viktor Kojouharov [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: With the upgrade to vim 7, I am no longer able to navigate in insert mode with the arrow keys. This happens in any terminal. In gvim, they work fine. Instead of moving the cursor, the arrow keys do something like pressing O in normal

Re: vim is too smart for its own good

2006-08-31 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Aug 31, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: Hi, I'd like to use a plain text editor. I don't want any surprises. I don't want it to think it understands language syntax. I don't want it to colorize things. I don't want it to do anything at all for me, unless I explicitly say it is okay for

Re: ESC key is too far away.

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:13 PM, Will Maier wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:03:52PM -0700, Brian Dorsey wrote: On 8/2/06, Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding remote nature of Esc key, I solved it for myself by I using mini-keyboard, 28x10cm. I love it. Everything is nearer on such

Re: Using GUI on Mac OS X

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 25, 2006, at 2:57 AM, Axel Kielhorn wrote: Am 25.05.2006 um 07:04 schrieb Peter Hodge: Hello all, I am trying to compile vim with gui support on Mac OS X 10.2, but it doesn't seem to work. I use ./configure --enable-gui=auto A simple ./configure should work. (It will detect

Re: Shell support in Vim?

2006-05-10 Thread Michael Hernandez
On May 10, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Jerin Joy wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if adding shell support to vim is a feature thats being considered. It would be great to be able to run commands from vim instead of having to shift to terminal to do so. I've seen vim shell but its a separate plugin: