How to trigger a screen update from RealWaitForChar
Hi all, I'm working with a Vim that has been hacked so that you can get callbacks when data appears on a socket. Basically, our callback system works in pretty much the same way as the code in FEAT_SNIFF. We add the filedescriptors that we are interested in to the select/poll code in os_unix, if there is data pending on a socket then we callback a registered function, which should clear the data from the socket. In my particular case, the callback calls into Lisp code in our embedded Lisp interpreter, which writes data to buffers using ml_replace and ml_append. Q1) Is using ml_append from (effectively) within RealWaitForChar a bad thing? At the moment it appears to work properly. At the moment, after the callback has run we call screen_update(NOT_VALID). However, from what I can see, calling screen_update may (does?) re-call RealWaitForChar, which can retrigger the callback, etc. Q2) Is this nesting of RealWaitForChar a bad thing? (I thing it may be) Q3) What is the correct way/place to trigger screen_update(NOT_VALID)? How should I trigger it from within RealWaitForChar? One other point to consider, although we may do callbacks, RealWaitForChar may not have keyboard input - what should RealWaitForChar return in this case? If the list would like to see this code, I can post a patch, or you can use Darcs to get a Vim+Callbacks+ECL from http://theclapp.org/repos/vim70+async+ecl/. Q4) Would this callback mechanism be more generally useful for other scripting engines? Cheers Brad
Re: Fastest way to append line or char to a buffer
On 16/08/06, Brad Beveridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 16/08/06, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brad -
As a side note, if I wanted to get really fast char append, how does
this method sound:
1) In a structure (not sure if a mem_line or bufT struct), have three
new entries
uint current_line_num;
uchar *current_line_buffer;
uint current_line_alloced;
2) current_line_buffer points to the string data for the current line,
it starts off at a sane size (say 80, or screen_width), and doubles in
alloced size when it is too full.
3) ml_append_char (or whatever I call it), will check the target line
number against current_line_number, if the match then
- append the char, possibly reallocing the current_line_buffer if we
have run out of space
ELSE, the edit line number and our cached line don't match
- trim the size of the current_line_buffer to match the STRLEN of the line
- alloc a new oversized line buffer and copy the new edit line into it
- append the char as above
Vim caches the last changed line, you could do something with that.
Start looking at ml_flush_line(), you can find the rest from there.
Would this kind of optimisation be more widely useful?
Perhaps. Changing the same line several times is not unusual. It
mostly depends on how much code would need to be changed compared to
how much we would gain.
- Bram
Thanks for the tips, I'll test all this out and see what I can come up
with. I also accidentally posted just to Bram, so I've included the
list in this reply.
Thanks
Brad
I ended up writing a string append function, that has sped up my
output code by a couple of orders of magnitude :) Here it is, does it
look sane?
Cheers
Brad
/*
* Append string to line lnum, with buffering, in current buffer.
*
* Always makes a copy of the incoming string
*
* Check: The caller of this function should probably also call
* changed_lines(), unless update_screen(NOT_VALID) is used.
*
* return FAIL for failure, OK otherwise
*/
int
ml_append_string(lnum, string, slen)
linenr_Tlnum;
char_u *string;
int slen;
{
int append_len = 0;
int line_len = 0;
if (slen == -1)
append_len = STRLEN(string);
else
append_len = slen;
if (string == NULL) /* just checking... */
return FAIL;
if (lnum == 0)
ml_append (lnum, string, slen, 0);
/* When starting up, we might still need to create the memfile */
if (curbuf-b_ml.ml_mfp == NULL open_buffer(FALSE, NULL) == FAIL)
return FAIL;
#ifdef FEAT_NETBEANS_INTG
/*
#error I am 99% sure this is broken
if (usingNetbeans)
{
netbeans_removed(curbuf, lnum, 0, (long)STRLEN(ml_get(lnum)));
netbeans_inserted(curbuf, lnum, 0, string, (int)STRLEN(string));
}
*/
#endif
if (curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_lnum != lnum) /* other line buffered */
{
ml_flush_line(curbuf); /* flush it, this frees
ml_line_ptr */
/* Take a pointer to the existing line, will get re-alloced right
* away below because it is not big enough */
curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr = vim_strsave(ml_get(lnum));
curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_len = STRLEN(curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr);
curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_lnum = lnum;
}
/* By here,
* curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr - is filled with the correct existing line
* curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_len - is the alloced size of the line
*/
line_len = STRLEN(curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr);
if (curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_len line_len + append_len + 1)
{
int new_len = (curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_len + line_len + 1) * 2;
char_u *new_line;
if (new_len 80) new_len = 80;
new_line = vim_strnsave(curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr, new_len);
vim_free(curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr);
curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr = new_line;
curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_len = new_len;
}
/* by here:
* ml_line_ptr is allocated to fit the current line + the append
* ml_line_len is the total alloced size of the line
*/
STRCPY (curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr[line_len], string); /* Append
our string */
curbuf-b_ml.ml_line_ptr[line_len + append_len] = NUL; /* End the line */
curbuf-b_ml.ml_flags = (curbuf-b_ml.ml_flags | ML_LINE_DIRTY) ~ML_EMPTY;
return OK;
}
Re: How to trigger a screen update from RealWaitForChar
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:35:09PM -0700, Brad Beveridge wrote: Hi all, I'm working with a Vim that has been hacked so that you can get callbacks when data appears on a socket. Basically, our callback system works in pretty much the same way as the code in FEAT_SNIFF. We add the filedescriptors that we are interested in to the select/poll code in os_unix, if there is data pending on a socket then we callback a registered function, which should clear the data from the socket. In my particular case, the callback calls into Lisp code in our embedded Lisp interpreter, which writes data to buffers using ml_replace and ml_append. [snip] Q4) Would this callback mechanism be more generally useful for other scripting engines? Hi Brad, I'm not sure about other scripting engines -- But I can certainly think of one very good use: Poling for email :). If you add /var/spool/mail/uname to the select'ed file descriptors, then it would be nice to have a little message line pop up saying You have new mail. I know this can be done using biff / xbiff / kbiff, etc. But I much prefer a vimbiff :-). GI -- When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
Netrw and cindent
I think I've uncovered an odd bug involving Netrw and the cindent local buffer option for Java files, where cindent is unset under certain conditions. To track down the bug I removed all my Java file type plugins and created a new Java file type plugin called java.vim which contains only the following: if exists(b:did_java_vim) finish endif let b:did_java_vim = 1 setlocal cindent There are two scenarios that can reproduce the bug: Scenario #1 --- 1. Start vim in a dir with Foo.java 2. :E and select Foo.java 3. :setl cindent is set. 4. :E and select Foo.java again. 5. :setl and cindent is not set. Scenario #2 --- 1. Start vim in a dir with Foo.java and Bar.java 2. :E and select Foo.java 3. :setl cindent is set. 4. :E and select Bar.java 5. :setl cindent is set. 6. :2b to return to Foo.java 7. :setl and cindent is not set. It seems the the bug involves Netrw, I can't reproduce it when I open files with :e. Quite a puzzler. Can anyone else reproduce this one? Thanks in advance, -Mark
Re: Netrw and cindent
Mark S. Williams wrote: I think I've uncovered an odd bug involving Netrw and the cindent local buffer option for Java files, where cindent is unset under certain conditions. To track down the bug I removed all my Java file type plugins and created a new Java file type plugin called java.vim which contains only the following: if exists(b:did_java_vim) finish endif let b:did_java_vim = 1 setlocal cindent There are two scenarios that can reproduce the bug: Scenario #1 --- 1. Start vim in a dir with Foo.java 2. :E and select Foo.java 3. :setl cindent is set. 4. :E and select Foo.java again. 5. :setl and cindent is not set. Scenario #2 --- 1. Start vim in a dir with Foo.java and Bar.java 2. :E and select Foo.java 3. :setl cindent is set. 4. :E and select Bar.java 5. :setl cindent is set. 6. :2b to return to Foo.java 7. :setl and cindent is not set. It seems the the bug involves Netrw, I can't reproduce it when I open files with :e. Quite a puzzler. Can anyone else reproduce this one? Thanks in advance, -Mark To check which script last set the option, use :verbose setl cindent? (without quotes, but with the question mark). If it does mention netrw, check near the top of the netrw script which version of netrw you're running. You may be able to obtain a newer version from vim-online or from Dr. Chip's site. Best regards, Tony.
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
On 8/18/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc Hi I got this in my .vimrc: function! ReadSkeleton() if exists (g:Skeleton_path) let skeleton_path = g:Skeleton_path else let skeleton_path = getcwd() endif let filenameList = split (glob ( skeleton_path . /*.*) , \n) let filenameList = insert (filenameList, Select skeleton to load) let choiceList = copy (filenameList) let choiceList = map (choiceList, 'index(filenameList,v:val) .. . v:val') let choiceList[0] = Select skeleton to load let listLen = len(choiceList) let choiceList = add (choiceList, listLen . . Browse for some other folder (gui ONLY)) let choice = inputlist(choiceList) echo choice let skeletonName = if choice == listLen Do the browse thingie if possible if has(browse) let skeletonName = browse(0,Select session to restore,skeleton_path,) echo skeletonName endif elseif choice 0 Load the file let skeletonName = filenameList[choice] echo setting skeletonName to . skeletonName endif if skeletonName != execute 0read . skeletonName endif endfunction nmap F4 :call ReadSkeleton()cr let Skeleton_path = /home/mroets/.vim/skeletons I put all the skeletons for programs (perl, c , php etc), each in their own file in a directory, and set Skeleton_path to this directory in my .vimrc. Now I press F4 and choose which skeleton I want for my new file. HTH Marius
an indentation question
i use vim on both linux and windows. but i found their indentation behavior a little differently. say i was coding a c program on the below line void foo_fun( int p1 then i press return on linux, the cursor come to a pleasant position, that became, void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); but when i was on windows and do the same thing, it became void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); and i dont like that. i compared .vimrc files on linux and windows, but got nothing. so i am wandering whether someone here got know a setting which helps. thanks. -- then sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current.
Re: an indentation question
steven woody wrote: i use vim on both linux and windows. but i found their indentation behavior a little differently. say i was coding a c program on the below line void foo_fun( int p1 then i press return on linux, the cursor come to a pleasant position, that became, void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); but when i was on windows and do the same thing, it became void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); and i dont like that. i compared .vimrc files on linux and windows, but got nothing. so i am wandering whether someone here got know a setting which helps. thanks. there are some options which might be relevant, like 'cindent' and 'indentexpr'. You might also want to check :filetype (without arguments) to see if filetype-related indentation is or isn't on on both sides. Best regards, Tony.
set listchars=tab:-,trail:-,eol:$
So basically I have the following in my .vimrc set listchars=tab:-,trail:-,eol:$ But it's slightly intrusive in the colour it is at the moment (dark blue), and I was wondering if there was any easy way to set it to something less overt, for example dark grey (I use a dark background). Thanks! Adam -- Adam Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: set listchars=tab:-,trail:-,eol:$
Adam Gray wrote: So basically I have the following in my .vimrc set listchars=tab:-,trail:-,eol:$ But it's slightly intrusive in the colour it is at the moment (dark blue), and I was wondering if there was any easy way to set it to something less overt, for example dark grey (I use a dark background). Thanks! Adam :hi NonText ctermfg=darkgrey guifg=darkgrey :hi clear SpecialKey :hi link SpecialKey NonText You may place them in your vimrc, or (maybe better) in a newly-created colourscheme: start with whatever colourscheme you're already using, copy it under a different name (but keeping the .vim extension) to ~/vimfiles/colors (on Windows) or to ~/.vim/colors (on Unix), then add the above lines. If you aren't using any colorscheme yet, you can use the folowing as a source of inspiration, change it to your heart's delight (and see :help :colorscheme about how to invoke it): - 8 - ~/.vim/colors/almost-default.vim Vim color file Maintainer: Tony Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last Change: 2006 Aug 16 ÷÷ This is almost the default color scheme. It doesn't define the Normal highlighting, it uses whatever the colors used to be. Only the few highlight groups named below are defined; the rest (most of them) are left at their compiled-in default settings. Set 'background' back to the default. The value can't always be estimated and is then guessed. hi clear Normal set bg Remove all existing highlighting and set the defaults. hi clear Load the syntax highlighting defaults, if it's enabled. if exists(syntax_on) syntax reset endif Set our own highlighting settings hi Errorguibg=red guifg=black hi clear ErrorMsg hi link ErrorMsg Error hi CursorLine guibg=#F4F4F4 hi clear CursorColumn hi link CursorColumn CursorLine hi clear helpBar hi link helpBarhelpHyperTextJump hi clear helpStar hi link helpStar helpHyperTextEntry hi StatusLine gui=NONE,bold guibg=red guifg=white hi StatusLineNC gui=reverse,bold hi TabLine gui=NONEguibg=#DD guifg=black hi TabLineFill gui=NONEguibg=#AA guifg=red hi User1ctermfg=magenta guibg=white guifg=magenta hi User2ctermfg=darkmagenta guibg=#DD guifg=magenta remember the current colorscheme name let colors_name = almost-default vim: sw=2 - 8 - Best regards, Tony.
Search all text files in a directory for text
Hi, I have a lot of source code distributed over a directory hierarchy structure. I always need to find class declarations, instances where variables are set etc. Usually I just go to command line and run something like find . -name *.vr -print | xargs grep 'class foo' Isn't there an easier way to do this in vim? I can't use cscope since the source is not in C. Jerin -- http://jerinj.blogspot.com/ --
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
On 8/18/06, Jerin Joy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a lot of source code distributed over a directory hierarchy structure. I always need to find class declarations, instances where variables are set etc. Usually I just go to command line and run something like find . -name *.vr -print | xargs grep 'class foo' Isn't there an easier way to do this in vim? I can't use cscope since the source is not in C. Jerin -- http://jerinj.blogspot.com/ -- Exuberant ctags supports 33 languages. Maybe yours is one of them: http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ Marius
Problem or bug?
Hi! I ran across a problem today where I could not enter 2 characters in a row into a KSH script I was editing. You could enter the first one, then the screen would flash and repaint itself, then you could type any other character except a . I had to enter a space than the 2nd , then delete the space. Is this a base VIM bug or a problem with the KSH syntax stuff? Anybody else seen anything like this? This is the 7.0 release on Windows XP. Thanks in advance for the help! Dave Venus
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
Jerin Joy wrote: Hi, I have a lot of source code distributed over a directory hierarchy structure. I always need to find class declarations, instances where variables are set etc. Usually I just go to command line and run something like find . -name *.vr -print | xargs grep 'class foo' Isn't there an easier way to do this in vim? I can't use cscope since the source is not in C. Jerin :vimgrep /\class\_s\+foo\/ *.vr which applies to Vim 7 only; in earlier versions of Vim you can use external grep though. The pattern between slashes is a Vim regular expression; I have arbitrarily put in \ (start of word), \ (end of word) and \_s\+ (one or more spaces, tabs and/or line breaks). The results of vimgrep (or grep) end up in a quickfix error list and can be viewed using :cfirst, :cnext, :cprev, :clast, etc. See :help quickfix.txt and in particular :help :vimgrep :help :grep :help :cnext etc. Best regards, Tony.
Re: windows unicode (iso10646-1) font for vim
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, (BST) Georg Dahn apparently wrote: I personally need Latin only and use Consolas: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3displaylang=en which (IMHO) is a great font. This package is only intended for licensed users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I'm not sure what that means here ... (intended for vs. licensed to?) If you don't own VS2005...you can't use the font. Robert
tabedit readonly
Hi, How do I open a new file in a new tab, but in the read only mode. :tabedit -R file_name Does not seem to work. Thanks Shankar
Re: Problem or bug?
David Venus wrote: Hi! I ran across a problem today where I could not enter 2 characters in a row into a KSH script I was editing. You could enter the first one, then the screen would flash and repaint itself, then you could type any other character except a . I had to enter a space than the 2nd , then delete the space. Is this a base VIM bug or a problem with the KSH syntax stuff? Anybody else seen anything like this? This is the 7.0 release on Windows XP. Thanks in advance for the help! Dave Venus You might have a mapping or abbreviation :verbose map! gt :verbose iabbr gt or a message could have been displayed too fast for you to notice :messages Best regards, Tony.
Re: tabedit readonly
Hi, SHANKAR R-R66203 wrote: How do I open a new file in a new tab, but in the read only mode. :tabedit -R file_name Does not seem to work. :tab sview file_name Regards, Jürgen -- Jürgen Krämer Softwareentwicklung HABEL GmbH Co. KGmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hinteres Öschle 2 Tel: +49 / 74 61 / 93 53 - 15 78604 Rietheim-WeilheimFax: +49 / 74 61 / 93 53 - 99
Re: tabedit readonly
SHANKAR R-R66203 wrote: Hi, How do I open a new file in a new tab, but in the read only mode. :tabedit -R file_name Does not seem to work. Thanks Shankar :tab sview foobar.txt see :help :tab :help :sview Best regards, Tony.
Re: windows unicode (iso10646-1) font for vim
Georg Dahn wrote: I am not sure, if they have CJK included yet, but http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page is a set of Unicode fonts which are being worked at intensely. --- A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I already mentioned, on Windows I use Courier_New for Russian and Arabic, and MingLiU for Chinese. For Latin-only editing sessions I use Lucida_Console. I personally need Latin only and use Consolas: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3displaylang=en which (IMHO) is a great font. Best wishes, Georg They could have done better. The symbol should have been centerlined so that = looked better. It is a clear font though. Robert
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
Jerin Joy wrote: Hi, I'll try the ctags. Both vera and verilog are supported. I'm running vim 6.4 so no vimgrep. Can't change it since I work on a remote login. thanks, Jerin You can still invoke grep from Vim 6.4 (since you have an external grep program installed): see :help :grep. Tags may be faster if you use them repeatedly in the same directories, but you have to generate the tags file first using Exuberant ctags or similar. Best regards, Tony. On 8/18/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerin Joy wrote: Hi, I have a lot of source code distributed over a directory hierarchy structure. I always need to find class declarations, instances where variables are set etc. Usually I just go to command line and run something like find . -name *.vr -print | xargs grep 'class foo' Isn't there an easier way to do this in vim? I can't use cscope since the source is not in C. Jerin :vimgrep /\class\_s\+foo\/ *.vr which applies to Vim 7 only; in earlier versions of Vim you can use external grep though. The pattern between slashes is a Vim regular expression; I have arbitrarily put in \ (start of word), \ (end of word) and \_s\+ (one or more spaces, tabs and/or line breaks). The results of vimgrep (or grep) end up in a quickfix error list and can be viewed using :cfirst, :cnext, :cprev, :clast, etc. See :help quickfix.txt and in particular :help :vimgrep :help :grep :help :cnext etc. Best regards, Tony.
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:44:26AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc One way to do this is the ClassHeader() function (and associated map/autocommand) in my file of example vim functions, foo.vim : http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=72 This one is pretty old: I wrote it before there were such things as buffer-local mappings and ftplugins. HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: an indentation question
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:36:32AM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: steven woody wrote: i use vim on both linux and windows. but i found their indentation behavior a little differently. say i was coding a c program on the below line void foo_fun( int p1 then i press return on linux, the cursor come to a pleasant position, that became, void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); but when i was on windows and do the same thing, it became void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); and i dont like that. i compared .vimrc files on linux and windows, but got nothing. so i am wandering whether someone here got know a setting which helps. thanks. there are some options which might be relevant, like 'cindent' and 'indentexpr'. You might also want to check :filetype (without arguments) to see if filetype-related indentation is or isn't on on both sides. Best regards, Tony. Also check the output of :version If one system has version 6.x of vim and the other has 7.0, that could explain a lot of differences. You will also see (after the feature list) the location of the system vimrc file, if any. You should compare those (if they exist) as well as your personal vimrc files on the two systems. HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: an indentation question
steven woody wrote: On 8/18/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steven woody wrote: i use vim on both linux and windows. but i found their indentation behavior a little differently. say i was coding a c program on the below line void foo_fun( int p1 then i press return on linux, the cursor come to a pleasant position, that became, void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); but when i was on windows and do the same thing, it became void foo_fun( int p1 , int p2 ); and i dont like that. i compared .vimrc files on linux and windows, but got nothing. so i am wandering whether someone here got know a setting which helps. thanks. there are some options which might be relevant, like 'cindent' and 'indentexpr'. You might also want to check :filetype (without arguments) to see if filetype-related indentation is or isn't on on both sides. yes, filetype command returns different results, in linux it is filetype detection: ON plugin:ON indent: ON but in windows, it is filetype detection: ON plugin:OFF indent: OFF how to fix that? Best regards, Tony. :filetype plugin indent on or :runtime vimrc_example.vim (the latter includes the former). If you invoke the vimrc_example, place that near the top of your vimrc, before everything except (if present) setting the :language. see :help :filetype. Best regards, Tony. P.S. I'm no Vim official, just a user like you. Next time, please use reply to all rather than reply to sender so the list gets it and, if e.g. I've gone to bed, someone else can reply.
Re: tabedit readonly
SHANKAR R-R66203 wrote:
How do I open a new file in a new tab, but in the read only mode.
:tabedit -R file_name
Does not seem to work.
Why would you think it would? I see no mention of a -R modifier for
tabedit. Here's the
help for tabedit:
:tabe[dit] *:tabe* *:tabedit* *:tabnew*
:tabnew Open a new tab page with an empty window, after the current
tab page.
:tabe[dit] [++opt] [+cmd] {file}
:tabnew [++opt] [+cmd] {file}
Open a new tab page and edit {file}, like with |:edit|.
No minus-anythings there. At least it'd seem more likely that a +
something might work...
OK, so let's look around:
:he tabtab
to see a list of tab related help items/commands. The first command on
that list is
:tab
The help for that says:
Execute {cmd} and when it opens a new window open a new tab page
instead. ..snip..
OK, so let's look around for something that will open a new window, but
in read-only
mode. Doing :he readonlytab gives us readonly, write-readonly, and
noreadonly,
none of which seem to me to be likely to help. So, let's try
:helpgrep readonly
:cope
Look over the list of matches in the quickfix window (which is what
:cope opened)
for windows.txt; because, after all, what you want is to open a readonly
window.
Hmm, there's a line:
windows.txt|185 col 30| Same as :split, but set 'readonly' option for
this buffer.
which, when I hit the cr and go to it, mentions something about the
sview command.
So, put the two together: :tab sview SomeFile
and you get your new tab with readonly set, opened to SomeFile.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
Re: an indentation question
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: P.S. I'm no Vim official, just a user like you. Next time, please use reply to all rather than reply to sender so the list gets it and, if e.g. I've gone to bed, someone else can reply. But, Anthony -- you get paid the top salary available for Vim mailing list personnel! :) Of course, it's probably a bit difficult to buy a cup of coffee with it... Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: an indentation question
But, Anthony -- you get paid the top salary available for Vim mailing list personnel! :) Of course, it's probably a bit difficult to buy a cup of coffee with it... And you're both still making twice my vim mailing-list salary! :) -a mock-disgruntled tim
Re: an indentation question
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: P.S. I'm no Vim official, just a user like you. Next time, please use reply to all rather than reply to sender so the list gets it and, if e.g. I've gone to bed, someone else can reply. But, Anthony -- you get paid the top salary available for Vim mailing list personnel! :) Of course, it's probably a bit difficult to buy a cup of coffee with it... Regards, Chip Campbell No, Dr. Chip, Bram earns more out of Vim than I do. Sure, he does more than just answer the mailing list, and I wouldn't want to be in his seat, so that's OK by me. Anyway, cup of coffee or no, any matters on-topic for the list had better stay on the list: I can go to bed, or into town, or even (as happened earlier this year) have my computer suddenly go on strike... I don't like coffee, but I have enough boxes of various kinds of tea in my kitchen to last me for quite some time, provided of course that I have water at the faucet and gas for the kettle. ;-) Tea is only a very small part of my food budget. Best regards, Tony.
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:29:05 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc If your text is in a file on its own, you can use :r with a line number (the number of the line after which to insert, or 0 for before first line, or . for after cursor line, or $ for after last line; default is after cursor line) in the range position, i.e. just before the r. The file name comes as an argument at the end. Example (after line 5): 5r ~/template.txt If your text is in a register, you can use :put with a line number (again) in the range position and the register name (including , which must be escaped as \, for the default register; or + for the system clipboard) after the :put. Example (before cursor line): .-1put \ See :help :read :help :put Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, thank you for your reply ! :) No, sorry...I was simply searching for a function call like printf( This is my text! ) but instead of C and printing onto stdout it should be vim-script and the text should go right at the current cursor position. Thats all. No registers, no script magic, not extra files. Simply put a string after the cursor into the text. Keep hacking! mcc
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
From: Marius Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:52:42 +0200 On 8/18/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc Hi I got this in my .vimrc: function! ReadSkeleton() if exists (g:Skeleton_path) let skeleton_path = g:Skeleton_path else let skeleton_path = getcwd() endif let filenameList = split (glob ( skeleton_path . /*.*) , \n) let filenameList = insert (filenameList, Select skeleton to load) let choiceList = copy (filenameList) let choiceList = map (choiceList, 'index(filenameList,v:val) .. . v:val') let choiceList[0] = Select skeleton to load let listLen = len(choiceList) let choiceList = add (choiceList, listLen . . Browse for some other folder (gui ONLY)) let choice = inputlist(choiceList) echo choice let skeletonName = if choice == listLen Do the browse thingie if possible if has(browse) let skeletonName = browse(0,Select session to restore,skeleton_path,) echo skeletonName endif elseif choice 0 Load the file let skeletonName = filenameList[choice] echo setting skeletonName to . skeletonName endif if skeletonName != execute 0read . skeletonName endif endfunction nmap F4 :call ReadSkeleton()cr let Skeleton_path = /home/mroets/.vim/skeletons I put all the skeletons for programs (perl, c , php etc), each in their own file in a directory, and set Skeleton_path to this directory in my .vimrc. Now I press F4 and choose which skeleton I want for my new file. HTH Marius Hi Marius! thank you for your reply and the script ! That's far more that I ever want ! :) I was simply for an aquivalent to printf( This is my text! ) but instead of C and printing via stdout it should be vim script and the text should go right to the current cursor position. That's all! Keep hacking! mcc
RE: use '/' to find both upper and lower case instances
I have a need to use '/' to find something in a file, but I wish it to ignore case. So say I'm looking for 'foo' then I want to find all instances for 'foo' and 'FOO' Can try :set ignorecase or :set ic to do so. Former will almost always work, latter works on some variants of 'vi' but not all.
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:29:05 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc If your text is in a file on its own, you can use :r with a line number (the number of the line after which to insert, or 0 for before first line, or . for after cursor line, or $ for after last line; default is after cursor line) in the range position, i.e. just before the r. The file name comes as an argument at the end. Example (after line 5): 5r ~/template.txt If your text is in a register, you can use :put with a line number (again) in the range position and the register name (including , which must be escaped as \, for the default register; or + for the system clipboard) after the :put. Example (before cursor line): .-1put \ See :help :read :help :put Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, thank you for your reply ! :) No, sorry...I was simply searching for a function call like printf( This is my text! ) but instead of C and printing onto stdout it should be vim-script and the text should go right at the current cursor position. Thats all. No registers, no script magic, not extra files. Simply put a string after the cursor into the text. Keep hacking! mcc (Untested): Characterwise: exe normal aThis is my text!\Esc Linewise: exe normal oThis is my text!\Esc If I didn't goof, you can paste one of the above lines straight into your script (via the clipboard). Best regards, Tony.
Re: ANN: vcscommand beta 4 (supercedes cvscommand)
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Bob Hiestand apparently wrote: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=90 I see that many people are liking this plugin. Could you please add a few details about how it works and why it is better than just using the SVN executables. Thank you, Alan Isaac
comment command tightness
I am using this commenting mapping to place /* */ around text: map C-c :s/^\(.*\)$/\/\* \1 \*\//CR:nohlsCR However, I would like it be tighter, meaning that instead of /* blah blah blah */ I would like to see /* blah blah blah */ Is there a way to do this? DVM
Paragraph formatting options
I use the :gwap command a lot. I'd like to fine-tune it. Can the following be done? I'd like to reformat only those lines with the same indentation (and keep the indent). I tend to write a lot of HTML and documentation with indented blocks. For example: hive.py This script creates SSH connections to a list of hosts that you provide. Then you are given a command line prompt. Each shell command that you enter is sent to all the hosts. The response from each host is collected and printed. For example, you could connect to a dozen different machines and reboot them all at once. When I hit :gwap in the body of the paragraph I get this: hive.py This script creates SSH connections to a list of hosts that you provide. Then you are given a command line prompt. Each shell command that you enter is sent to all the hosts. The response from each host is collected and printed. For example, you could connect to a dozen different machines and reboot them all at once. I want two thing to happen instead. First, I would like the indent to be preserved. Second, I would like it to only format the indented paragraph and not leak into the previous non-indented line. In other words I would like to define a parahraph as only those line with the same indent (yes, I'm a Python programmer ;-). So, what I would like to see is this: hive.py This script creates SSH connections to a list of hosts that you provide. Then you are given a command line prompt. Each shell command that you enter is sent to all the hosts. The response from each host is collected and printed. For example, you could connect to a dozen different machines and reboot them all at once. Yours, Noah
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
On 2006-08-18, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerin Joy wrote:, I have a lot of source code distributed over a directory hierarchy structure. I always need to find class declarations, instances where variables are set etc. Usually I just go to command line and run something like find . -name *.vr -print | xargs grep 'class foo' Isn't there an easier way to do this in vim? I can't use cscope since the source is not in C. Read :help netrw-starstarpat : :Explore **//class foo for example. You'll be presented with an netrw browser display in each subdirectory with matching files and the cursor on the first file that matches. Use shift-up and shift-down to move the cursor to previous or subsequent files with matches. Hit the cr when your cursor is on an interesting file to select and edit it. I've never used the netrw's :Explore command before, but seeing this, I read the help sections on pattern-searching and tried the example from *netrw-starstar*. It doesn't seem to work. I'm using Vim-7.0 and netrw v103 on SunOS 5.8. $ cd /home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/vim-7.0/vim70/src $ vim -N -u NONE :runtime plugin/netrwPlugin.vim :Explore **/*.c E77: Too many file names Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
SORBS, etc.
Piqued my curiosity, asked around, got back this as a possible explanation: See http://www.us.sorbs.net/faq/spamdb.shtml I have *no* idea who Joey McNichols be, or why he needs a legal defense, etc., but it seems as though the whole SORBS thing might be on the up-and-up, if unpopular o those who got zinged by it. Lis, I know nothing about SORBS, etc., until today when I saw this, so I have no real opinion either way. Just posted for whatever it may be worth...
Re: Paragraph formatting options
Try this: set fo+=w and then leave no white space after your outdented header. Then you can gwap to your hearts content. Not quite what you asked for ... hth, Alan Isaac
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On 8/18/06, Noah Spurrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the :gwap command a lot. I'd like to fine-tune it. Can the following be done? I'd like to reformat only those lines with the same indentation (and keep the indent). [...] I'm sure it could be scripted up fairly easily. In the meantime you could do it manually with little effort, like: V select the block you want to reformat gq It'd be nice to have a function to do this in one motion but I've been too lazy lately. :)
RE: SORBS, etc.
Piqued my curiosity, asked around, got back this as a possible explanation: See http://www.us.sorbs.net/faq/spamdb.shtml I have *no* idea who Joey McNichols be, or why he needs a legal defense, etc., but it seems as though the whole SORBS thing might be on the up-and-up, if unpopular o those who got zinged by it. No matter what, the ISP has to pay their way out of the blacklist. It still seems to be a crappy way of running a spam blacklist to me. My mail hosting provider is a small company, and probably couldn't afford to stay in business if they had to pay $50 for every piece of spam that some of its less-virtuous customers chose to send. Which is kind of the point. If a provider doesn't impose at least minimally-intrusive measures to prevent spamming (eg, maximum of N emails sent per hour, progressively slowing to a crawl with increasing volume, etc.), ie, things which wouldn't affect you or me no matter how prolific we are in emailing, but which would cripple spammers (eg, do I personally need to send 1000 emails in one shot?), then quite frankly, if someone *does* abuse it, the provider can't cry foul that they're blameless victims. Believe me, I wouldn't shed a single tear if pissed-off vigilantes would quite literally hunt down and kill the top 10 known spammers and set their computers on fire, so I personally am willing to suffer not being able to send 1000 or even 100 emails in one day (as long as they're queued up and not lost, should I want to send announcements to friends that I'm changing an email address, etc.). If a provider can't/won't put even minor inconveniences to dissuade spamming, then they deserve to be SORBSed. If SORBS would pocket their fines, that's one thing, but as they explicitly don't want to be connected with any charities they approve of in their list, that to me seems to be on the up-and-up. Have Bram ask SORBS to include among the list of approved charities those that assist Ugandans and Ethernopians and whatnot. Let some good come out of spammers' eee-vil actions, and the providers who unwittingly abet them. To use an analogy, if I leave a loaded gun or samurai sword or something, out on my front lawn, and some idiot kid goes and hurts or even kills someone with it, can I insist that I'm blameless in the matter? Or should I instead bear some of the blame for my recklessness? The more I think about it, the more I gotta agree with SORBS, that if some provider did something to trigger being blacklisted, they *should* in fact have to pay. Maybe next time they'd look a little more closely at their clientele. If you want a waiver to send more than N emails/day (eg, for a mailing list), let the provider at least look into the content and make sure you're not hawking V1AAgrA or fake R0L3X watches or whatnot. All that being said, did your provider (the Z-thing?) explain *why* it may've gotten blacklisted in the first place? I'd look into that first. shrug/ Another thing I wanted to point out is that my mail is *never* bounced by any other mailing list or anyone else to which I ever send mail. Kewl. Hope you don't have any more problems with it.
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
Gary Johnson wrote: On 2006-08-18, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read :help netrw-starstarpat : :Explore **//class foo for example. You'll be presented with an netrw browser display in each subdirectory with matching files and the cursor on the first file that matches. Use shift-up and shift-down to move the cursor to previous or subsequent files with matches. Hit the cr when your cursor is on an interesting file to select and edit it. I've never used the netrw's :Explore command before, but seeing this, I read the help sections on pattern-searching and tried the example from *netrw-starstar*. It doesn't seem to work. I'm using Vim-7.0 and netrw v103 on SunOS 5.8. $ cd /home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/vim-7.0/vim70/src $ vim -N -u NONE :runtime plugin/netrwPlugin.vim :Explore **/*.c E77: Too many file names Sigh -- I'm not sure what to do about this one. Turns out that: com! ... -complete=dir Explore ... causes the E77 with Too many file names. Simply removing the -complete=dir from the command fixes things. Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
On 2006-08-18, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Johnson wrote: On 2006-08-18, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read :help netrw-starstarpat : :Explore **//class foo for example. You'll be presented with an netrw browser display in each subdirectory with matching files and the cursor on the first file that matches. Use shift-up and shift-down to move the cursor to previous or subsequent files with matches. Hit the cr when your cursor is on an interesting file to select and edit it. I've never used the netrw's :Explore command before, but seeing this, I read the help sections on pattern-searching and tried the example from *netrw-starstar*. It doesn't seem to work. I'm using Vim-7.0 and netrw v103 on SunOS 5.8. $ cd /home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/vim-7.0/vim70/src $ vim -N -u NONE :runtime plugin/netrwPlugin.vim :Explore **/*.c E77: Too many file names Sigh -- I'm not sure what to do about this one. Turns out that: com! ... -complete=dir Explore ... causes the E77 with Too many file names. Simply removing the -complete=dir from the command fixes things. Thanks. That removes the error and gives me a list of files, but included in that list are non-*.c names such as INSTALL Makefile README.txt Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
Gary Johnson wrote: Thanks. That removes the error and gives me a list of files, but included in that list are non-*.c names such as INSTALL Makefile README.txt :Explore **/*.c doesn't give a list of just *.c files. Instead, it opens a browser listing of every directory with *.c files in it. The cursor will be on the first such .c file; you may edit it if you wish. If its not the one you want, shift-down will move the cursor to the next .c file, repeat at will. One may go back with shiftup . Directory displays will change as necessary. Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: Search all text files in a directory for text
On 2006-08-18, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Johnson wrote: Thanks. That removes the error and gives me a list of files, but included in that list are non-*.c names such as INSTALL Makefile README.txt :Explore **/*.c doesn't give a list of just *.c files. Instead, it opens a browser listing of every directory with *.c files in it. The cursor will be on the first such .c file; you may edit it if you wish. If its not the one you want, shift-down will move the cursor to the next .c file, repeat at will. One may go back with shiftup . Directory displays will change as necessary. OH! Got it. I found another problem, though. Following my previous example and proceeding from $ vim -N -u NONE I execute the following commands and the cursor moves to the file indicated. +-+-+ | Command | Resulting | | | Cursor Location | +=+=+ | :Explore **/*.c | arabic.c| | | | | :Nexplore | auto/pathdef.c | | :Nexplore | buffer.c| | :Nexplore | charset.c | | :Nexplore | diff.c | | | | | :Pexplore | diff.c | | :Pexplore | diff.c | | :Pexplore | auto/pathdef.c | | :Pexplore | arabic.c| +-+-+ So there seems to be a pointer traversing an internal list of files that is moved by the :Nexplore and :Pexplore commands. The :Nexplore and :Pexplore commands both control this pointer correctly, but only the :Nexplore command updates the cursor location correctly, unless the directory is changed. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:12:19PM EDT, Alan G Isaac wrote: Try this: set fo+=w and then leave no white space after your outdented header. Then you can gwap to your hearts content. Not quite what you asked for ... I realize that this is not what you asked for either .. but what is this gwap (or :gwap ..) command? Seems it is not recognized by Vim 6.3. Another good reason to upgrade? Thanks cga
Re[2]: Paragraph formatting options
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, apparently wrote: but what is this gwap (or :gwap ..) command? Seems it is not recognized by Vim 6.3 :h gw Enjoy. Alan Isaac
ksh93s
Hi all The wikipedia entry for the Korn shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korn_shell has a tantalizing parenthetical note: ksh93s will add a 4th vim mode Googling for ksh93s + vim only finds the wikipedia article, or copies of it, and ksh93 + vim mode the same, and ksh93 + vim nothing I recognized as relevant. Does anyone here know anything about it? John
Tip: selecting a file to edit with the handy completion feature
Only recently did I read the vim manual for command line completion. In the documentation, I found that the following is a handy way to open a file when using the :e command. 1. Type :e followed with a space. 2. Type the first a few characters of the file you want to edit. 3. Press CTRL-L. Vim will do completion like most UNIX shells do. 4. Type more characters if the file name is not expected. 5. Repeat step 3 to 4 until the file name is complete. Note: After pressing CTRL-L, if you still cannot remember the rest part of the file name, press CTRL-D to list all possible names. This works like the Bourne Again Shell. Happy Vimming!
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 08:12:01PM EDT, Alan G Isaac wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, apparently wrote: but what is this gwap (or :gwap ..) command? Seems it is not recognized by Vim 6.3 :h gw guess what .. I was mistyping it .. .. something like gwa- I guess .. didn't realize it was gw+[motion] :-( Enjoy. Many thanks.. I certainly do..! I there a way I can enter effortlessly stuff like the following: 1. this is a numbered paragraph several lines long and I would like all lines aligned with the this which starts in column 4. I don't know if it's good typography but I use these numbered lists a lot and with the text aligned I think it looks better. .. and format it like this: 1. this is a numbered paragraph several lines long and I would like all lines aligned with the this which starts in column 4. I don't know if it's good typography but I use these numbered lists a lot and with the text aligned I think it looks better. .. or possibly make Vim indent this automatically when typing..? I mean that I usually have a textwidth of 72 and Vim automatically wraps to line 2 after I have written the all at the end of line 1 .. but obviously Vim has no reason to indent and therefore starts line 2 and the following lines in column 1. Is there any way I can tell Vim that when line 1 starts with a number followed by a dot '.' .. the following lines should be indented so that all the text is aligned. Not simple .. I guess .. since this could move into double digits (or more..) -- there could be more than nine numbered paragraphs and text should start in column 5 (or 6..). Or maybe somone has written a script that can convert a bunch of paragraphs into something like a numbered (or bulleted) list? Thanks cga
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On 2006-08-18, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I there a way I can enter effortlessly stuff like the following: 1. this is a numbered paragraph several lines long and I would like all lines aligned with the this which starts in column 4. I don't know if it's good typography but I use these numbered lists a lot and with the text aligned I think it looks better. .. and format it like this: 1. this is a numbered paragraph several lines long and I would like all lines aligned with the this which starts in column 4. I don't know if it's good typography but I use these numbered lists a lot and with the text aligned I think it looks better. .. or possibly make Vim indent this automatically when typing..? I mean that I usually have a textwidth of 72 and Vim automatically wraps to line 2 after I have written the all at the end of line 1 .. but obviously Vim has no reason to indent and therefore starts line 2 and the following lines in column 1. Is there any way I can tell Vim that when line 1 starts with a number followed by a dot '.' .. the following lines should be indented so that all the text is aligned. Not simple .. I guess .. since this could move into double digits (or more..) -- there could be more than nine numbered paragraphs and text should start in column 5 (or 6..). Or maybe somone has written a script that can convert a bunch of paragraphs into something like a numbered (or bulleted) list? For numbered lists, set fo+=n For bulleted lists using '-', set com+=fb:- or '*', set com+=fb:* but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option unless you have changed it. (Odd that numbered lists and bulleted lists use different options.) See :help 'fo' :help 'com' I also have '2' as part of my 'formatoptions' string. I don't think it affects lists, but you might try it if those other settings don't work as you'd like them to. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On 2006-08-18, Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For bulleted lists using '-', set com+=fb:- or '*', set com+=fb:* but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option unless you have changed it. I just checked again. fb:- is there by default; I added fb:* in my .vimrc and ftplugin/mail.vim. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: Tip: selecting a file to edit with the handy completion feature
Fan Decheng wrote: Only recently did I read the vim manual for command line completion. In the documentation, I found that the following is a handy way to open a file when using the :e command. 1. Type :e followed with a space. 2. Type the first a few characters of the file you want to edit. 3. Press CTRL-L. Vim will do completion like most UNIX shells do. 4. Type more characters if the file name is not expected. 5. Repeat step 3 to 4 until the file name is complete. Note: After pressing CTRL-L, if you still cannot remember the rest part of the file name, press CTRL-D to list all possible names. This works like the Bourne Again Shell. Happy Vimming! If you have 'wildmenu' on, you can do the same with Tab instead of Ctrl-L, and get a menu of possible completions on the bottom status line. Use the left and right arrow keys to cycle through the possible completions and what you initially typed, down-arrow to descend into a subdirectory, add some more letters and tab again for a narrower choice, Enter to accept, Esc to abort, etc. To complete the longest common match in addition to this menu behaviour, use :set wildmenu wildmode=longest:full. see :help 'wildmenu' :help 'wildmode' Best regards, Tony.
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:15:10AM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2006-08-18, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [help creating numbered and bulleted lists in Vim] For numbered lists, set fo+=n For bulleted lists using '-', set com+=fb:- or '*', set com+=fb:* but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option unless you have changed it. (Odd that numbered lists and bulleted lists use different options.) See :help 'fo' :help 'com' I also have '2' as part of my 'formatoptions' string. I don't think it affects lists, but you might try it if those other settings don't work as you'd like them to. Looks very promising. I'm three hours behind/ahead of you (EST) .. so it's bedtime for me .. Main thing that I have to figure out is a simple way to get back to column 1 when starting a new list item. When I am done entering item #1, I need to type 2. in columns 1 and 2 and if I just hit enter to start a new line, Vim jumps to column 4. So I escape back to command mode .. Vim moves the cursor to column 1 .. I hit i .. Also, I created a ten-item list and the text in item #10 and items #1 to #9 is not aligned. So I select the column that has the space that separated 1. .. 2. .. from the text Ctrl-V .. yank it .. and hit p causing Vim to indent the text in items 1-9 by an additional column. Need to check the help files .. see if there's a better way. Lastly.. I need to check what happens with fo+=a .. see if this plays well with automatic formatting of paragraphs. Hopefully Vim will reflow text without losing track of the list indent. Thank you very much.. cga
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:22:56AM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2006-08-18, Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For bulleted lists using '-', set com+=fb:- or '*', set com+=fb:* but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option unless you have changed it. I just checked again. fb:- is there by default; I added fb:* in my .vimrc and ftplugin/mail.vim. I'll probably use the dot '.' .. hope it doesn't clash with anything.. Or maybe there's a :digraph that would look good and yet not cause trouble in email, printouts, .. eg. Thanks again, cga
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:05:13 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:29:05 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc If your text is in a file on its own, you can use :r with a line number (the number of the line after which to insert, or 0 for before first line, or . for after cursor line, or $ for after last line; default is after cursor line) in the range position, i.e. just before the r. The file name comes as an argument at the end. Example (after line 5): 5r ~/template.txt If your text is in a register, you can use :put with a line number (again) in the range position and the register name (including , which must be escaped as \, for the default register; or + for the system clipboard) after the :put. Example (before cursor line): .-1put \ See :help :read :help :put Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, thank you for your reply ! :) No, sorry...I was simply searching for a function call like printf( This is my text! ) but instead of C and printing onto stdout it should be vim-script and the text should go right at the current cursor position. Thats all. No registers, no script magic, not extra files. Simply put a string after the cursor into the text. Keep hacking! mcc (Untested): Characterwise: exe normal aThis is my text!\Esc Linewise: exe normal oThis is my text!\Esc If I didn't goof, you can paste one of the above lines straight into your script (via the clipboard). Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, this works so far...with an unwanted sideeffekt: Instead of This is my text! in my buffer I get This is my text!Esc in my text. When using exe normal aThis is my text!\Esc instead, vim says in the commandline: E121: Undefined variable: Esc E15 Invalid expression: normalaThis is my textEsc . No way out ? Kind regards, mcc
Re: Tip: selecting a file to edit with the handy completion feature
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 at 8:37am, Fan Decheng wrote: Only recently did I read the vim manual for command line completion. In the documentation, I found that the following is a handy way to open a file when using the :e command. 1. Type :e followed with a space. 2. Type the first a few characters of the file you want to edit. 3. Press CTRL-L. Vim will do completion like most UNIX shells do. 4. Type more characters if the file name is not expected. 5. Repeat step 3 to 4 until the file name is complete. Note: After pressing CTRL-L, if you still cannot remember the rest part of the file name, press CTRL-D to list all possible names. This works like the Bourne Again Shell. Happy Vimming! For a much better completion option (using Vim7 popup completion), try the LUWalk command in my lookupfile plugin: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1581 As you type each component of the path, you will be shown matches in a popup window. You can also use wildcards such as ** to search subdirectories. -- Thanks, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Paragraph formatting options
cga2000 wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:22:56AM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2006-08-18, Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For bulleted lists using '-', set com+=fb:- or '*', set com+=fb:* but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option unless you have changed it. I just checked again. fb:- is there by default; I added fb:* in my .vimrc and ftplugin/mail.vim. I'll probably use the dot '.' .. hope it doesn't clash with anything.. Or maybe there's a :digraph that would look good and yet not cause trouble in email, printouts, .. eg. Thanks again, cga If you're using Latin1 or UTF-8, you may try: - Currency sign (decimal 164, ¤, ^KCu) - Middle dot (decimal 183, ·, ^K.M) - or even a lowercase o, but in that case you should make sure that it isn't recognised as a bullet unless followed by a space or tab. Best regards, Tony.
Re: Paragraph formatting options
On 2006-08-19, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 12:15:10AM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2006-08-18, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [help creating numbered and bulleted lists in Vim] For numbered lists, set fo+=n For bulleted lists using '-', set com+=fb:- or '*', set com+=fb:* but those should already be part of the default 'comments' option unless you have changed it. (Odd that numbered lists and bulleted lists use different options.) See :help 'fo' :help 'com' I also have '2' as part of my 'formatoptions' string. I don't think it affects lists, but you might try it if those other settings don't work as you'd like them to. Looks very promising. I'm three hours behind/ahead of you (EST) .. so it's bedtime for me .. It's getting late here, too, but I just got a new Windows PC and two new flat-panel monitors that I share between the Windows PC and my Linux PC, so I'm trying to get everything configured the way I want. Main thing that I have to figure out is a simple way to get back to column 1 when starting a new list item. When I am done entering item #1, I need to type 2. in columns 1 and 2 and if I just hit enter to start a new line, Vim jumps to column 4. So I escape back to command mode .. Vim moves the cursor to column 1 .. I hit i .. Just hit Ctrl-D after the enter that finishes the item. Actually, you can hit Ctrl-D any time while you're typing the next numbered line. That will move the line one shift-width to the left, just as '' does in normal mode. Also, I created a ten-item list and the text in item #10 and items #1 to #9 is not aligned. So I select the column that has the space that separated 1. .. 2. .. from the text Ctrl-V .. yank it .. and hit p causing Vim to indent the text in items 1-9 by an additional column. Need to check the help files .. see if there's a better way. I usually usually use Ctrl-V to select the first column of text, then type 'I' and a space and Esc. Your method is slightly better, as long as you're not using tabs and a deeply-indented list. Lastly.. I need to check what happens with fo+=a .. see if this plays well with automatic formatting of paragraphs. Hopefully Vim will reflow text without losing track of the list indent. It seems to work well most of the time, but there are a few cases where it doesn't, notably when a sentence ends in a number, such as a year or a model number, and that number wraps to the start of the next line. Then vim insists on indenting the line following that number as though the number was a list item. Like this, assuming a narrow 'textwidth': Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Then some more text just to fill in the line. Consequently, I never include 'n' and 'aw' in 'fo' at the same time. Thank you very much.. You're most welcome. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: How to insert text via script/function call ?
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:05:13 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to insert text via script/function call ? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:29:05 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I often need to place a header above a function defintion (C-source) fpr documentational purposes. What I treid is to write a short function for vim, which dioes insert the text skeleton -- but I did not find any already existing function in the API which does this for me. With :i I got weird effects -- sure my fault, but... . How can I insert text via a script ? Kind regards, mcc If your text is in a file on its own, you can use :r with a line number (the number of the line after which to insert, or 0 for before first line, or . for after cursor line, or $ for after last line; default is after cursor line) in the range position, i.e. just before the r. The file name comes as an argument at the end. Example (after line 5): 5r ~/template.txt If your text is in a register, you can use :put with a line number (again) in the range position and the register name (including , which must be escaped as \, for the default register; or + for the system clipboard) after the :put. Example (before cursor line): .-1put \ See :help :read :help :put Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, thank you for your reply ! :) No, sorry...I was simply searching for a function call like printf( This is my text! ) but instead of C and printing onto stdout it should be vim-script and the text should go right at the current cursor position. Thats all. No registers, no script magic, not extra files. Simply put a string after the cursor into the text. Keep hacking! mcc (Untested): Characterwise: exe normal aThis is my text!\Esc Linewise: exe normal oThis is my text!\Esc If I didn't goof, you can paste one of the above lines straight into your script (via the clipboard). Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, this works so far...with an unwanted sideeffekt: Instead of This is my text! in my buffer I get This is my text!Esc in my text. I get the text properly inserted. Are you sure that you used double quotes around the string and that it ended (before the closing double quote) with backslash, less-than, E-for-Echo, s-for-Sierra, c-for-Charlie, greater-than ? If it didn't, then you didn't use the lines above by copy-paste as I told you. Or else, maybe you have 'compatible' set? (check it by :verbose set compatible? without the quotes but with the question mark). When using exe normal aThis is my text!\Esc instead, vim says in the commandline: E121: Undefined variable: Esc E15 Invalid expression: normalaThis is my textEsc . No way out ? Kind regards, mcc Try :exe normal aThis is my text!\e and make sure that you use double quotes, not single quotes. see :help expr-string Best regards, Tony.
