vim patch for cygwin
I'm not sure if this is the right way to submit a patch. Anyway the attached patch should solve the problem with symbolic links. For ex. when editing /etc/hosts we get the warning E303: Unable to open swap file for hosts, recovery impossible (/etc/hosts is a symlink in cygwin) Regards. Luca. diff --recursive --unified vim-7.0.223-1/src/window.c vim-7.0.223-1-patched/src/window.c --- vim-7.0.223-1/src/window.c 2007-03-27 17:46:56.0 +0200 +++ vim-7.0.223-1-patched/src/window.c 2007-04-15 03:30:44.056467200 +0200 @@ -5874,6 +5874,9 @@ #if defined(MACOS_CLASSIC) || defined(OS2) || defined(MSDOS) || defined(MSWIN) slash_adjust(buf); #endif +#if defined(__CYGWIN__) +cygwin_conv_to_posix_path( buf, buf ); +#endif return retval; }
VIM doesn't need new features?!?!
Hi, I like VIM. I want to use VIM as my everyday editor. I even spent a frustrating week trying to determine if VIM could replace Textmate as my main editor. VIM is very good for working with a single file but the concept of a project is not really there. I looked at plugins, talked with people in #vim about plugins and how to extend VIM. I figured it would probably take a year of spare time for me to learn how and then write the plugin to do what Textmate can do with respect to projects right when it is installed: a project drawer, project tabs, multiple open projects, project-wide search and selective replace. And now I see that VIM doesn't need more features... http://www.vim.org/soc/ideas.php Darn. Peter
RE: VIM doesn't need new features?!?!
Peter Michaux wrote on April 15, 2007 I like VIM. I want to use VIM as my everyday editor. I even spent a frustrating week trying to determine if VIM could replace Textmate as my main editor. VIM is very good for working with a single file but the concept of a project is not really there. If the user has a certain concept of a project vim gives him many ways to implement that concept. But it is up to him to work at defining the concept and using some language (vimL, perl or python) to implement it. I looked at plugins, talked with people in #vim about plugins and how to extend VIM. A few others have implemented their idea of a project and offered their work to others as plugins at vim.org. I figured it would probably take a year of spare time for me to learn how and then write the plugin Too bad that none of their idea of a project matches yours! to do what Textmate can do with respect to projects right when it is installed: a project drawer, project tabs, multiple open projects, project-wide search and selective replace. And now I see that VIM doesn't need more features... http://www.vim.org/soc/ideas.php The preceding shows you have trouble reading -- that page has a link to a voting page, which page lists certain core features that could be added to vim. If your investigation into plugins was as casual as your reading of the above link, then your efforts at finding and evaluating existing plugins in relation to your notion of a project are likely to have been botched! Darn. Peter
Re: VIM doesn't need new features?!?!
On 4/15/07, Suresh Govindachar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to do what Textmate can do with respect to projects right when it is installed: a project drawer, project tabs, multiple open projects, project-wide search and selective replace. And now I see that VIM doesn't need more features... http://www.vim.org/soc/ideas.php The preceding shows you have trouble reading -- that page has a link to a voting page, which page lists certain core features that could be added to vim. If your investigation into plugins was as casual as your reading of the above link, then your efforts at finding and evaluating existing plugins in relation to your notion of a project are likely to have been botched! Vim has many, many features. We don't really need more Peter
how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
Dear all, The question is: When I insert a line then Esc to edit other place, vim of C filetype delete the auto-indented space. But i want to keep the indent there for the future editing? Then how to make the auto-indent always insert the indent-space regardless whether the line is empty or not? I read the help file about the 'cpoption' option, it says 'set cpoption+=I' can avoid the indent deleting when move the cursor updown, but I can't let that work. Best Regards, sun
Re: how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
sun wrote:
Dear all,
The question is:
When I insert a line then Esc to edit other place, vim of C filetype
delete the auto-indented space. But i want to keep the indent there
for the future editing? Then how to make the auto-indent always insert
the indent-space regardless whether the line is empty or not?
I read the help file about the 'cpoption' option, it says 'set
cpoption+=I' can avoid the indent deleting when move the cursor
updown, but I can't let that work.
Best Regards,
sun
If you type an arbitrary character, then delete it immediately, does the extra
whitespace stay in place when you move the cursor away? If it does, you may
resort to adding a placeholder comment, like:
function MyFunc()
{
/* TODO: code needed here */
};
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Nuke the gay, unborn, baby whales for Jesus.
Re: Moving cursor on wrapped lines
Thanks! -- Best regards, Pavel
Making vim more friendly under windows with non ascii codepage
I often type in vim using cp1251 charset under windows and currently I have to switch to english charset every time I need to execute any action in command mode which is quite inconvenient. For example I have ш Russian symbol along with i on the same button on my keyboard. It would be very nice if while in command mode ш would actually map to i. The same story with other keys. Thus I won't have to switch to ascii in command mode. -- Best regards, Pavel
Re: how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
If you type an arbitrary character, then delete it immediately, does the extra
whitespace stay in place when you move the cursor away?
yes, the spaces remain.
If it does, you may
resort to adding a placeholder comment, like:
function MyFunc()
{
/* TODO: code needed here */
};
you mean just add several character using a quick-key map? but then
everytime i type the code before /* TODO: code needed here */, i
have to delete it.
can i change the default behavior of vim not to delete the indent?
how to create a command
hello there vim dudes. i am using the gmail.vim plugin. Its cool, and allows me to send myself messages. This is how i keep my TODO list, with filters and gmail plus addressing. So anyway. It uses a command like this :GMSend someemailaddress. now, since i am using the same email address everytime i do this, i would like a new command that will be shorter. like :todo or something. is there something i can put in my .vimrc that will let me do this ? Or would some mapping be more appropriate ? thanks sk
Describe-key ?
Hi, is there anything like describe-key (EMacs)in vim ? In EMacs vou can submit this command, press a combination of keys and EMacs will tel you the naming convention of this key (for example Meta-p) and its current bindings of that combination of keys. Anything like that in vim ? Would help a lot :) Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Re: how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
sun wrote:
If you type an arbitrary character, then delete it immediately, does
the extra
whitespace stay in place when you move the cursor away?
yes, the spaces remain.
If it does, you may
I meant if it doesn't
resort to adding a placeholder comment, like:
function MyFunc()
{
/* TODO: code needed here */
};
you mean just add several character using a quick-key map? but then
everytime i type the code before /* TODO: code needed here */, i
have to delete it.
can i change the default behavior of vim not to delete the indent?
The idea of the comment shown above was to leave something to remind you that
you had to come back later, since, as you said, you want to leave the indent
there for future use; also, the comment would be sure to stay in place even
if the bare indent didn't. But if just adding, let's say, a period, then
backspacing over it, makes the indent remain, then you don't have to type a
lengthy comment unless you need it.
You may even try (untested)
:inoremap CR CR.BS
Note: Next time, please use Reply to all rather than Reply to sender,
unless you're straying off-topic.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
171. You invent another person and chat with yourself in empty chat rooms.
Re: let loaded_matchparen = 1
On 4/13/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre Majorel wrote: Are there any plans to make the highlight-the-matching-thing feature disabled by default in a future release of Vim ? AFAIK, there isn't; for one thing, it would break all the vimrc's which rely on its being set by default (and therefore don't force-set it). As your Subject line shows, you know how to remove that feature. Best regards, Tony. -- Sorry. I forget what I was going to say. Personally I like this feature, but I do get lost every now and then and forget which one is my cursor. Is there any way that I can say, make the cursor have a red background and make the matched paren (or whatever) have a blue background? And is there a way to do this that won't break if the background is already red/blue? -fREW
RE: how to create a command
I'd try just cabbr todo GMSend [EMAIL PROTECTED] The c in front makes it only expand in command line mode, otherwise wherever you typed todo (such as in email text you were composing) it'd expand. *tim* -Original Message- From: shawn bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:38 PM To: vimlist Subject: how to create a command hello there vim dudes. i am using the gmail.vim plugin. Its cool, and allows me to send myself messages. This is how i keep my TODO list, with filters and gmail plus addressing. So anyway. It uses a command like this :GMSend someemailaddress. now, since i am using the same email address everytime i do this, i would like a new command that will be shorter. like :todo or something. is there something i can put in my .vimrc that will let me do this ? Or would some mapping be more appropriate ? thanks sk
Re: how to create a command
Thanks, worked great ! sk On 4/15/07, Timothy Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd try just cabbr todo GMSend [EMAIL PROTECTED] The c in front makes it only expand in command line mode, otherwise wherever you typed todo (such as in email text you were composing) it'd expand. *tim* -Original Message- From: shawn bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:38 PM To: vimlist Subject: how to create a command hello there vim dudes. i am using the gmail.vim plugin. Its cool, and allows me to send myself messages. This is how i keep my TODO list, with filters and gmail plus addressing. So anyway. It uses a command like this :GMSend someemailaddress. now, since i am using the same email address everytime i do this, i would like a new command that will be shorter. like :todo or something. is there something i can put in my .vimrc that will let me do this ? Or would some mapping be more appropriate ? thanks sk
gvim: menu disappeared
I am sorry to ask such a stupid question, but I'm really puzzled. I have been using vim for ages now, and for some tasks, not always, I prefer a GUI. I use a Mandriva Linux distribution and it's all right. Suddendly the menu bar (not the toolbar with icons, the menu bar with texts: File, Edit, and so on) disappeared. I tried several options of the set guioptions command, but to no success. I also deleted the .vimrc file, but again no change. Then, installed vim-X11 again, but nothing happened. May I ask your kind help? Thank you! guido, from Italy Guido Milanese http://www.arsantiqua.org
command to delete just whitespace
Hey there, i am looking for a command that will delete all whitespace up until the first character. for example []some_characters []some_characters. i could not find a command to do this ( or perhaps read the cheat sheet and :help d wrong ) thanks sk
Re: command to delete just whitespace
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, shawn bright might have said: Hey there, i am looking for a command that will delete all whitespace up until the first character. for example []some_characters []some_characters. i could not find a command to do this ( or perhaps read the cheat sheet and :help d wrong ) thanks sk Do you mean: :%s/^[ ^I]*//
RE: command to delete just whitespace
:s/^\s*// Add % between : and s to apply it to all lines in the buffer -Original Message- From: shawn bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:14 PM To: vimlist Subject: command to delete just whitespace Hey there, i am looking for a command that will delete all whitespace up until the first character. for example []some_characters []some_characters. i could not find a command to do this ( or perhaps read the cheat sheet and :help d wrong ) thanks sk
Re: command to delete just whitespace
* shawn bright [2007.04.15 20:15]: Hey there, i am looking for a command that will delete all whitespace up until the first character. for example []some_characters []some_characters. :s/^\[\]\zs\s*// -- JR
Re: command to delete just whitespace
ok, let me clarify a bit more. i just need to delete the white space between the cursor and the next character. sorry. sk On 4/15/07, Jean-Rene David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * shawn bright [2007.04.15 20:15]: Hey there, i am looking for a command that will delete all whitespace up until the first character. for example []some_characters []some_characters. :s/^\[\]\zs\s*// -- JR
RE: command to delete just whitespace
Then just d/\S Delete through first non-whitespace char -Original Message- From: shawn bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:41 PM To: vimlist Subject: Re: command to delete just whitespace ok, let me clarify a bit more. i just need to delete the white space between the cursor and the next character. sorry. sk On 4/15/07, Jean-Rene David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * shawn bright [2007.04.15 20:15]: Hey there, i am looking for a command that will delete all whitespace up until the first character. for example []some_characters []some_characters. :s/^\[\]\zs\s*// -- JR
RE: command to delete just whitespace
ok, let me clarify a bit more. i just need to delete the white space between the cursor and the next character. sorry. sk In normal mode, just do dw (without quotes). --Suresh
Re: Vimrc blues.
Ananya M (RBIN/ECM1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2007-04-13 17:02:11: Hi, I m very new to Vim. But I'm smitten by it nevertheless. I use Gvim 7.0. I also have cygwin installed in my winnt system. Cygwin defines $HOME to a network drive and places its own .vimrc file in it. I don’t want gvim to use this rc file since it sits on a server. How do I force gvim to always consider the _vimrc file in $VIM? Is there a command line or registry option? - The gvim docs say that gvim looks for $HOME/_vimrc file first(in Windows environment). However why is my gvim even considering a .vimrc file within $HOME? Shouldn’t it have failed its search for _vimrc in $HOME, and moved on to $VIM to look for the _vimrc file? -- I tried setting $MYVIMRC to $VIM/_vimrc . But this failed, since gvim always overwrites it to $HOME/.vimrc . -- Thanks for all your answers. Best regards, Ananya M //I'm sorry to have sent this mail directly to you. //My mailer daemon failed to deliver the mail to vim@vim.org . Hi, I don't think it's possible to use directories other than $HOME while HOME is defined. But you can redefine the $HOME in your Windows. (System|Properties|Advanced|Environment Variables|User variables) so that the HOME environment variable has a different value, this is the best way IMO. Or you can specify the init file manually. try launch vim by vim --help, you'll see that vim -u can override any .vimrc file. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
auto-scrolling a window?
Hello: I'm using vim as a front end to a server process that communicates with it through the python interface. When the server process is doing something, it sends a lot of output to a vim buffer. I would like to make it so that the window(s) that buffer is bound to will automatically scroll to show the newest data, but I will also be editing other windows simultaneously, so I don't want to have to change focus to that window everytime to scroll it. Currently I can change the position of the cursor in that window without moving to it, but that doesn't scroll the window until the next time it gets focus. Is there any function that can do this? Thanks ahead of time for the help. Joseph
Re: command to delete just whitespace
funny, never noticed that dw works if there is no characters under it. thanks sk On 4/15/07, Suresh Govindachar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, let me clarify a bit more. i just need to delete the white space between the cursor and the next character. sorry. sk In normal mode, just do dw (without quotes). --Suresh
Re: how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2007-04-15 17:27:28: Dear all, The question is: When I insert a line then Esc to edit other place, vim of C filetype delete the auto-indented space. But i want to keep the indent there for the future editing? Then how to make the auto-indent always insert the indent-space regardless whether the line is empty or not? I read the help file about the 'cpoption' option, it says 'set cpoption+=I' can avoid the indent deleting when move the cursor updown, but I can't let that work. Best Regards, sun If you insert a line, and then go somewhere else, and then come back, you can just type dd to delte the newly inserted line and type o to insert a new line again. This is only 3 keystrokes and it solves all problem, your indent come back. Anyway, this behavior is good for avoid trailing blanks. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
Re: gvim: menu disappeared
Guido Milanese [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2007-04-16 05:08:14: I am sorry to ask such a stupid question, but I'm really puzzled. I have been using vim for ages now, and for some tasks, not always, I prefer a GUI. I use a Mandriva Linux distribution and it's all right. Suddendly the menu bar (not the toolbar with icons, the menu bar with texts: File, Edit, and so on) disappeared. I tried several options of the set guioptions command, but to no success. I also deleted the .vimrc file, but again no change. Then, installed vim-X11 again, but nothing happened. May I ask your kind help? Thank you! guido, from Italy Will the :se go+=g show your menu? If not, then your menu may have some error and vim delete it while loading. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
Re: how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
Do I need always type a char then BS? Is there a better solution? I wander whether the vim option can do this automatically. The idea of the comment shown above was to leave something to remind you that you had to come back later, since, as you said, you want to leave the indent there for future use; also, the comment would be sure to stay in place even if the bare indent didn't. But if just adding, let's say, a period, then backspacing over it, makes the indent remain, then you don't have to type a lengthy comment unless you need it. You may even try (untested) :inoremap CRCR.BS Note: Next time, please use Reply to all rather than Reply to sender, unless you're straying off-topic. Best regards, Tony.
Resp.: Help needed on pt_BR spell checking
Finally, I have a working pt dictionary for vim. I attached a shell script, which means I gave up learning AAP. Not that it's hard, but it took me long enough to sit down and write the script, and I wouldn't like to stall any longer. I believe I wrote all the relevant comments in the script. The gzipped spl file is 1,3M large, so I didn't attach it yet. May I send it directly to you, Bram? I have no sug file because it seems that the MAP's are doing a better job than I could do with SOFO's. Leonardo Fontenelle 2007/3/26, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Leonardo Fontenelle wrote: Er... does it make a big difference if I send a regular shell script? I don't know how to write scripts in any other language. That said, if it's important maybe I could learn AAP. Well, I can transform the commands to the Aap script, but we still need to verify that the result is the same. Or I can generate and upload the spell file and then you check if it's OK. You can use :spelldump with your and the uploaded dictionary. -- Close your shells, or I'll kill -9 you Tomorrow I'll quota you Remember the disks'll always be full And then while I'm away I'll write ~ everyday And I'll send-pr all my buggings to you. [ CVS log Beatles style for FreeBSD ports/INDEX, Satoshi Asami ] /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org/// mkvim.sh Description: Bourne shell script
Re: Making vim more friendly under windows with non ascii codepage
Hi! On 4/15/07, Pavel Shevaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often type in vim using cp1251 charset under windows and currently I have to switch to english charset every time I need to execute any action in command mode which is quite inconvenient. For example I have ш Russian symbol along with i on the same button on my keyboard. It would be very nice if while in command mode ш would actually map to i. The same story with other keys. Thus I won't have to switch to ascii in command mode. If you internal encoding is 8-bit one (eg cp1251), then set langmap=very_long_list_of_letter_pairs works fine. Unfortunately this doesn't fork if internal encoding is utf-8. In later case, set keymap=russian-jcukenwin works fine. The later has a minor disadvantage -- you need vim-specific keyboard switch instead of standard WIndows one, but after a shot time you will get used of this, and it is really handy. -- Cyril Slobin [EMAIL PROTECTED] `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, http://45.free.net/~slobin `it means just what I choose it to mean'
Re: how to avoid deleting the auto-indent in a new empty line when i press Esc
On 2007-04-16, sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea of the comment shown above was to leave something to remind you that you had to come back later, since, as you said, you want to leave the indent there for future use; also, the comment would be sure to stay in place even if the bare indent didn't. But if just adding, let's say, a period, then backspacing over it, makes the indent remain, then you don't have to type a lengthy comment unless you need it. You may even try (untested) :inoremap CRCR.BS Note: Next time, please use Reply to all rather than Reply to sender, unless you're straying off-topic. Best regards, Tony. Do I need always type a char then BS? Is there a better solution? I wander whether the vim option can do this automatically. A better solution to what problem? If vim automatically indents properly when you add a new line, what difference does it make whether it leaves leading spaces in that line you left or not? If you want to leave a blank line and add properly indented text to it later, you can resume editing that line by typing S which should automatically move your cursor to the proper indentation. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mobile Broadband Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: let loaded_matchparen = 1
On 2007-04-15, fREW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre Majorel wrote: Are there any plans to make the highlight-the-matching-thing feature disabled by default in a future release of Vim ? AFAIK, there isn't; for one thing, it would break all the vimrc's which rely on its being set by default (and therefore don't force-set it). As your Subject line shows, you know how to remove that feature. Personally I like this feature, but I do get lost every now and then and forget which one is my cursor. Is there any way that I can say, make the cursor have a red background and make the matched paren (or whatever) have a blue background? And is there a way to do this that won't break if the background is already red/blue? I had this same problem, so I added this line to my color scheme. It may be sufficient to just put something like this in your .vimrc. highlight MatchParen ctermbg=4 HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Mobile Broadband Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
