RE: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete
-Original Message- From: Linsong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:58 AM To: Jared Parsons Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete Jared Parsons wrote: Is there any way to make omni complete popup a list of suggestions but not immediately add one of them to the buffer? I find omni complete very useful but it's incredibly annoying that it auto-chooses one of the entries. I'd prefer it popup the list of suggestions but not modify the buffer. If I understand your question correctly, I think what you need is: :set completeopt=menu,preview,longest With these options it still inserts a match into the buffer. I don't want omni complete to insert anything. I just want it to popup a list of possible matches. Jared
Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete
Is there any way to make omni complete popup a list of suggestions but not immediately add one of them to the buffer? I find omni complete very useful but it's incredibly annoying that it auto-chooses one of the entries. I'd prefer it popup the list of suggestions but not modify the buffer. -- Jared
RE: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete
I'm both working on a new plugin (C#) and using a couple of existing ones. I tried the hack of returning the original text as well. It works if you are using omni complete on demand. However I would like to add automatic omni complete after certain characters such as '.'. In that case you can't insert the existing text (there isn't any) and if you try and return '' as one of the valid words omni complete will just ignore it. Jared -Original Message- From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:34 PM To: Jared Parsons Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 at 11:46am, Jared Parsons wrote: Is there any way to make omni complete popup a list of suggestions but not immediately add one of them to the buffer? I find omni complete very useful but it's incredibly annoying that it auto-chooses one of the entries. I'd prefer it popup the list of suggestions but not modify the buffer. You can workaround this by always returning the original text also as the first match. If you are writing a plugin, then it is easy for you to do this, but if you are using an existing plugin, you might have to wrap the original function and add the original text before returning it. The omni completion plugins should probably make this a standard setting. -- HTH, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete
-Original Message- From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:54 PM To: Jared Parsons Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: RE: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 at 2:23pm, Jared Parsons wrote: I'm both working on a new plugin (C#) and using a couple of existing ones. I tried the hack of returning the original text as well. It works if you are using omni complete on demand. However I would like to add automatic omni complete after certain characters such as '.'. In that case you can't insert the existing text (there isn't any) and if you try and return '' as one of the valid words omni complete will just ignore it. Jared Yep, I saw that problem as well. As I mentioned in one of my other threads, I am trying to do automatic completion after every character using CursorMovedI event, and observe this issue sometimes, even when I always have some text to return. If you are triggering completion on say '.', see if you can automatically rollback the completion by also doing a C-P. However you might not find a hook to invoke C-P As a workaround, how about marking the start of completion as including the . character, and include . also as the first result? This will not work on the first column in the line, but I bet you will not face that problem. That's a good solution. The drop down will look a bit funny but it should solve the immediate issue. Is there a fix planned for this in the future. Some option I can specify to prevent auto-insertion of a match? -- Jared -- HTH, Hari -Original Message- From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 12:34 PM To: Jared Parsons Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Making Omni Complete suggest but not complete On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 at 11:46am, Jared Parsons wrote: Is there any way to make omni complete popup a list of suggestions but not immediately add one of them to the buffer? I find omni complete very useful but it's incredibly annoying that it auto-chooses one of the entries. I'd prefer it popup the list of suggestions but not modify the buffer. You can workaround this by always returning the original text also as the first match. If you are writing a plugin, then it is easy for you to do this, but if you are using an existing plugin, you might have to wrap the original function and add the original text before returning it. The omni completion plugins should probably make this a standard setting. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: matchparen bug?
On 06/08/2006 04:14, Mathias Michaelis wrote: Bram has fixed this bug already a month ago ;-) See: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43639 Sigh. Good news, but I wish we knew this 13 e-mails ago. :-) Thanks to everyone that looked into this. -- Jared
Re: matchparen bug?
On 06/06/2006 23:47, Benji Fisher wrote: I am stumped. I tried it with $ vim -u NONE :set nocp :runtime plugin/matchparen.vim and I still get the cursor on the o in the third line. Benji, Ilya, I appreciate both of you taking the time to investigate. I'm a little puzzled why Benji and I are seeing this issue, but Ilya is not. Can anyone else either confirm or refute this? Is it perhaps a Windows-specific bug? I only currently have access to Vim 7 on a Windows system, so I'm unable to test it under Linux. -- Jared Breland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.legroom.net/
matchparen bug?
I think I found a bug in in the matchparen feature of Vim 7. I'm using the 7.0 binary release for Windows XP. When I'm in Insert mode and moving across lines, if the cursor passes over a paren (defined here as any character in the matchpairs option), the cursor will stay in the column position when moving to the next line. See the following code for an example: let g:loaded_autoit_completion = 1 let s:cache_name = [] This function is used for the 'omnifunc' option. Now, if my cursor is on the '1' in the first line and I press down twice, I'd expect the cursor to end up on the 'o' in 'omnifunc' in the third line. However, if I'm in Insert mode and matchparen is active, then my cursor will instead end up on the 'e' in 'used'. If I'm in Normal mode, this does not happen. If I issue :NoMatchParen, this does not happen. However, if I reissue :DoMatchParen and enter Insert mode, the problem reoccurs. Can anyone else confirm this? I do have a lot of customizations in my vimrc files, so I'm not entirely sure it's not a problem that I'm causing myself, but I've reviewed my vimrc pretty carefully and I can't find anything that should cause this issue. If anyone else would like to check, you can find both vimrc files here: http://www.legroom.net/~jbreland/transfer/Packages/Vim_7.0/support/_vimrc http://www.legroom.net/~jbreland/transfer/Packages/Vim_7.0/support/_gvimrc Please let me know if this is an actual Vim bug. Thanks. -- Jared
sftp file browsing
Is it possible to browse a remote folder through FTP? Eg, if I enter ':e .' it'll display the directory browser for the current directory. How can I do the same for remote directories? I can run ':e sftp://sage/nessus_conf/nessusd.conf' to edit a particular file, but if I don't know the exact filename I'd like to be able to run something like ':e sftp://sage/nessus_conf/' to get a directory listing. Thanks. -- Jared
Re: sftp file browsing
On 05/30/2006 13:00, Thor Andreassen wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:19:11AM -0500, Jared wrote: Is it possible to browse a remote folder through FTP? Eg, if I enter ':e .' it'll display the directory browser for the current directory. How can I do the same for remote directories? This already works with newer versions of the netrw plugin. An upgrade would probably solve this issue for you. hmm... I just realized that I was trying this on 6.3. The only copy of Vim 7 I have available is on my Windows box, but of course there is no sftp command. I do have pftp from PuTTY, however. I can I change the command that netrw uses? I see from the docs that it's saved in the g:netrw_sftp_cmd variable, but I can't figure out how to change it. Thanks. -- Jared
Re: right-to-left text selection
On 5/20/2006 7:21 PM, Gerald Lai wrote: Hi, Gerald. Thanks for the reply. This is a pretty creative suggestion, but I can't get it to work quite right. I tried adding this to my .vimrc: nnoremap 2-LeftMouse viwoC-g vnoremap 2-LeftDrag LeftDrag Yes, Vim should recognize the 2-LeftDrag event. I verified your problem and found out what happened :) Stripping down my mappings led me to the solution. Add this extra mapping: nnoremap LeftRelease Nop That did it! Thanks again for the help, Gerald. With this I'm finally able to mark the last thing of my vimrc todo list. :-) -- Jared
Re: right-to-left text selection
On 5/17/2006 11:11 PM, Eric Arnold wrote: While the visual mode selection is active, hitting o moves to the opposite corner. SNIP Keep in mind that it doesn't work the same with a selection made by the mouse, since that leaves it in select mode not visual mode, which has some properties like insert mode, but in general has to be treated differently. Use ^G to switch visual/select modes. Ok, this was the problem. I was using select mode rather than visual mode, and it was behaving exactly as you described. If I select the text, then hit ^gol^c, I can finally select all text, including the last character. Yay! Not exactly the easiest key sequence, but at least I can make it work now. Thanks, Eric! -- Jared
using variables in ! command
This should be really easy, but I can't find an example in the help that shows what I'm trying to do. I'm mapping an external command to a function key, but I can't figure out how to include a variable in the command. Specifically, I want to specify the %programfiles% directory. So far I've tried: 1) map F2 :silent ! start $PROGRAMFILES\Inno Setup\ISetup.hlp 2) map F2 :silent ! start %PROGRAMFILES%\Inno Setup\ISetup.hlp 3) let isshelp = $PROGRAMFILES.\\Inno Setup\\ISetup.hlp map F2 :silent ! start isshelp However, they all fail: 1) :echo $PROGRAMFILES displays the correct page, but the above command simply tries to run $PROGRAMFILES as a literal string 2) Each % expands to the source filename rather than being recognized as an environmental variable 3) isshelp contains the correct string, but it's output literally rather than treated as a variable Like I said, I know this is a pitiful problem, but I'm running out of ideas. What am I doing wrong? -- Jared
ctrl+shift key mappings
Ok, this will be my last question for the night (promise!). I'd like to map separate commands to Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Shift-C. I've tried a couple different ways to do it, but this one seems like it should be most correct: vnoremap C-c +y vnoremap C-S-c ^Gol+y What's happening, though, is that the C-S-c map overwrites the C-c map. If I were to place C-c below C-S-c in .vimrc, the it'd be the other way around. So, two questions: 1) Am I defining the C-S-c mapping correctly? I believe that's how it's done, but I couldn't find a specific example in the docs. 2) How do I make Vim distinguish between the two commands? Actually, I also have a 3rd, pseudo-related question: How do I include a control key sequence in a map? I'm using ^G in the above example, but that seems to be completely ignored when I hit C-S-c. I also tried C-g, but that's also ignored. Thanks once again. Believe me when I say that I'm most appreciative of the help that's constantly offered on this mailing list. -- Jared
Re: using variables in ! command
On 5/18/2006 12:08 AM, Yakov Lerner wrote: Try map F2 :exe :silent! start .isshelp cr Thanks for the reply, Yakov. However, that gives me an error message: E121: Undefined variable: isshelp E15: Invalid expression:silent! start .isshelp Any other ideas? -- Jared
Re: using variables in ! command
On 5/18/2006 12:31 AM, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: :exe 'silent ! start ' . $PROGRAMFILES . '\Inno Setup\Isetup.hlp' That did it! Thanks a bunch, Tony. -- Jared
Re: sourcing vimrc files
On 5/14/2006 8:41 PM, Gerald Lai wrote: Encase your function like this: if !exists(*Source_vimrc) function Source_vimrc() ... endfunction endif Thanks, Gerald. This worked perfectly. Also, thanks to everyone else for their suggestions. I appreciate the feedback and read up on the suggested commands, but this ended up being the easiest. :-) -- Jared
right-to-left text selection
Ok, I have a really weird questions this time. I use the selection=exclusive option, because I don't like Vim to select the hidden newline character at the end of lines when I'm copying or deleting an entire line. However, this has one side effect that I have not been able to figure out. If I try to select a line of text from the right to the left, it is impossible to select the last character of the line. Of course, one solution would be to set selection=inclusive, but then the newline character at the end of the line is always selected when selecting text from left to right. I know that sounds pretty trivial, but it's a major nuisance for my editing style. So, my question: is it somehow possible to be able to select the last character of a line when selecting from right-to-left while using selection=exclusive? Alternatively, is there some way to make Vim NOT select the newline character at the end of the line when selecting text from left-to-right while using selection=inclusive? At this point I've tried quite a few options and I'm thinking it's not, but I'd certainly like to hear from the pros if they have any suggestions. Does this even make sense? Given how many times I used the word select, probably not. :-) Please let me know if this comes across as gibberish and I'll try to better explain myself. Thanks! -- Jared
Re: echo question
On 5/14/2006 1:37 AM, Gerald Lai wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2006, Yakov Lerner wrote: Try 2 things (1) add :redraw before the :echo in question (2) if that doesn't help, make message shorter. I noticed that if message is longer than screen width-15, it cases the prompt. You could also readjust the height of the command-line dynamically: let msg = str let len = strlen(substitute(msg, ., x, g)) let t_ch = cmdheight let cmdheight = len / (columns - 15) + 1 echo msg let cmdheight = t_ch See :help 'cmdheight' :help strlen(). I tried adding :redraw, but that didn't seem to work. As for making the message shorter or the changing the height, I don't think those are applicable. The line is not longer than the window width. In fact, this is the function: function Toggle_spell() if spell exec set nospell else exec set spell echo ]s to skip to word, zg to add word, z= to suggest word endif endfunction nmap C-s :call Toggle_spell()CR I just want to display a message in the status reminding me of the commands when I enable the spell checker. Any other ideas? Thanks. -- Jared
Re: scrolling in vim7 on winxp?
when you say scrolling, do you mean with a mouse wheel? Or moving dragging the scroll bar? Or something else? I tried to duplicate this behavior, but was unable to do so. Vim's working fine on my copy of Windows XP. This is the stock version, though. -- Jared Breland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.legroom.net/ On 5/13/2006 12:35 PM, oystercatcher wrote: I am running vim 7 on winxp compiled with mingw 7.0223 I have noticed that when I am scrolling through text (postscript source) that I lose focus on the vim window. I thought at first that I was simple bumping another key or the mouse. Then I thought that maybe some running application was somehow taking focus to another window. Since I am not sure of the cause and will continue to monitor what might be happening, I thought I would just ask the list if anyone might have noticed the same problem? Thanks
Re: echo question
On 5/14/2006 8:44 AM, Yukihiro Nakadaira wrote: I think that your 'cmdheight' is 1 and 'showcmd' or 'ruler' is on and perhaps 'laststatus' is 0 or 1. How about this let ru_save = ruler let sc_save = showcmd set noruler noshowcmd echo ]s to skip to word, zg to add word, z= to suggest word let showcmd = sc_save let ruler = ru_save I think it was the ruler option that was causing the problem. I still can't figure out why echo would behave differently depending on whether it's called interactively or as part of a function, but by adding the three ruler lines you suggested above I was able to make it work correctly. Thanks! -- Jared
sourcing vimrc files
I'd like to map a hotkey to re-source my vimrc files (system + user). I originally tried this simple approach: nmap buffer S-F9 :source $VIM\vimrcCR \ :source $VIM\_vimrcCR \ :source $HOME\_vimrcCR But that failed because source aborts when the file doesn't exist. I then modified it to a function call, like so: function! Source_vimrc() if filereadable($VIM.'\vimrc') source $VIM\vimrc endif if filereadable($VIM.'\_vimrc') echo test1 source $VIM\_vimrc echo test2 endif if filereadable($HOME.'\_vimrc') source $HOME\_vimrc endif endfunction nmap buffer S-F9 :call Source_vimrc()CR Longer and more complicated, but now I can check to see if the file exists before sourcing it. However, this also causes a problem: when I try to source the file containing this function, it gives me an error saying that it cannot replace the function because it is currently in use. If I remove the !, it still gives me an error because it already exists. Any ideas how to work around this? Or if you have a different/better way of doing this, I'm certainly open to suggestions. :-) This is on Windows XP. Thanks. -- Jared
echo question
I have a simple question that I can't seem to figure out. When I use the echo command to echo a statement on my open window, it simply displays that message in the status bar. However, if I use echo in a function, it adds Please ENTER or type command to continue after it. How do I make it not do that? Eg, I just want it to display the message, not prompt me to press a key. Thanks. -- Jared
get Vim option value?
I use a function called Toggle_num() in my .vimrc that toggles line numbers on/off, and in the process also resizes the Vim window so that the number of usable columns in the document stays remains constant. In Vim 7.0, this was hardcoded to 8, so I just hardcoded the value in the function. Now, I can limit the line number column with using the numberwidth option. I'd like to update this function to grow/shrink the columns by numberwidth instead of leaving it hardcoded to 8. Problem is, I can't figure out how to get the value of numberwidth within the script. How exactly do I do this? Thanks. -- Jared
set highlight color?
How do I change the background color used for cursorline in Vim 7.0? I'd like to make it a few shades darker. It looks like it can be set with hl-CursorLine, but I can't figure out how to actually do it. I currently use the following setting in .gvimrc to set the color scheme: highlight Normal guifg=white guibg=black Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Jared
Re: set highlight color?
Thanks, Gerald. This worked perfectly. I didn't realize that I had to apply the highlight setting directly to CursorLine. I was trying to group it under Normal. Oops. :-) -- Jared On 5/12/2006 2:44 PM, Gerald Lai wrote: Just like you did with Normal, you can do with CursorLine. For example: :highlight CursorLine guibg=Grey20 To see what it's current set to: :hi CursorLine HTH. -- Gerald
