Project specific settings
Hi All, I know this has been covered before, but I can't seem to find it by searching Vim tips, so please excuse me if this has been ask many times before. I always uses spaces to indent my code, but a current project requires me to use tabs. How could I make this setting only be in effect for this one project, assuming that the project will always be a in a specific directory. Thanks Marius
Why does VimResized get triggered 4 times per resize
Hi everybody, Can somebody explain the following behaviour to me. In my .vimrc I put the following: --START -- function ResizeEvent() let lines = lines - 1 execute '!echo resizing '.lines . ' test.txt' endfunction autocmd VimResized * call ResizeEvent() END --- Now for every resize event, I get 4 lines in test.txt. The result is that I end up with 'lines' being decreased 4 times, instead of just once. Thanks Marius
Only half a command line in GVim
Hi everybody, I have been using GVim on X11 for years. Recently I have changed my window manager to Compiz. Now, all (and I have many) sessions I have created before the switch, shows only half the command line when I load them. For instance when I type :q, I see only one . of the : and the top half of the q. New files and sessions seem to be ok. One way to solve this, would be to delete all saved session, and recreate them, but I was wondering if somebody didn't know of an easier way to fix this. Thanks Marius
Re: Getting out of netrw
On 11/3/06, Jean-Rene David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought of using :q but that closes vim if only one window is open. Am I missing something obvious? I use :Sexplore (or :Vexplore) to open the explorer. Then it's not a problem using :q. Or if you really want to be fancy, put this in your .vimrc: function MyExplore() tabnew Explore nmap buffer leaderq :qcr endfunction nmap F2 :call MyExplore()cr Then F2 opens explorer in a new tab, and leaderq closes the tab, and you should be back where you were before pressing F2. Marius
Re: active links for opening files
On 10/30/06, Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/06, Michael M. Tung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: I am working on a simple plugin and want to make vim open a file which appears in text e.g. as [/tmp/test.txt] by clicking on it. The path and filename always appears in brackets. You can do this by mapping MouseDown and MouseUp pseudo-keys: nmap MouseDown . nmap MouseUp .. Yakov Or rather LeftMouseRelease etc.
Re: BUG: mksession saves lcd in incorrect place
On 10/24/06, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the problem. I'll fix it. Thanks Bram!
Re: BUG: mksession saves lcd in incorrect place
On 10/24/06, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see the problem. I'll fix it. This works correctly now after applying patch 7.0.147. Thanks again Bram. Marius
Re: Quickfix behaviour
On 10/20/06, Yegappan Lakshmanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The above problem with the quickfix window and the 'switchbuf' option set to 'usetab' is now fixed by patch 7.0.146. - Yegappan This works perfectly now. Thanks a million. Marius
BUG: mksession saves lcd in incorrect place
Hi everybody, I believe I have found a bug in Vim 7.0.146, relating to mksession and lcd. Here is a small example. 1) Open Vim 2) :e file1.txt 3) :tabe temp/file2.txt Any different directory 4) :lcd %:h 5) :mks test.vim 6) Close vim 7) Open vim 8) :source test.vim 9) The second tab is empty. The reason is that in the file test.vim the order of events are (ignoring the uninteresting stuff): - cd where-ever-file1-is - edit file1.txt - tabnew - edit file2.txt - lcd where-ever-file2-is/ So even the second tab contains the correct lcd, the files opened in the wrong directory. To manually fix the problem in the test.vim file: /^lcd/ dd /^edit file2/ P :wq Alternatively, the full path should be used to open file2.txt Regards Marius
Re: Quickfix behaviour
On 10/20/06, Yegappan Lakshmanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The above problem with the quickfix window and the 'switchbuf' option set to 'usetab' is now fixed by patch 7.0.146. - Yegappan Thanks, I will check it out. Marius
Quickfix behaviour
Hi everybody, In a quickfix window, selecting an error (pressing enter) takes you to that error. The way it does this is by opening the file in the window above the quickfix window (if it is not open already, in which case it jumps to the open buffer, assuming the buffer is in the same tabpage). There are 2 problems I have with this situation. I can think of solutions to them using a ftplugin and remapping enter, but I thought maybe somebody had solved them already. 1) I would like to open a new window/tab, rather than use the one above the quickfix window. 2) If the buffer is already open in another tab page, I'd like to jump there, instead of opening it in this tab again. Hope this is understandable. Regards Marius
Re: Quickfix behaviour
On 10/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I would like to open a new window/tab, rather than use the one above the quickfix window. :h 'switchbuf' - split 2) If the buffer is already open in another tab page, I'd like to jump there, instead of opening it in this tab again. :h 'switchbuf' - useopen, usetab Thanks, it works great with one exception. When the quickfix is the only window in the tab (i.e. :tab copen), then it does not respect usetab (it opens a new split). If I do a :new to have a empty open window above the quickfix window, and then jump to an error, it works perfectly. Strange. Thanks Marius
Re: Question about listchars
On 10/19/06, Jeff Lanzarotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have the following in my vimrc, This shows spaces and tabs characters. Visual Whitespace. set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· set list That all work well and good, but I would like to disable this display of visual white space temporarily, do something, and then reset it back to what I had. Is there a way to do this? Peace, How about this in your .vimrc nmap F5 :set invlistcr imap F5 esc:set invlistcra and then F5 would toggle list on and off. HTH Marius
Using output of Vim commands in scripts
Hi everybody, Is it possible to use the output of Vim commands in a script? My specific problem currently is that I would like to use the output of :tabs in a script. I cannot find a Vim function that does the same as this command. Any ideas? Thanks Marius
Strange behaviour of C-X and C-A
Hi everybody, I'm using Vim 7.0.94 on Linux. I use C-A and C-X from time to time to increment/decrement numbers. However when there is a leading zero I get very strange behaviour with both. Example: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 :nmap F7 C-Xj I position the cursor on 01 and press F7, this works fine up to 08. For 08, 09 and 10, the leading zero dissapears. :nmap F7 C-Aj Use the same unmodified list. This is even weirder. 07 becomes 010, 08 becomes 9, and the rest seems ok. Do others see the same behaviour. What am I missing? Thanks Marius
Re: Strange behaviour of C-X and C-A
On 10/11/06, Peter Palm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Op woensdag 11 oktober 2006 11:46, schreef Marius Roets: set nrformats-=octal Yep, this did it. Thanks!! Marius
Uppercase keywords
Hi Vimmers, I have a big a (3000+ lines) source code file. The syntax highlighting works perfectly, so all keywords are highlighted correctly. Is there any way that I can use this fact to convert all keywords to uppercase, or do I have to do them all one by one? Thanks Marius
Turning abbreviations on and off
Hi everybody, I have a in my plsql.vim filetype plugin a lot of abbreviations to the effect of : iabbrev buffer then THEN iabbrev buffer else ELSE ... etc. The idea is that some companies' coding standards expect me to use capitalized keywords. Personally I hate capitalized keywords (it reminds me of BASIC programming). So I was wondering if there was a way where I could turn a set of abbreviations on and off, on the fly, without reloading the buffer. Thanks Marius
cpp ftplugins not loaded
Hi everybody, I have a quick question regarding ftplugins. I created a directory in my after/ftplugin directory for each filetype, with several plugins in each. Up to now I had a directory called c, which served to hold plugins for both c and c++ files, and this worked well. However I decided to split the c++ plugins, and created a new directory called cpp. When I edit c++ files, the filetype is correctly detected (cpp), but still only the plugins in c directory are loaded. Those in the cpp directory are ignored. Summary: ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c/* - Are loaded for both c and c++ files ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp/* - Ignored, even for cpp files I'm probably missing something simple here, so any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks Marius
Re: cpp ftplugins not loaded
Hi Yakov, On Sunday 10 September 2006 12:27, Yakov Lerner wrote: I created file ~/bat/my.dir.vim/after/ftplugin/c/xxx.vim containing line call input(This is after/ftplugin/c/xxx.vim) and file ~/bat/my.dir.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp/cpp_xyz.vim containing line call input(This is after/ftplugin/cpp/cpp_xyz.vim) When I do 'set ft=cpp', both files are loaded. When I do 'set ft=c', only 1st file is loaded. So my vim7 behaves as expected. Mine is vim7.0.86 I suggest that you insert 'call input()' with distinct prompt into your ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp/* to distinguish between case (1) whether those files are not loaded vs (2) files are loaded but do not take effect. Additionally you can use :scriptnames to see whether scripts are loaded. Which vim version is yours. 7.0.94 I followed your advice and great was my surprise to see that it works as expected. I've been trying in vain to recreate the situation where it didn't work. Somewhere I must have done something wrong, and corrected it in the meantime, but I'll be darned if I know what:) I think I will have to write this one off to too many late nights. Apologies for the unnecessary post. Marius
Re: cpp ftplugins not loaded
Hi Tony, On Sunday 10 September 2006 12:51, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: AFAIK both sets should be loaded. See: - BufRead and BufNewFile autocommands for the concerned file extension (*.c, *.cpp, *.c++, etc.) - FileType autocommand - function s:LoadFTPlugin in $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin.vim - c ftplugins are invoked by $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/cpp.vim (snip) If the plugins in the three last lines of the list above aren't sourced it might conceivably be a bug in the code for the runtime[!] command (e.g. storing the arguments in static storage instead of on the stack) but I doubt it. Thanks for the advice, but it seems to working now. See my post to Yakov. Still don't know what I did wrong. Sorry :) Marius
Re: Can I make my sesion forget it's a session
On 8/30/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A session is not only a number of settings, it's also one or more editfiles etc. To make a session forget all that makes it a session, use :qa followed by vim or gvim (the latter may be entered in an Alt-F2 popup). Once you are satisfied that you have what you want, use the :mksession command (q.v.). Or, if you have a GNOME build of gvim, you can log out of the (kde or GNOME) window manager and let gvim save its session transparently. See :help :mksession :help :mkview :help -o :help -S :help gnome-session If the above (starting a new session afresh) is too drastic for you, you may _first_ use :mksession, then edit the session file (e.g. by removing the settings you don't want anymore) and finally :qa and gvim -S Best regards, Tony. Hi Tony, Thank for your suggestions. These were the sort of solutions I had in mind, I was just hoping there might be something simpler. It just means, for each session I have to reopen every window the way it was, and then save the session again, which is what I was trying to avoid. But if there is no other way. Thanks Marius
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
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
Re: Creating a syntax file with folding
On 8/15/06, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: syn clear syn region xBlock transparent fold matchgroup=Delimiter start=begin end=end contains=xBlock Regards, Chip Campbell I do believe you are a genius. Thanks. Marius
Re: gP-confusion
On 8/16/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
finally I found (nearly) what I am searching for...but...
I wanted a command which after doing a y$ from in the midth of a
line, puts my yanked text after the end of the line and the cursor
right after the put text.
The help of gP states (my im is nocompatible):
[x]gP Just like P, but leave the cursor just after the new
text. {not in Vi}
But it seems I understand the help wrongly. Example:
This is a very boring example of a line.
x
(x=position of the cursor)
I do a y$gP and the line looks like:
This is a very boring example of a line.a very boring example of a line.
x
The help says:
...but leave the cursor just after the *new*
text.
Hi,
Using your example of a boring line I got:
This is a very boring example of a line.
x
Doing y$P I get :
This is a very boring example of a line.s a very boring example of a line.
x
and y$gP I get :
This is a very boring example of a line.s a very boring example of a line.
x
This might be case of the help being slightly ambiguous. I think what
it means is, after the new text *starts*, and not at the end of the
new text. If you see no need for the gP function, you could do
:nmap gP gP$
which would give you the behaviour you expected.
HTH
Marius
Re: gP-confusion
On 8/16/06, Marius Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/16/06, Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
finally I found (nearly) what I am searching for...but...
I wanted a command which after doing a y$ from in the midth of a
line, puts my yanked text after the end of the line and the cursor
right after the put text.
The help of gP states (my im is nocompatible):
[x]gP Just like P, but leave the cursor just after the new
text. {not in Vi}
But it seems I understand the help wrongly. Example:
This is a very boring example of a line.
x
(x=position of the cursor)
I do a y$gP and the line looks like:
This is a very boring example of a line.a very boring example of a line.
x
The help says:
...but leave the cursor just after the *new*
text.
Hi,
Using your example of a boring line I got:
This is a very boring example of a line.
x
Doing y$P I get :
This is a very boring example of a line.s a very boring example of a line.
x
and y$gP I get :
This is a very boring example of a line.s a very boring example of a line.
x
This might be case of the help being slightly ambiguous. I think what
it means is, after the new text *starts*, and not at the end of the
new text. If you see no need for the gP function, you could do
:nmap gP gP$
which would give you the behaviour you expected.
HTH
Marius
My first line should be:
This is a very boring example of a line.
x
to get the results I described. Strange fonts in gmail, sorry.
Marius
Re: gP-confusion
On 8/16/06, Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gp puts after the cursor, gP puts before the cursor. When you want to paste at the front of the line, you want gP, like 0gP. When you want to paste at the end of the line, you'll want to use $gp. So your command for yanking till end of line and appending at end of line will be: y$$gp *not* y$$gP. y$$gP would insert at the wrong place, 1 character before end of line. Yakov Of course, you're right. Ignore my message, I got confused:) Marius
Creating a syntax file with folding
Hi everybody, I am trying to create a syntax file with folding. However after pouring over the documentation for hours, I seem to be stuck. I want to, for instance, fold a begin/end block. I have created a simple syntax file with just this line: syntax region xBlock start=begin end=end transparent contains=xBlock,xKeyword fold As expected, this works well. However 'begin' and 'end' are keywords. So I add: syntax keyword xKeyword begin This breaks the fold. It no longer sees the begin. I changed it to syntax match xKeyword \begin\ And now it works again. Now for 'end'. I know that defining it as a keyword is problematic, so I do a match again. syntax match xKeyword \end\ This breaks the fold again however. Even though every 'begin' starts a new fold, 'end' doesn't end them. I tried adding keepend to the region, but then the first 'end' ends all folds. There must be something that I am not understanding. Any help would be appreciated. I have included a file I have used to test. Thanks Marius # Test file # function myFunction begin some code; command; and ; other stuff; begin a new block; end; and some; more stuff; end;
