Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-21 Thread vim

Gary Johnson wrote:

I don't think that's true. Vim :help comprises two manuals:

Vim User Manual - :help user-manual
Vim Reference Manual - :help reference

This is even discussed in :help 01.1. The User Manual is written
in a different style than the Reference Manual and is more readable.
I believe the User Manual is intended to be the intermediate-level
guide you're looking for.

Regards,
Gary

Well, I said that's basically it, I didn't really want to go through 
the details of :help and analyse what's missing in it because I don't 
think there is anything missing in it.


I'm more talking about a tutorial that will take you by the hand and 
bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way to quote 
myself.  I believe that an official well-written tutorial that goes nice 
and easy with lengthy descriptions and good examples is missing.  
Something to turn people from novices to Vim addict.


I'm always surprised that not every single coder doesn't use Vim on an 
everyday basis.  Especially when I can say that since I've made the 
effort to learn the 'basics' of the software, I code two to three times 
faster, even tho I believe I don't use more than 20% of Vim.


I've also had a look at the FAQ as suggested by belgian compatriot Tony 
and I think that it could be the perfect start for a good tutorial.  Yet 
the tutorial needs to be adressed to novices with the objective to get 
them hooked asap :)


I'll be in touch with the FAQ team and see if it is possible to start 
such a project.


Laurent


RE: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-21 Thread Java Bob


Gary Johnson wrote:
 I don't think that's true. Vim :help comprises two manuals:

 Vim User Manual - :help user-manual
 Vim Reference Manual - :help reference

 This is even discussed in :help 01.1. The User Manual is written
 in a different style than the Reference Manual and is more readable.
 I believe the User Manual is intended to be the intermediate-level
 guide you're looking for.

 Regards,
 Gary

Well, I said that's basically it, I didn't really want to go through 
the details of :help and analyse what's missing in it because I don't 
think there is anything missing in it.

I'm more talking about a tutorial that will take you by the hand and 
bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way to quote 
myself.  I believe that an official well-written tutorial that goes nice 
and easy with lengthy descriptions and good examples is missing.  
Something to turn people from novices to Vim addict.

I'm always surprised that not every single coder doesn't use Vim on an 
everyday basis.  Especially when I can say that since I've made the 
effort to learn the 'basics' of the software, I code two to three times 
faster, even tho I believe I don't use more than 20% of Vim.

I've also had a look at the FAQ as suggested by belgian compatriot Tony 
and I think that it could be the perfect start for a good tutorial.  Yet 
the tutorial needs to be adressed to novices with the objective to get 
them hooked asap :)

I'll be in touch with the FAQ team and see if it is possible to start 
such a project.

Laurent


I agree, thats why I am reading 60 emails a day from the Vim list.

Robert



Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-21 Thread Hal

On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Java Bob wrote:




Gary Johnson wrote:

I don't think that's true. Vim :help comprises two manuals:

Vim User Manual - :help user-manual
Vim Reference Manual - :help reference

This is even discussed in :help 01.1. The User Manual is written
in a different style than the Reference Manual and is more readable.
I believe the User Manual is intended to be the intermediate-level
guide you're looking for.

Regards,
Gary


Well, I said that's basically it, I didn't really want to go through
the details of :help and analyse what's missing in it because I don't
think there is anything missing in it.

I'm more talking about a tutorial that will take you by the hand and
bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way to quote
myself.  I believe that an official well-written tutorial that goes  
nice

and easy with lengthy descriptions and good examples is missing.
Something to turn people from novices to Vim addict.

I'm always surprised that not every single coder doesn't use Vim on an
everyday basis.  Especially when I can say that since I've made the
effort to learn the 'basics' of the software, I code two to three  
times

faster, even tho I believe I don't use more than 20% of Vim.

I've also had a look at the FAQ as suggested by belgian compatriot  
Tony
and I think that it could be the perfect start for a good  
tutorial.  Yet

the tutorial needs to be adressed to novices with the objective to get
them hooked asap :)

I'll be in touch with the FAQ team and see if it is possible to start
such a project.

Laurent


I agree, thats why I am reading 60 emails a day from the Vim list.

Robert

I'm an long time computer user but a relatively new user of Vim.  At  
this point, I think I'm 'hooked', but I am somewhat troubled by how  
difficult it is to appreciate what Vim offers.  About five years ago,  
I tried Vim and gave up, couldn't see the benefit and it sure seemed  
confusing with many options and settings.  All detail; no structure  
was my reaction, and I didn't then have the time to invest in it.   
When I tried it this time I had the same initial reaction, but  
persevered and started to see some of the neat, efficient things it  
can do.


What seems to me to be lacking is a fairly 'simple' set of concepts  
or examples that would have helped me understand what Vim offers.   
Not so simple that Vim appears to be 'just an other text editor' and  
not so complex or long that it seems like an overwhelming bucket of  
keystrokes.  Given the flexibility of Vim, a longish document would  
be needed to describes its many features with examples, but that may  
not be the answer.  If we want to make Vim enticing, I think brevity  
would  be a virtue.  Since a good sense of who the audience for a  
document is always important, possibly a series of shorter pieces  
focused on various activities: c coding, xml coding, scripting,  
network connections, etc.  The list of titles/section headings in  
itself could give an idea of the scope and flexibility Vim provides.   
The current FAQ material might provide a good starting point, and it  
might be worth considering different packaging; for instance in a  
wiki format.


Just my 2 cents worth.

Hal



Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-20 Thread A.J.Mechelynck

vim wrote:

Hi everobody,

I recently had a very similar conversation with three guys on #vim 
(irc.freenode.net).


Basicaly, there is two official help for Vim:
   - the vimtutor
   - :help

And that's basically it.

:help being your Vim dictionnary/encyclopedia/bible, it's very complete 
and has everything in it but it's hardcore to read and understand.  
Unfortunately, it's not easy at all to go through and to 'get' the way 
it works.


I believe that there is room between vimtutor and :help to have some 
beginner to intermediate tutorial that will take you by the hand and 
bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way.  Let's not 
forget (especially for the Vim gurus out there) that Vim is very 
powerful but because of that it can be very hard to understand sometimes 
or even to adapt to it and make it your favourite text editor.


Of course Google is your friend but the sheer ammount of tutorials out 
there can easily make you go left, right and center and basically not 
teach you anything useful but some 'tips and tricks' that is cool but 
won't make you code faster or deeply understand Vim.


So I think that there is room for some official tutorial after the 
vimtutor and before a perfect use of the ultimate :help.  The tutorial 
will totally avoid to be a scientific precision on 
how-to-exactly-define-terms-the-best-way-possible-using-the-less-words-possible.  
The tutorial should be well written and take time to explain things to 
novice in simple words.  The idea is to bring people to the Vim highway 
efficiently.  Such a basic tutorial could _also_ help novices to avoid 
asking questions that will make any Vim guru feel like saying: 'RTFM'


As an example, here are some topics proposed:

Non-technical:
- Phylosophy behind Vim
   Where you would learn why it will help you to be faster in your 
everyday coding and what the user has to understand to truely enjoy Vim 
(talk about the need to touch-type to be truely efficient for instance)

- Phylosophy behind the three modes (Normal, Visual, Insert)
- Phylosophy behind the command line mode
- Differences between Vi and Vim
- Explain the folder structure and how the various config files work
- Differences between Vim on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and console use
- Configure once, use everywhere (or how to adapt your config to a 
different platform)

- etc.

Technical:
- The big apple : Think different!
   Where you would learn that you need to think gg instead of 
'CTRL-home' or xp to invert the order of two letters etc.  This could 
have a list of standard keyboard shortcuts mapped to a list of Vim 
shortcuts.

- Basics of Vim variables (:set :let etc.)
- My first function : hello world!
- Basic understanding of filetypes
- Basic folding
- Basics of syntax highlighting
- Basic mappings  abbreviations
- etc.

Help!  I need somebody
- Phylosophy behind the :help command: how to 'think' :help
- How to use :help efficiently
- Good references to go one step further
- etc.

Of course, this is only a guide of what would be useful to a beginner 
but I firmy believe that some official tutorial is needed.  Maybe this 
could be achieved by doing a 'best off' the various tutorials already 
available.


Let me know what you think of this,
Laurent


I think that between the tutor and help, tere are also the vimFAQ and vimtips 
(both at vim-online).


You seem to have interesting ideas. Maybe you should discuss them with the FAQ 
maintainer.



Best regards,
Tony.


Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-20 Thread panshizhu
vim [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-20 15:50:36:

 Hi everobody,

 I believe that there is room between vimtutor and :help to have some
 beginner to intermediate tutorial that will take you by the hand and
 bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way.

There already is one close to your description. (Is it an official one? I
don't know.)

It's a PDF document and can be downloaded somewhere... I forget the name
but it might be Vim Tutorial...

When I've found it I'll post it again.
--
Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606

Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-20 Thread Meghdad Azriel

that would be very interesting


I´m a little lazy, I like to learn things quickly. I really found that
something is missing between the first tut and :help universe.


I also like the idea of making people discover new things and understand
why-it-works...




vim-2 wrote:
 
 Hi everobody,
 
 I recently had a very similar conversation with three guys on #vim 
 (irc.freenode.net).
 
 Basicaly, there is two official help for Vim:
 - the vimtutor
 - :help
 
 And that's basically it.
 
 :help being your Vim dictionnary/encyclopedia/bible, it's very complete 
 and has everything in it but it's hardcore to read and understand.  
 Unfortunately, it's not easy at all to go through and to 'get' the way 
 it works.
 
 I believe that there is room between vimtutor and :help to have some 
 beginner to intermediate tutorial that will take you by the hand and 
 bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way.  Let's not 
 forget (especially for the Vim gurus out there) that Vim is very 
 powerful but because of that it can be very hard to understand sometimes 
 or even to adapt to it and make it your favourite text editor.
 
 Of course Google is your friend but the sheer ammount of tutorials out 
 there can easily make you go left, right and center and basically not 
 teach you anything useful but some 'tips and tricks' that is cool but 
 won't make you code faster or deeply understand Vim.
 
 So I think that there is room for some official tutorial after the 
 vimtutor and before a perfect use of the ultimate :help.  The tutorial 
 will totally avoid to be a scientific precision on 
 how-to-exactly-define-terms-the-best-way-possible-using-the-less-words-possible.
   
 The tutorial should be well written and take time to explain things to 
 novice in simple words.  The idea is to bring people to the Vim highway 
 efficiently.  Such a basic tutorial could _also_ help novices to avoid 
 asking questions that will make any Vim guru feel like saying: 'RTFM'
 
 As an example, here are some topics proposed:
 
 Non-technical:
 - Phylosophy behind Vim
 Where you would learn why it will help you to be faster in your 
 everyday coding and what the user has to understand to truely enjoy Vim 
 (talk about the need to touch-type to be truely efficient for instance)
 - Phylosophy behind the three modes (Normal, Visual, Insert)
 - Phylosophy behind the command line mode
 - Differences between Vi and Vim
 - Explain the folder structure and how the various config files work
 - Differences between Vim on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and console use
 - Configure once, use everywhere (or how to adapt your config to a 
 different platform)
 - etc.
 
 Technical:
 - The big apple : Think different!
 Where you would learn that you need to think gg instead of 
 'CTRL-home' or xp to invert the order of two letters etc.  This could 
 have a list of standard keyboard shortcuts mapped to a list of Vim 
 shortcuts.
 - Basics of Vim variables (:set :let etc.)
 - My first function : hello world!
 - Basic understanding of filetypes
 - Basic folding
 - Basics of syntax highlighting
 - Basic mappings  abbreviations
 - etc.
 
 Help!  I need somebody
 - Phylosophy behind the :help command: how to 'think' :help
 - How to use :help efficiently
 - Good references to go one step further
 - etc.
 
 Of course, this is only a guide of what would be useful to a beginner 
 but I firmy believe that some official tutorial is needed.  Maybe this 
 could be achieved by doing a 'best off' the various tutorials already 
 available.
 
 Let me know what you think of this,
 Laurent
 
 A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
 Meghdad Azriel wrote:
 I was just kidding ;)

 I know that they are not secret but, they´re not that intuitive... 
 and i´m
 still learning how to use that help  effectivelly...


 maybe I neet to read those basic files with care...
 [...]

 To use the help effectively, one should learn to use the tools Vim 
 itself includes to search the help (see, among others, :help :help 
 and :help :helpgrep):

 :help topic

 brings you to the help for topic if there is one, otherwise to some 
 help topic resembling what you typed

 :help patternTab

 completes your command-line with the first help topic matching the 
 pattern. Hit Tab again to see the next one. Hit Ctrl-D to see them 
 all. If you have 'wildmenu' on, the bottom status line will be 
 replaced by a menu of possible matches: hit Left or Right to 
 select, Enter to accept, Esc to abort.

 :helpgrep pattern

 searches the whole help text for /pattern/. The results are used to 
 build a quickfix error list (see :help quickfix.txt). Then the 
 following commands may come useful:

 :cn[ext]
 :cp[revious] or :cN[ext]
 :cnf[ile]
 :cpf[ile] or :cNf[ile]
 :cfir[st] or :cr[ewind]
 :cla[st]

 to navigate the list, displaying the helpfiles with the cursor on a 
 match;

 :cope[n]

 to open the list of matching lines in its own split-window, where you 
 can position 

Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-20 Thread Meghdad Azriel



Meghdad Azriel wrote:
 
 that would be very interesting
 
 
 I´m a little lazy, I like to learn things quickly. I really found that
 something is missing between the first tut and :help universe.
 
 
 I actually appreciate the idea of making people discover new things and
 understand why-it-works...
 
 
 (forgive my english :P)
 
 
 
 vim-2 wrote:
 
 Hi everobody,
 
 I recently had a very similar conversation with three guys on #vim 
 (irc.freenode.net).
 
 Basicaly, there is two official help for Vim:
 - the vimtutor
 - :help
 
 And that's basically it.
 
 :help being your Vim dictionnary/encyclopedia/bible, it's very complete 
 and has everything in it but it's hardcore to read and understand.  
 Unfortunately, it's not easy at all to go through and to 'get' the way 
 it works.
 
 I believe that there is room between vimtutor and :help to have some 
 beginner to intermediate tutorial that will take you by the hand and 
 bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy way.  Let's not 
 forget (especially for the Vim gurus out there) that Vim is very 
 powerful but because of that it can be very hard to understand sometimes 
 or even to adapt to it and make it your favourite text editor.
 
 Of course Google is your friend but the sheer ammount of tutorials out 
 there can easily make you go left, right and center and basically not 
 teach you anything useful but some 'tips and tricks' that is cool but 
 won't make you code faster or deeply understand Vim.
 
 So I think that there is room for some official tutorial after the 
 vimtutor and before a perfect use of the ultimate :help.  The tutorial 
 will totally avoid to be a scientific precision on 
 how-to-exactly-define-terms-the-best-way-possible-using-the-less-words-possible.
   
 The tutorial should be well written and take time to explain things to 
 novice in simple words.  The idea is to bring people to the Vim highway 
 efficiently.  Such a basic tutorial could _also_ help novices to avoid 
 asking questions that will make any Vim guru feel like saying: 'RTFM'
 
 As an example, here are some topics proposed:
 
 Non-technical:
 - Phylosophy behind Vim
 Where you would learn why it will help you to be faster in your 
 everyday coding and what the user has to understand to truely enjoy Vim 
 (talk about the need to touch-type to be truely efficient for instance)
 - Phylosophy behind the three modes (Normal, Visual, Insert)
 - Phylosophy behind the command line mode
 - Differences between Vi and Vim
 - Explain the folder structure and how the various config files work
 - Differences between Vim on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and console use
 - Configure once, use everywhere (or how to adapt your config to a 
 different platform)
 - etc.
 
 Technical:
 - The big apple : Think different!
 Where you would learn that you need to think gg instead of 
 'CTRL-home' or xp to invert the order of two letters etc.  This could 
 have a list of standard keyboard shortcuts mapped to a list of Vim 
 shortcuts.
 - Basics of Vim variables (:set :let etc.)
 - My first function : hello world!
 - Basic understanding of filetypes
 - Basic folding
 - Basics of syntax highlighting
 - Basic mappings  abbreviations
 - etc.
 
 Help!  I need somebody
 - Phylosophy behind the :help command: how to 'think' :help
 - How to use :help efficiently
 - Good references to go one step further
 - etc.
 
 Of course, this is only a guide of what would be useful to a beginner 
 but I firmy believe that some official tutorial is needed.  Maybe this 
 could be achieved by doing a 'best off' the various tutorials already 
 available.
 
 Let me know what you think of this,
 Laurent
 
 A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
 Meghdad Azriel wrote:
 I was just kidding ;)

 I know that they are not secret but, they´re not that intuitive... 
 and i´m
 still learning how to use that help  effectivelly...


 maybe I neet to read those basic files with care...
 [...]

 To use the help effectively, one should learn to use the tools Vim 
 itself includes to search the help (see, among others, :help :help 
 and :help :helpgrep):

 :help topic

 brings you to the help for topic if there is one, otherwise to some 
 help topic resembling what you typed

 :help patternTab

 completes your command-line with the first help topic matching the 
 pattern. Hit Tab again to see the next one. Hit Ctrl-D to see them 
 all. If you have 'wildmenu' on, the bottom status line will be 
 replaced by a menu of possible matches: hit Left or Right to 
 select, Enter to accept, Esc to abort.

 :helpgrep pattern

 searches the whole help text for /pattern/. The results are used to 
 build a quickfix error list (see :help quickfix.txt). Then the 
 following commands may come useful:

 :cn[ext]
 :cp[revious] or :cN[ext]
 :cnf[ile]
 :cpf[ile] or :cNf[ile]
 :cfir[st] or :cr[ewind]
 :cla[st]

 to navigate the list, displaying the helpfiles with the cursor on a 
 match;

 :cope[n]

 to open 

Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-20 Thread Rodolfo Borges

On 10/18/06, Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

The way to fix this problem is to create two new directories:

$VIM\vimfiles\after
$VIM\vimfiles\after\ftplugin

on Windows or

~/.vim/after
~/.vim/after/ftplugin

on Unix.  Then create a new file in the after/ftplugin directory
named php.vim and put in it those commands that fix the problem,
e.g.,

setlocal nosta
setlocal noai
setlocal nosi


An alternative to creating ~/.vimrc/after/ftplugin/php.vim is to put
it in your ~/.vimrc, using the autocmd FileType feature, like this:

autocmd! FileType php setlocal nosta | setlocal noai | setlocal nosi

For example, I have this:

autocmd! FileType perl FileTypePerl
command! FileTypePerl setlocal makeprg=perl\ -c\ %
\   | let perl_extended_vars=1
\   | setlocal keywordprg=perldoc\ -f
\   | setlocal cindent
\   | setlocal errorformat=
\%-G%.%#had\ compilation\ errors.,
\%-G%.%#syntax\ OK,
\%m\ at\ %f\ line\ %l.,
\%+A%.%#\ at\ %f\ line\ %l\\,%.%#,
\%+C%.%#

--
Rodolfo Borges


Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-20 Thread Meghdad Azriel

I find that the problem is that I installed gVim the first time and I was
already thinking about how making it highlight the codes, highlight errors,
auto complete control structures, tags and functions...

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to make vim show tips
automatically, tips about function parameters, classes, method...


I wanna be a guru in a blink of eyes :P



H-10 wrote:
 
 On Oct 20, 2006, at 1:39 AM, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
 
 vim wrote:
 Hi everobody,
 I recently had a very similar conversation with three guys on #vim  
 (irc.freenode.net).
 Basicaly, there is two official help for Vim:
- the vimtutor
- :help
 And that's basically it.
 :help being your Vim dictionnary/encyclopedia/bible, it's very  
 complete and has everything in it but it's hardcore to read and  
 understand.  Unfortunately, it's not easy at all to go through and  
 to 'get' the way it works.
 I believe that there is room between vimtutor and :help to have  
 some beginner to intermediate tutorial that will take you by the  
 hand and bring you through the Vim universe in a nice and easy  
 way.  Let's not forget (especially for the Vim gurus out there)  
 that Vim is very powerful but because of that it can be very hard  
 to understand sometimes or even to adapt to it and make it your  
 favourite text editor.
 Of course Google is your friend but the sheer ammount of tutorials  
 out there can easily make you go left, right and center and  
 basically not teach you anything useful but some 'tips and tricks'  
 that is cool but won't make you code faster or deeply understand Vim.
 So I think that there is room for some official tutorial after the  
 vimtutor and before a perfect use of the ultimate :help.  The  
 tutorial will totally avoid to be a scientific precision on how-to- 
 exactly-define-terms-the-best-way-possible-using-the-less-words- 
 possible.  The tutorial should be well written and take time to  
 explain things to novice in simple words.  The idea is to bring  
 people to the Vim highway efficiently.  Such a basic tutorial  
 could _also_ help novices to avoid asking questions that will make  
 any Vim guru feel like saying: 'RTFM'
 As an example, here are some topics proposed:
 Non-technical:
 - Phylosophy behind Vim
Where you would learn why it will help you to be faster in your  
 everyday coding and what the user has to understand to truely  
 enjoy Vim (talk about the need to touch-type to be truely  
 efficient for instance)
 - Phylosophy behind the three modes (Normal, Visual, Insert)
 - Phylosophy behind the command line mode
 - Differences between Vi and Vim
 - Explain the folder structure and how the various config files work
 - Differences between Vim on Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and console  
 use
 - Configure once, use everywhere (or how to adapt your config to a  
 different platform)
 - etc.
 Technical:
 - The big apple : Think different!
Where you would learn that you need to think gg instead of  
 'CTRL-home' or xp to invert the order of two letters etc.  This  
 could have a list of standard keyboard shortcuts mapped to a list  
 of Vim shortcuts.
 - Basics of Vim variables (:set :let etc.)
 - My first function : hello world!
 - Basic understanding of filetypes
 - Basic folding
 - Basics of syntax highlighting
 - Basic mappings  abbreviations
 - etc.
 Help!  I need somebody
 - Phylosophy behind the :help command: how to 'think' :help
 - How to use :help efficiently
 - Good references to go one step further
 - etc.
 Of course, this is only a guide of what would be useful to a  
 beginner but I firmy believe that some official tutorial is  
 needed.  Maybe this could be achieved by doing a 'best off' the  
 various tutorials already available.
 Let me know what you think of this,
 Laurent

 I think that between the tutor and help, tere are also the vimFAQ  
 and vimtips (both at vim-online).

 You seem to have interesting ideas. Maybe you should discuss them  
 with the FAQ maintainer.


 Best regards,
 Tony.
 Hi,
 
 As one of the potential beneficiaries of the proposed document, I'd  
 like to add that what I have a hard time finding are the 'philosophy'  
 items mentioned in the proposal.  I'd like to get a better  
 understanding of the way Vim views text, what the modes are for,  
 etc.  i.e. the bigger picture.
 
 I find :help to be excellent when I know what question to ask, but  
 often lack the context to know where best to look.  Reading this list  
 helps fill in the concepts in an ad hoc sort of way, but a more  
 systematic exposition would be nice.
 
 HTH, Hal
 
 
 
 

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Re: Fighting with comments - Close the gap between vimtutor and :help

2006-10-20 Thread A.J.Mechelynck

Meghdad Azriel wrote:
[...]

I wanna be a guru in a blink of eyes :P

[...]

You can't: TANSTAAFL. (And if you haven't read R. A. Heinlein's /The Moon is a 
Harsh Mistress/, TANSTAAFL is an acronym for: 'T ain't no such thing as a free 
lunch.)


The only way to become a guru is by hard labour: attentively studying whatever 
documentation is available (and in Vim's case, there's no lack of it), 
hands-on experience (trying various things and seeing what they do) and, if 
you know the programming language, peering through the code.



Best regards,
Tony.


Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-19 Thread eric1235711

My gvim version is 7.0


eric1235711 wrote:
 
 Hello
 
 I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and I´m
 liking it very much
 
 But I got a trouble...
 
 When I´m commenting (// or /* or #) and I type SPACE it breaks the line
 automatically. Always I start a comment, i have to go to normal mode and
 type :set nostaCR :set noaiCR :set nosiCR
 
 I find that only nosta or nosi is enought to make it stop breaking the
 line automatically, but I want to configure to it stop doing it forever...
 
 I took a look in syntax/php.vim but I just don´t know where correct it...
 
 Do you have any idea of how I fix it?
 

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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-19 Thread eric1235711

here it's in this way:
C:/Program Files/Vim
and it contains vim70/ and vimfiles/

Oh, thanks, Gary! it worked!!!

But I didn´t like it!!!

when I changed C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/php.vim it stoped
'autowriting' comments in new lines...
but when I changed C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/after/ftplugin/php.vim it
worked perfectly... 

I didn´t undertand... why did it work?


Gary Johnson wrote:
 
 On 2006-10-18, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 First of all, don't alter any of the files that are in the
 $VIMRUNTIME directory.  For Vim-7.0 on Windows, this is commonly
 
 C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70
 
 Doing so will cause you to lose those changes when you upgrade your
 vim installation.
 
 The way to fix this problem is to create two new directories:
 
 $VIM\vimfiles\after
 $VIM\vimfiles\after\ftplugin
 
 on Windows or
 
 ~/.vim/after
 ~/.vim/after/ftplugin
 
 on Unix.  Then create a new file in the after/ftplugin directory
 named php.vim and put in it those commands that fix the problem,
 e.g.,
 
 setlocal nosta
 setlocal noai
 setlocal nosi
 
 Note the use of setlocal instead of set.  This will keep those
 changes local to your PHP buffer(s) so that you can use other
 settings in other buffers you might have open at the same time.
 
 See:
 
 :help ftplugin-overrule
 :help ftplugin
 
 HTH,
 Gary
 
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  | Spokane, Washington, USA
 
 

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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-19 Thread eric1235711

this worked too

I think this is better, help tells that this formatoptions is specific to
coments and things...

But I´m getting disgusted of these secret and magic commands...

thaks


Peter Hodge-2 wrote:
 
 
 --- Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 On 2006-10-18, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Yakov Lerner-3 wrote:
   
   On 10/18/06, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Hello
  
   I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and
 I´m
   liking it very much
  
   But I got a trouble...
  
   When I´m commenting (// or /* or #) and I type SPACE it breaks the
 line
   automatically. Always I start a comment, i have to go to normal mode
 and
   type :set nostaCR :set noaiCR :set nosiCR
  
   I find that only nosta or nosi is enought to make it stop breaking
 the
   line
   automatically, but I want to configure to it stop doing it
 forever...
  
   I took a look in syntax/php.vim but I just don´t know where correct
 it...
  
   Do you have any idea of how I fix it?
   
   Does this help:
  :set tw=0
   ?
 
  I can fix it when I´m programming, i´m doing it... but I´m getting
 tired of
  doing that.
  
  I want to alter the syntax file (or what ever else) to fix it
 permanently.
 
 First of all, don't alter any of the files that are in the
 $VIMRUNTIME directory.  For Vim-7.0 on Windows, this is commonly
 
 C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70
 
 Doing so will cause you to lose those changes when you upgrade your
 vim installation.
 
 The way to fix this problem is to create two new directories:
 
 $VIM\vimfiles\after
 $VIM\vimfiles\after\ftplugin
 
 on Windows or
 
 ~/.vim/after
 ~/.vim/after/ftplugin
 
 on Unix.  Then create a new file in the after/ftplugin directory
 named php.vim and put in it those commands that fix the problem,
 e.g.,
 
 setlocal nosta
 setlocal noai
 setlocal nosi
 
 I wouldn't have thought those options would make a difference? You should
 be
 able to just use (in after/ftplugin/php.vim):
 
don't auto-wrap text
   setlocal formatoptions-=t
 
don't auto-wrap comments either.
   setlocal formatoptions-=c
 
 regards,
 Peter
 
 
   
  
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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2006-10-19, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 here it's in this way:
 C:/Program Files/Vim
 and it contains vim70/ and vimfiles/
 
 Oh, thanks, Gary! it worked!!!
 
 But I didn´t like it!!!
 
 when I changed C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/php.vim it stoped
 'autowriting' comments in new lines...
 but when I changed C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/after/ftplugin/php.vim it
 worked perfectly... 
 
 I didn´t undertand... why did it work?

You're welcome.  Take a look at:

:help rtp

When you load a buffer that vim determines to be of filetype php, 
vim searches the runtimepath for filetype plugins to source.  It 
will source your C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/php.vim, 
then the C:/Program Files/Vim/vim70/ftplugin/php.vim that came with 
the vim distribution, then your
C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/after/ftplugin/php.vim.  So, settings 
that you put in C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/ftplugin/php.vim may 
be overridden by the settings in
C:/Program Files/Vim/vim70/ftplugin/php.vim, but since
C:/Program Files/Vim/vimfiles/after/ftplugin/php.vim is sourced 
last, its settings will win.

I hope that helps explain what you're seeing.

Regards,
Gary

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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2006-10-19, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 this worked too
 
 I think this is better, help tells that this formatoptions is specific to
 coments and things...
 
 But I´m getting disgusted of these secret and magic commands...

Secret?  You might find it helpful to look at

:help user-manual

and browsing the table of contents for topics that appear related to 
what you're trying to do.

Regards,
Gary

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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-19 Thread Meghdad Azriel

I was just kidding ;)

I know that they are not secret but, they´re not that intuitive... and i´m
still learning how to use that help  effectivelly...


maybe I neet to read those basic files with care...



Gary Johnson wrote:
 
 On 2006-10-19, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 this worked too
 
 I think this is better, help tells that this formatoptions is specific to
 coments and things...
 
 But I´m getting disgusted of these secret and magic commands...
 
 Secret?  You might find it helpful to look at
 
 :help user-manual
 
 and browsing the table of contents for topics that appear related to 
 what you're trying to do.
 
 Regards,
 Gary
 
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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-18 Thread Yakov Lerner

On 10/18/06, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hello

I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and I´m
liking it very much

But I got a trouble...

When I´m commenting (// or /* or #) and I type SPACE it breaks the line
automatically. Always I start a comment, i have to go to normal mode and
type :set nostaCR :set noaiCR :set nosiCR

I find that only nosta or nosi is enought to make it stop breaking the line
automatically, but I want to configure to it stop doing it forever...

I took a look in syntax/php.vim but I just don´t know where correct it...

Do you have any idea of how I fix it?


Does this help:
  :set tw=0
?

Yakov


Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-18 Thread eric1235711

Hello Yakov

I can fix it when I´m programming, i´m doing it... but I´m getting tired of
doing that.

I want to alter the syntax file (or what ever else) to fix it permanently.


Yakov Lerner-3 wrote:
 
 On 10/18/06, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hello

 I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and I´m
 liking it very much

 But I got a trouble...

 When I´m commenting (// or /* or #) and I type SPACE it breaks the line
 automatically. Always I start a comment, i have to go to normal mode and
 type :set nostaCR :set noaiCR :set nosiCR

 I find that only nosta or nosi is enought to make it stop breaking the
 line
 automatically, but I want to configure to it stop doing it forever...

 I took a look in syntax/php.vim but I just don´t know where correct it...

 Do you have any idea of how I fix it?
 
 Does this help:
:set tw=0
 ?
 
 Yakov
 
 

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Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2006-10-18, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Yakov Lerner-3 wrote:
  
  On 10/18/06, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Hello
 
  I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and I´m
  liking it very much
 
  But I got a trouble...
 
  When I´m commenting (// or /* or #) and I type SPACE it breaks the line
  automatically. Always I start a comment, i have to go to normal mode and
  type :set nostaCR :set noaiCR :set nosiCR
 
  I find that only nosta or nosi is enought to make it stop breaking the
  line
  automatically, but I want to configure to it stop doing it forever...
 
  I took a look in syntax/php.vim but I just don´t know where correct it...
 
  Do you have any idea of how I fix it?
  
  Does this help:
 :set tw=0
  ?

 I can fix it when I´m programming, i´m doing it... but I´m getting tired of
 doing that.
 
 I want to alter the syntax file (or what ever else) to fix it permanently.

First of all, don't alter any of the files that are in the
$VIMRUNTIME directory.  For Vim-7.0 on Windows, this is commonly

C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70

Doing so will cause you to lose those changes when you upgrade your
vim installation.

The way to fix this problem is to create two new directories:

$VIM\vimfiles\after
$VIM\vimfiles\after\ftplugin

on Windows or

~/.vim/after
~/.vim/after/ftplugin

on Unix.  Then create a new file in the after/ftplugin directory
named php.vim and put in it those commands that fix the problem,
e.g.,

setlocal nosta
setlocal noai
setlocal nosi

Note the use of setlocal instead of set.  This will keep those
changes local to your PHP buffer(s) so that you can use other
settings in other buffers you might have open at the same time.

See:

:help ftplugin-overrule
:help ftplugin

HTH,
Gary

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division
 | Spokane, Washington, USA


Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Hodge

--- Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 2006-10-18, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Yakov Lerner-3 wrote:
   
   On 10/18/06, eric1235711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Hello
  
   I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and I´m
   liking it very much
  
   But I got a trouble...
  
   When I´m commenting (// or /* or #) and I type SPACE it breaks the
 line
   automatically. Always I start a comment, i have to go to normal mode and
   type :set nostaCR :set noaiCR :set nosiCR
  
   I find that only nosta or nosi is enought to make it stop breaking the
   line
   automatically, but I want to configure to it stop doing it forever...
  
   I took a look in syntax/php.vim but I just don´t know where correct
 it...
  
   Do you have any idea of how I fix it?
   
   Does this help:
  :set tw=0
   ?
 
  I can fix it when I´m programming, i´m doing it... but I´m getting tired of
  doing that.
  
  I want to alter the syntax file (or what ever else) to fix it permanently.
 
 First of all, don't alter any of the files that are in the
 $VIMRUNTIME directory.  For Vim-7.0 on Windows, this is commonly
 
 C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70
 
 Doing so will cause you to lose those changes when you upgrade your
 vim installation.
 
 The way to fix this problem is to create two new directories:
 
 $VIM\vimfiles\after
 $VIM\vimfiles\after\ftplugin
 
 on Windows or
 
 ~/.vim/after
 ~/.vim/after/ftplugin
 
 on Unix.  Then create a new file in the after/ftplugin directory
 named php.vim and put in it those commands that fix the problem,
 e.g.,
 
 setlocal nosta
 setlocal noai
 setlocal nosi

I wouldn't have thought those options would make a difference? You should be
able to just use (in after/ftplugin/php.vim):

   don't auto-wrap text
  setlocal formatoptions-=t

   don't auto-wrap comments either.
  setlocal formatoptions-=c

regards,
Peter



 
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