Re: Visible Spaces
This is what I'd thinked about. IMO, Consider use the Underlined group, The underlined is not a character, but it looks like a character. I guess this suit Johnson's need better. HTH -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Benji Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2006.07.21 13:56:55: Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for spaces? Step 1: :hi and look for a pleasing color. I am not using the GUI right now, and it looks as though my choices are limited. (Many groups change the foreground color but not the background, at least in the default color scheme with my terminal.) I will choose DiffChange . Second step: :match DiffChange / / Ahh! That looks awful, so :match NONE will get me back to normal. HTH --Benji Fisher P.S. I think that :match NONE only works with vim 7.0, but I think the rest works with vim 6.x. On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:48:45AM +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Thanks guys! Intermediate spaces were what I was looking for, oh well. :-/ On 7/21/06, Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:19 +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Vim can only represent trailing spaces, not any intermediate ones. (Per the previously mentioned listchars option.) -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
Re: Visible Spaces
Steve Hall wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:19 +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Vim can only represent trailing spaces, not any intermediate ones. (Per the previously mentioned listchars option.) Note I don't find this an issue as vim does highlight intermediate tabs, I use the following settings ~/.vimrc for visible whitespace: flag problematic whitespace (trailing and spaces before tabs) Note you get the same by doing let c_space_errors=1 but this rule really applys to everything. highlight RedundantSpaces term=standout ctermbg=red guibg=red match RedundantSpaces /\s\+$\| \+\ze\t/ use :set list! to toggle visible whitespace on/off set listchars=tab:-,trail:.,extends: Pádraig.
RE: Visible Spaces
Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for spaces? Step 1: Ah, that's an idea. Just / to search for spaces (assumes highlighting's turned on), and they'll all be highlighted. He wants to turn off highlighting, just /qqq or something. Else maybe tweak the font to change space to middot; or something. Thing is, change the font to something else, and that goes away, and he'd have to tweak the font for that as well. Eg, if he's using Lucida console 10pt, make a copy of the font, rename to something else (Lucidaspace or whatever), edit the font to change the space char, then when you want visispaces, just font your way to that. Want invisispaces again, change back to the normal Lucida font.
Re: Visible Spaces
On 21 Jul 2006, at 05:19, Stewart Johnson wrote: Hi All - Sorry if this obvious but I couldn't find anything in :help or google. Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Thanks, Stewart :set hls / That is slash then a space ;-) Jerry
RE: Visible Spaces
Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for
spaces? Step 1:
Ah, that's an idea. Just / to search for spaces (assumes
highlighting's turned on), and they'll all be highlighted. He wants to
turn off highlighting, just /qqq or something.
Else maybe tweak the font to change space to middot; or something.
Thing is, change the font to something else, and that goes away, and
he'd have to tweak the font for that as well.
Eg, if he's using Lucida console 10pt, make a copy of the font, rename
to something else (Lucidaspace or whatever), edit the font to change
the space char, then when you want visispaces, just font your way to
that. Want invisispaces again, change back to the normal Lucida font.
I prefer /;; to turn off highlighting. the keys are right next to each
other and never happen in any languages I use.
For spaces, maybe not exactly the same thing, but I have a .vim to color
every three out of four leading spaces as magenta underline (in a
non-expandtab file). The file also points out a lot of other spacing issues.
Activate this anywhere that doesn't have a strict real-tab rule and
you'll see all the inconsistancies light up. The blue underlines
between words are ok and just there to help line up widely spaced tables.
I should probably add something to ignore the two spaces between
sentences in prose.
odd_space.vim:
syn match newtab [\t]\+$ containedin=ALL
syn match spacereturn [ ]$ containedin=ALL
syn match spacetab[ ]\tme=e-1 containedin=ALL
syn match tabspace\t[ ]\+lc=1 containedin=ALL
syn match tabtab [ -'*-Z^-z|~]\t\t\t*[
-'*-.0-Z^-z|~]lc=1,me=e-1
containedin=ALLBUT,cComment
syn match leadspace [ ][ ]lc=1 contained
syn match pairspace [ ][ ]hs=s+1 contained
nextgroup=pairspace,leadspace
syn match quadspace [ ][ ][ ][ ]hs=s+1 contained
nextgroup=quadspace,pairspace,leadspace
syn match pairstart ^[ ][ ]hs=s+1
nextgroup=quadspace,pairspace,leadspace
syn match quadstart ^[ ][ ][ ][ ]hs=s+1
nextgroup=quadspace,pairspace,leadspace
syn match spaces [^ ][ ]\{2,}lc=1
hi spacetab ctermfg=Red guifg=red
gui=underline cterm=underline
hi tabspace ctermfg=Red guifg=red
gui=underline cterm=underline
hi spacereturn ctermfg=Red guifg=red
gui=underline cterm=underline
hi newtab ctermfg=Blueguifg=#FF gui=underline
cterm=underline
hi tabtab ctermfg=Blueguifg=#88 gui=underline
cterm=underline
if expandtab == 0
hi quadspacectermfg=Magenta guifg=#440044 gui=underline
cterm=underline
else
hi link quadspace Normal
endif
hi linkpairstart pairspace
hi linkquadstart quadspace
hi spaces ctermfg=DarkRed guifg=#55 gui=underline
cterm=underline
hi pairspacectermfg=Yellow guifg=#00 gui=underline
cterm=underline
hi link leadspace pairspace
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Re: Visible Spaces
Jason Weber wrote: Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for spaces? Step 1: Ah, that's an idea. Just / to search for spaces (assumes highlighting's turned on), and they'll all be highlighted. He wants to turn off highlighting, just /qqq or something. Else maybe tweak the font to change space to middot; or something. Thing is, change the font to something else, and that goes away, and he'd have to tweak the font for that as well. Eg, if he's using Lucida console 10pt, make a copy of the font, rename to something else (Lucidaspace or whatever), edit the font to change the space char, then when you want visispaces, just font your way to that. Want invisispaces again, change back to the normal Lucida font. I prefer /;; to turn off highlighting. the keys are right next to each other and never happen in any languages I use. [...] To turn off highlighting until next search, vim has the :noh[lsearch] command. You may want to use something like :map ;; :nohCR if :noh (4 keys including Enter) is too long for you. Best regards, Tony.
Re: Visible Spaces
On Fri 21-Jul-06 12:51pm -0600, Jason Weber wrote: Ah, that's an idea. Just / to search for spaces (assumes highlighting's turned on), and they'll all be highlighted. He wants to turn off highlighting, just /qqq or something. I prefer /;; to turn off highlighting. the keys are right next to each other and never happen in any languages I use. I clear the last search pattern often enough that I use a mapping: map leader\ :let @/=barecho Search pattern clearedcr -- Best regards, Bill
Re: Visible Spaces
From: Bill McCarthy, Jul 21, 2006 2:14 PM I clear the last search pattern often enough that I use a mapping: map leader\ :let @/=barecho Search pattern clearedcr Which does the same as: :noh -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
Re: Visible Spaces
On Fri 21-Jul-06 1:36pm -0600, Steve Hall wrote: From: Bill McCarthy, Jul 21, 2006 2:14 PM I clear the last search pattern often enough that I use a mapping: map leader\ :let @/=barecho Search pattern clearedcr Which does the same as: :noh They do produce the same immediate visual affect. They are not the same. :noh leaves the search pattern active. After ':noh' try 'n' to see the highlighting back on. let @/= replaces the last search pattern with an empty string. Typing 'n' will produce this message: E35: No previous regular expression -- Best regards, Bill
Re: Visible Spaces
Steve Hall wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:19 +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Vim can only represent trailing spaces, not any intermediate ones. (Per the previously mentioned listchars option.) True. It can represent hard tabs anywhere, and spaces at end-of-line. It can also add a special character after the end of the line to mark its length. Depending on what you 'really' want to do, this may or may not be OK for you. Or you might want to use :1,$s/ /./ to replace all spaces by dots, then (immediately after) u for undo. Best regards, Tony.
Re: Visible Spaces
Hi! Or you might want to use :1,$s/ /./ to replace all spaces by dots, then (immediately after) u for undo. To replace _all_ spaces by dots, you should better use :%s/ /./g because your command replaces the first space character of each line only. With 'g' at the end, all space characters are replaced. Best wishes, Georg ___ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. The New Version is radically easier to use The Wall Street Journal http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
Re: Visible Spaces
Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for spaces? Step 1: :hi and look for a pleasing color. I am not using the GUI right now, and it looks as though my choices are limited. (Many groups change the foreground color but not the background, at least in the default color scheme with my terminal.) I will choose DiffChange . Second step: :match DiffChange / / Ahh! That looks awful, so :match NONE will get me back to normal. HTH --Benji Fisher P.S. I think that :match NONE only works with vim 7.0, but I think the rest works with vim 6.x. On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:48:45AM +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Thanks guys! Intermediate spaces were what I was looking for, oh well. :-/ On 7/21/06, Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:19 +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Vim can only represent trailing spaces, not any intermediate ones. (Per the previously mentioned listchars option.) -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
