RE: write a very basic syntax file
Jose Caballero wrote: > Now I only need to figure out how to highlight comments. I'm not sure if that point is covered, but try: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Creating_your_own_syntax_files John -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: conflagration between expantab and softtabstop
toothpik wrote: > I find this unexpected -- history dictates when I am having unexpected > results it is because I don't fully understand what I am doing, so please, > ppl, educate me -- why are spaces inserted with noexpandtab set? The info here might help: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indenting_source_code John -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: vimdiff options by file type?
David Woodfall wrote: > Sorry for going off topic a little, but is the order that > .vimrc, .vim/plugin/* etc. are read listed somewhere? For more detail than can be digested: :help startup John -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: visincr and mswin not compatible
jordi_frei wrote: > The thing is that, I really need to use cntrl-C, cntrl-V Do not source mwwin.vim and do not use 'behave mswin'. Instead, put the following in your _vimrc. " Select all, cut, copy, paste. nnoremap ggVG vnoremap "+x vnoremap "+y nnoremap "+gP cnoremap + exe 'inoremap
RE: displaying ^M carriage returns in a file, like the 'old' vi used to do
So, the question has been raised, and I'm posting it to this group. Is there a simple method, in vim, of displaying ^M carriage return characters as a precaution or test when their presence in a file can be detrimental, if not catastrophic? There is some good information at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format To be sure there are no lingering ^M you can search: /\r In a search, \r finds ^M. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Diff mode via Tabs
David Fishburn wrote: I use gVim for diffing from my source control system using: gvim.exe -O -d file1.txt file2.txt I avoid problems by working in Vim. I use some external tool to generate a list of files I want to diff, then paste it into a temporary buffer in Vim. Either the external tool or a Vim script massages the list to come up with text like this: :tabe new1.txt :vert diffs old1.txt :tabe new2.txt :vert diffs old2.txt :tabe new3.txt :vert diffs old3.txt With the cursor in that, the following copies and executes it: yip @ John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: reverting keymaps for location-list buffer
Stephan Sahm wrote: I remapped CR and I really like my remapping. There are however some problems For quickfix buffers I found this: autocmd BufReadPost quickfix nnoremap CR CR is there something similar for location-list buffers? To make Enter work normally in a quickfix window, rather than rely on auto commands, you can create file: ~/vimfiles/ftplugin/qf.vim containing the single line: nnoremap buffer CR CR The above is all that is needed to make Enter behave as Enter in quickfix and local-list buffers (in normal mode, which is all you need). John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: BufReadPost event for location list
Stephan Sahm wrote: I want to do the following for location-list buffers: autocmd BufReadPost quickfix nnoremap CR CR Please don't ask essentially the same question twice. See my answer to the other question. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: reverting keymaps for location-list buffer
Stephan Sahm wrote: is the vimfiles folder maybe wrong? must it be somewhere under .vim/ maybe? Sorry, my confusion. For a Unix-based system, create file (you may have to create the directory first): ~/.vim/ftplugin/qf.vim containing the single line: nnoremap buffer CR CR The above should make pressing Enter work as expected in quickfix and local-list buffers. With the cursor in one of those windows, enter the following command to see what mapping is in effect, and where it was set. You only care about the n line which is the mapping for normal mode. :verbose map CR John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Cannot log into my vim account.
I cannot log into my vim account (http://www.vim.org/account/profile.php?user_id=34258) and there is no way to reset the password. It says to ask Bram to reset my password. You can email me as Bram might be a bit busy. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: gvim not showing unicode Devanagari - Hindi text
V S Rawat wrote: My gvim, vim 7.4 on w8 is not showing unicode Devanagari - Hindi text. What is it showing? Vim requires that you have selected a suitable font which has to be mono-spaced. This shows that CJK can be handled with the right font so presumably some font would handle what you need, although I do not know how well it works for editing. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Generate_all_Unicode_characters John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How can I better use Vim help
Sayth Renshaw wrote: How is the best way in vim to use the help system when I am unsure exactly what term or phrase to look for? The tip has some useful info: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Learn_to_use_help Your question about vertical splits is very general and an example of what you mean might be needed. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: why function! instead of just function
Bao Niu wrote: I am learning Vimscript and I wonder if there is any difference between writing function! vs. function? Expanding on Tim's reply, suppose you have file h.vim which contains: function! Hello() echoerr 'Hello' endfunction In Vim, assuming the directory shown by :pwd is the directory holding h.vim, you can do the following to source the script: :so h.vim That executes h.vim which defines the function. You could edit h.vim and source it again, and the edited function would replace the original. The idea is to help you to not accidentally overwrite functions. If you do not have !, the function will not be replaced if you try to define it again. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Should vimgrep always use / to enclose your search patterns?
Bao Niu wrote: in Vim is enclosing your search pattern with / recommended? The documentation says it is optional. If it's optional then why not just forget it? I would be too nervous to follow Tim's advice, but it seems to work. Are you aware of the general rule that applies to commands like :s (substitute)? An example to replace hello with goodbye: :%s/hello/goodbye/g Suppose you need to replace something with slashes in it. The following attempt to replace a/b will NOT WORK: :%s/a/b/goodbye/g However, the following will work: :%s.a/b.goodbye.g These tips are worth careful study: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Searching http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: converting format
John Culleton wrote: I have a customer's file in dos format. Is there a command to convert it to *nix format? The advice you have received so far is not the whole story. See: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Site error
Gabor Urban wrote: I wanted to check something among the scripts, and encountered the following error: An error has been encountered in accessing this page. 1. Server: www.vim.org 2. URL path: /scripts/script_search_results.php The site is hosted on sourceforge.org and they have problems from time to time. I check the above every day and it has been broken for the last few days. However, it is now ok. There is not much we can do about it, but thanks for reporting. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: how to display different color in vi
skyworld wrote: normally I use gvim instead of vi. My question is for gvim is: can i use different color to show diffent word? For example, I would like to highlight word red with red and yellow with color yellow in one document. Is this possible? The tip for that is: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words It can be done manually to a limited extent. In the following, Search and Error are highlight groups that should be displayed by default with the :highlight command. :match Search /\yellow\/ :2match Error /\red\/ To switch highlighting off: :match none :2match none John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Expanding a variable
David Fishburn wrote: Assume the net result is I have this: let test_newline = '\n' Is this what you mean? :let x = '\n' :let x = substitute(x, '\\n', '\n', 'g') :echo char2nr(x) The first line puts a string of two characters (a backslash and n) into x. The second line changes that to a single newline character. The third line displays 10 (linefeed). John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: vim to format/prettyprint assembly lang source - Best way?
russurquhart1 wrote: I have some assembly language source, in an older document, that when it was ported to our current platform, the code samples got messed up. I am now faced with the task of going through and reformatting the assembly language examples. I'm using vim, to format the code but it is still a pretty manual task. I was wondering if anyone could suggest a better method. I start with something like this: Code MOVIZF32 R1H, #-2.0 ; R1H = -2.0 (0xC000) ABSF32 R1H, R1H ; R1H = 2.0 (0x4000), ZF = NF = 0 MOVIZF32 R0H, #5.0 ; R0H = 5.0 (0x40A0) ABSF32 R0H, R0H ; R0H = 5.0 (0x40A0), ZF = NF = 0 MOVIZF32 R0H, #0.0 ; R0H = 0.0 ABSF32 R1H, R0H ; R1H = 0.0 ZF = 1, NF = 0/Code And to maintain the formatting i need to end up with something like this: Code MOVIZF32 R1H, #-2.0; R1H = -2.0 (0xC000) ABSF32 R1H, R1H ; R1H = 2.0 (0x4000), ZF = NF = 0 MOVIZF32 R0H, #5.0 ; R0H = 5.0 (0x40A0) ABSF32 R0H, R0H ; R0H = 5.0 (0x40A0), ZF = NF = 0 MOVIZF32 R0H, #0.0 ; R0H = 0.0 ABSF32 R1H, R0H ; R1H = 0.0 ZF = 1, NF = 0/Code Are you able to inspect the file with a hex editor (or use :r !xxd file name) and determine whether there are any Unique bytes that mark end of line? Or, did all the line endings end up a space? How long is a typical line which contains all the statements? Does each statement have a comment? If so, something might be done with a substitute. That would be easier if each instruction had an identifiable form. Does each consist of uppercase letters with 32 at the end? If so, try: :%s/ \ze\u\u\+32\/\r /g John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How to make a local option global?
Cesar Romani wrote: How can I make an option global for the current session? For example, I notices that comments is set as a local option. How can I make it global when editing a bunch of files? As Ben mentioned, settings like that should be set via filetype. If you have several open files and you want to change a local setting in each of them, use :bufdo or one of its variants such as :argdo. :bufdo set commentstring=//\ %s John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: vim.org fails to redirect to www.vim.org for Chrome users
Andrew Pennebaker wrote: When I enter vim.org into the address bar in Firefox, it successfully redirects to www.vim.org. But when I enter vim.org in Chrome, no redirect happens. That has been discussed a couple of times in the past. The person who provides the DNS for Vim does so in an extremely reliable and efficient manner, so what they say goes. The issue is that vim.org is a domain and should not be expected to work in a browser. A browser has to connect to a host (www.vim.org). Some browsers try adding www. when plain vim.org does not resolve to a host name, so vim.org works in some browsers. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: vim function for printing text in to a buffer.
sinbad wrote:
i'm trying to write a vim function to generate the following
output. first of all why is it so difficult to ptint text into
the buffer, i thought vim will have a simple printf() command
which can dump the text into the buffer, but after googling a
lot i found that append() is the function i should use. so i
wrote the following function.
...
I cannot work out exactly what you want, but a quick translation
of the code you posted would be the following.
function! Test()
for a in range(20)
for b in range(20)
$put =printf('1.2.%x:%d', a, b)
endfor
endfor
endfunction
call Test()
The '$put' appends to the current buffer ($ = last line) the
value of the expression ('='). The printf generates a string
containing '1.2.', then a in hex, then ':', then b in decimal.
John
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RE: Question about setting default syntax highlighter
Carfield Yim wrote: Hi, I need to use vim to edit config files for Visual Studio project a lot, all the config file are XML but edit with *.conf. How can I config vim to use XML syntax highlighter for all *.conf file? See the example at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Filetype.vim Sorry it's a bit hard to follow, but where it says: au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.csv setf csv you need: au! BufNewFile,BufRead *.conf setf xml John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: how to hidden the ^M without change the file
fengidri wrote: when the file has '\r\n' and '\n', I donot want see the ^M, but I donot want change the file. I recommend reading the details: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/File_format John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Clean string returned by windows console cmd
Ni Va wrote: Your command is pretty good but can I affect a variable instead of output command under the cursor into the buffer You have to do some work. :new :r !wmic logicaldisk get deviceid :1,2d :%s/\s\+$//e :let drives = getline(1,'$') :echo drives Select the above text and yank it (type yip). Then type :@ to execute the yanked text. The result is that a variable named drives is a list of the drive letters, for example: :echo drives ['C:', 'D:', 'E:'] John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Clean string returned by windows console cmd
Ni Va wrote: This is obtained by launching this command : echo system(wmic logicaldisk get deviceid) The problem is that the output from wmic is Unicode, and system is dumping the bytes. I don't know how to avoid that, but the following reads the plain text if you have the correct settings: :r !wmic logicaldisk get deviceid John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Vim trick to make all the same numbers to replace by the numbera in ascending order ?
Arup Rakshit wrote: replace by the numbera in ascending order ? You have good answers, but you might want to see the tip: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Making_a_list_of_numbers John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: vim 7.4: pasting is very slow on HP UX machine.
Sarath Addanki wrote: I'm using right click to paste into Vim via PuTTY. Has anyone pointed out what is happening? On paste (right click), PuTTY sends each character from the clipboard over the SSH session to the server where Vim is running, as if you had typed the character. I do not know the details, but PuTTY must somehow throttle sending in order to avoid overrunning the input buffer on the server. My guess is that slow pasting is an unavoidable consequence. I don't need to use PuTTY much, but in the past I have found it easier to use a separate command prompt window to upload a file (pscpy) with whatever text I needed, then read it into Vim (:r filename.txt). John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: how can I mark the indentation with (dots) in Vim ?
Arup Rakshit wrote: You can see, that, while he is typing code, indentations are showing with dots. 2 dots for 2 space indentations, 4 dots for 4 spaces etc.. How the same can be done in Vim ? Search for listchars at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_unwanted_spaces John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How to join vim maillist v...@vim.org
Qin Fu Qi wrote: I want to join the mail list v...@vim.org. Welcome, you are now a member and your message and my reply has been sent to the mailing list. The method of joining is tricky. I don't think there is any feedback from Google Groups as to what will happen next. In order to avoid spam, the first message sent has to be approved by a manager, so there may be a delay of several hours. Ideally I would have made you a member without bothering everyone by sending your message to the list, but I don't know how! I couldn't see your email address to respond directly to you. I was using the Google Groups interface for managers, and normally just click allow or spam so if there are any other useful features, I haven't seen them. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How to join the maillist v...@vim.org? Who can
Qin Fu Qi wrote: I would be insanly happy if the email could be seen by you. I am a big fun of vim and I am looking forward to joining v...@vim.org. I have replied to the other message. I went to click remove to remove this near-duplicate from the list of messages waiting to be moderated, but accidentally clicked the button which posted it. I normally remove duplicates which occur because the person posting gets no feedback from Google Groups (I think) telling that their message has been put in a queue and nothing will happen until a manager approves it (to avoid spam). John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How to join vim maillist v...@vim.org
Qin Fu Qi wrote: [personal info] Another confusing issue is that clicking Reply replies TO THE GROUP (most mail clients will show the email address of the group in the To field). Unfortunately, your message has been sent to well over a thousand people, and will be archived on various websites. I removed it from the Google Groups website, but that's all I can do. A manager cannot join anyone to a group. That stops Google from being used to send unsolicited mail (spam) to people unless they go to some trouble to request it (anyone can create a Google Group which makes them the owner and a manager). If some...@example.com wants to receive mail from a group, that email address must be used to join the group. Within 24 hours, the email address should start receiving messages from the group (except that vim-announce rarely sends messages, and you don't really need to join that group if reading vim_use). I suggest waiting for a couple of weeks before using any other email addresses to join the group because you may find that the volume of mail is a bit tedious. For example, how will you decide which messages to ignore when reading from the second address. It is quite easy to work out my email address from this message, so please compose a new message to that address if you want to ask any questions. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: How to start vimdiff?
wolfv wrote: How to start vimdiff? Using :help vimdiff shows that vimdiff is equivalent to vim -d. Using gvim (which I recommend), you could start it at command prompt: gvim -d file1 file2 Or, if you are already editing file2, you would enter: :diffs file1 It is handy to do the last step in a new tab: gvim file2 :tab sp :vert diffs file1 John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: relative marks?
Chris Lott wrote: Is there a way to set a mark (or similar) that is relative to a word? For instance, given the following text: Foo bar. Baz. And more stuff. I'd like to be able to quickly jump to the space after bar. even if the text has been changed to something like: You could do a map. The following has a space after the f. :nnoremap F8 `af Pressing F8 will then jump to the position of mark a, then to the first space. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Problem with latex template
Alain Bertrand wrote: The mailing list server seems quite slow to publish new threads. It's fast. The problem comes from the fact that the first post of each new member has to be moderated (approved by a manager). Sometimes that's fast, but it may take several hours. Also, sometimes Google decides that a message from an existing member might be spam. Such messages also have to be moderated. Unfortunately such moderation is required to avoid spam. I'm sending this to the list as a periodic reminder. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Another SRT questions
Jeri Raye wrote: For example: I want to tell you this. and also this. How to change this into: I want to tell you this. And also this. :%s/\.\_s*\zs\l/\u/gc Perhaps sentences end with other characters, so you might try: :%s/[.!?]\_s*\zs\l/\u/gc John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Select entire line based on tag, then export only those lines of text
Charles Campbell provided a good answer, but for a 1.5GB file you must have a lot of RAM, and you must disable some features before starting. First, use your operating system to copy yourtabdelimitedfile to ambulance-only-file. Then do the following: vim (or gvim) :set eventignore=FileType noswapfile undolevels=-1 :e ambulance-only-file :v/\c\ambulance\/d :wq However, that is really asking a lot, and it may take a long time. Vim is for editing a file, not for filtering a 1.5GB monstrosity. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: local hlsearch
meino wrote: I often use a search'n'replace on an area, which is limited by a previously selected visual block. Additional hlsearch is on by default. After the searech'n'replace has ended, the found places are marked all over the whole text. This is often irritating to me. Is there a way to limit the highlights set by hlsearch to those place of the visual block area? As the other reply said, map a key to turn highlights off. See: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_matches However, while not really helpful for what you asked, it is possible to limit highlights to the last visually selected block. See: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace_in_a_visual_selection For example, consider these two searches: /[abc] /\%V[abc] The first finds all a or b or c, everywhere. The second finds the same, but only in the last visual selection (what would be highlighted if gv were used). John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: how can I configure word highlighting in VIM ?
Arup Rakshit wrote: Subject: how can I configure word highlighting in VIM ? If you mean by searching, I suggest starting here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Searching See what it says (you know about *?), and scan down to the Highlighting search matches link near the bottom. There are also some search-without-moving ideas there somewhere. To just highlight, see: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_multiple_words John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: ^@
Ni Va wrote: I am launching windows cmd from GVim7.4. let cmd = 'myexecutablepath OneArg' exe !.cmd To guard against strange characters, the command must be escaped: let cmd = 'myexecutablepath OneArg' exe !.shellescape(cmd, 1) John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: marry
caughe...@comcast.net wrote: [some random URL] I do not know what the above is, and I would not recommend clicking links to random websites, but I am replying to let others know that I have adjusted this user's settings so that future messages are moderated (they will not appear unless approved by a manager). I also deleted the message from the Google Groups web interface. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: matchstr() ^ and $ wrong for multi-line text?
David Barnett wrote: I noticed that matchstr() seems to always interpret ^ as start-of-string and $ as end-of-string, even when the string is multiple lines. :help pattern says they should be start-of-line and end-of-line, respectively. For example :echo matchstr(foo\nbar, '^foo$') matches nothing. :help matchstr() says it's the same as match(), and the help for that says to see ':help string-match', and that says that \n can be matched with \n, but (by implication) not by $. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Vim Scripts Spam
ZyX wrote: Thanks, I deleted them (and the user) about six hours ago. Wondering why these scripts return 200 OK though page contents say they are not found. That is probably reasonable as the user requests script 4854, and vim.org responds with: script: I couldn't find the script you requested (script_id=4854), are you sure it exists? A page not found response would not be quite right. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Vim Scripts Spam
Paul wrote: Subject: Vim Scripts Spam http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4854 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4855 Thanks, I deleted them (and the user) about six hours ago. There has been remarkably little spam, the last I deleted was on 9 January. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: XXD with Vim
Ven Tadipatri wrote: It's nice that you can go into hex mode with Vim through the use of XXD, but it's really hard trying to find out what hex codes correspond to a given character. You know about ga and g8? In normal mode, put the cursor on a character of interest then type ga or type g8 (:help ga). g8 is good for UTF-8 as it shows the bytes used. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Vim Weekly
I'm adding a little to what Ben wrote. It is a shame about adverts at vim.wikia.com (although I never see them), but as Ben noted, the ads pay for a good server and a fast internet connection, and support. Also, there is a practically guaranteed continuity to the site because even if Ben and I were hit by the same bus, the site would still exist and others could take over. It's very unlikely that there will ever be a problem of someone failing to renew the domain name, or that the tips might be lost due to a server glitch. It would be better if everyone concentrated on one site IMHO, but people have given good reasons why they prefer something else. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Do developers use vim exclusively or alternate with an IDE?
Marc Weber wrote: Nobody prevents you from remapping ctrl-v to do what you want. The block selection is not lost, you can still start selection by v then switch to block by ctrl-v - I just assume that you use block selections less often than pasting .. You can also use Ctrl-Q to start block mode (assuming you are not using a terminal with Xon/Xoff!), instead of Ctrl-V. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Macros in Vim
I put an example at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: meaning of c-_b
FlashBurn wrote: I'm using a tcomment plugin and need to comment out a block of code. There is a command for it abbreviated in the following way c-_b I'm interpreting it as holding the Ctrl button, press underscore button, and then b. But it doesn't work for me. What am I missing. Hold down Ctrl, press _, release Ctrl, press b. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Advanced vimrc? question
Gabor Urban wrote: I use different indention depth with different types of sources. It is rather time consuming to set it manually. Is there a possibility to defined these values to file extensions? See Different settings for different file types: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Indenting_source_code John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Where does S-Insert mapping come from on Windows?
Christian Brabandt wrote: And where is this mapping actually defined? And why only on Windows? That is hardcoded in the Vim source. It can't be true! Yet... gvim -u NONE -i NONE :map :imap gives v C-X *d v C-Del *d v S-Del *d v C-Insert*y v S-Insert-d*P n S-Insert*P ! S-InsertC-RC-O* Search for Default mappings in src/getchar.c John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: regex variable
shawn wilson wrote: libpcre would be fine, yes. Or the library that Ruby uses - either way. ... I guess this should be a feature request then? Vim is strongly attached to compatibility, and is immensely complex. I would not bother requesting a new regex syntax because it won't happen. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: regex variable
shawn wilson wrote: This is probably a feature request but I really do hate the regex engine and would love to swap it out. Is there / can there be a compile time option to use a different engine? No (I assume you want different regex syntax, probably PCRE). Tony's post is talking about a new Vim regex engine intended to be fully compatible with the old syntax, but faster. Like Vim's scripting language, Vim's regex syntax makes a lot of sense for editing text because they provide procedures that often work in an optimum way. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Case insensitive search
Patterson, Joel wrote: I'll try the various suggestions. You got a lot of good suggestions, but the best thing would be to examine our tip: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Searching BTW you really should find a way to NOT post long signatures and disclaimers to a mailing list. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: mappings time out bug?
Has this issue been sorted out? Let's not work out who-said- what. The OP was: nnoremap gp `[v`] since 'g' is not mapped, it shouldn't timeout no matter what the timeout length is right? As expected, the built in mapping for gp, gv, etc. both work no matter how long one waits between the g and the p. My thoughts are that by default, and as per :help gp, there is no gp mapping, so you can press g, then wait a minute, then press p (no timeout). However, once you have a mapping (the nnoremap above), the situation is completely changed. The timeout does apply to the mapping, and you would have to type gp quickly for the g to have any effect. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Opening large files
Rajesh Kannan wrote: - Vim Online Error script:Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) - I just noticed that problem myself, and came here to see if there was a discussion. I will investigate the situation in an hour, if I get time, otherwise not until tomorrow. There was a similar problem a couple of weeks ago. Re the script, you can probably find it by searching for LargeFile at the author's site: http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/ John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Opening large files
- Vim Online Error script:Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) - I just noticed that problem myself, and came here to see if there was a discussion. I will investigate the situation in an hour, if I get time, otherwise not until tomorrow. There was a similar problem a couple of weeks ago. The problem has been corrected, not by me, and vim.org works. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Its about you - what about a github based wiki ? - demo ready
Christian Brabandt wrote: Well, there is wikipediafs¹, but this project seems dead and I couldn't convince it to either mount the wikipedia.org nor vim.wikia. So I would say, it doesn't seem to be working currently. ¹) http://wikipediafs.sourceforge.net/ I played with that a few years ago. I forget exactly what the problems were, but it was not usable. I think the main issue was that it was too easy to write to the wiki (if you do anything in Vim which writes the file, it gets written to the wiki). You really need to preview stuff because it is easy to mess up the simplest markup system. I also tried a couple of the edit with Vim schemes which invoke Vim when a web browser opens an edit window. I found them too klunky. Most of my wiki editing does occur in Vim, but I prefer to just copy/paste between a running Vim and the browser edit window. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: \ze position
Axel Bender wrote: Sorry, I was too unspecific. I want to use the \z[es] from the last match() to prevent searching for the same - complicated - expression two times (once with match() the second time with matchend()...). I forget the details, but I sweated blood working out how to avoid getting stuck using match(), and came to the conclusion that two calls are required. I believe this code is correct, and it may be of interest. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Copy_search_matches#GetMatches.28.29_alternative BTW my overflowing todo list includes that I will fix that tip. I have improved the code (which I use frequently), but even better is that newer Vims are able to use :s///n with a replacement expression to copy matches. The current tip has that technique, but it is absurdly convoluted because older Vims ignore the replacement expression if the n flag is used. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: windows x64 binaries
Hugo Ahlenius wrote: Is there some good spot where one can get updated Windows 64-bit binaries? I haven't tried it, but there is another site mentioned at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Download John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?
Steve Litt wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? Some ideas are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key I use the bizarre method on that page involving Enter (search for ToggleEnterMapping). It's really weird and it took a while to get used to it, but pressing Enter is so easy and natural when one wants to terminate a command that it is now second nature. I press Ctrl-Enter in gvim to insert a manual end line, or switch off the mapping with its procedure for that. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???
Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: Pasting text from a wikipedia articles leaves me with lots of I haven't looked at your images, but the problem is very likely to be due to use of an incorrect encoding. The first two lines in your vimrc should be: set nocompatible set encoding=utf-8 Saying should be is a bit of an over-generalisation, but it is sufficiently accurate for most cases. Does the problem still occur after restarting Vim with the above? John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???
Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: Humm...I was missing the encoding=utf-8 line but now--so now problem has not been solved. Now, instead of marks I get solid blocks--the size of a character. You need a font which supports the characters you are looking at. DejaVu Sans Mono is an example of a great and free font: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page There will still be lots of characters that are not supported by a particular font. Put the cursor on one of the solid-block characters and type ga to see its hex (and decimal) code. You can also type g8 to see the bytes used to represent that character in UTF-8. There will be a page somewhere with a list of typical Unicode characters and their hex codes, and you can copy/paste some into Vim to confirm that you are getting the text, and that your problem is therefore the font. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Our posts are being flagged as spam.
Erik Christiansen wrote: While looking in the spam folder, I found: ... But 99% of posts are not similarly mis-flagged I have previously noticed that Google sometimes flags good mail as spam when large quotes from an earlier message have not been removed. I have often seen that (although not recently) when Google moves a message to the pending queue of messages which need manager approval to be delivered to the list. That queue is intended for new members (who are banned if their post is spam), but it also holds messages from regular members if Google thinks the message may be spam. My preference would be for nearly all replies to have unnecessary quotebacks removed, and that would solve the major problem. There is no way we could influence Google's spam detection features, so it's something to be fixed either by the sender, or by a receiver somehow whitelisting the sender. John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Best practice on cleaning vimrc files
Malusi Gcakasi wrote: Secondly, what are the best practices for how a vimrc setup should be structured. Or are the details of this up to the individual user? It would be good if that were documented somewhere in a simple way. The following has some ideas. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Keep_your_vimrc_file_clean John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: mapping a function with key
rudrab wrote:
I am trying to put insrt_frame at the current cursor position
when F12 is pressed what should i do?
map F12: call insrt_frame()
fun! insrt_frame()
:put='\begin{frame}'
:put='\frametitle{Motivation}'
:put='\end{frame}'
endf
Here is the complete code. In normal mode, press F12 to insert
the three lines after the current line.
nnoremap F12 :call Insert_frame()CR
function! Insert_frame()
put='\begin{frame}'
put='\frametitle{Motivation}'
put='\end{frame}'
endfunction
John
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RE: Visual Mode Selection in Windows 7
Roy Fulbright wrote: I tried hjkl, but they lose the selection the same as the arrow keys. Please delete excessive text when replying. Don't quote a chain of previous messages, and make sure to delete email addresses. David Fishburn mentioned the two alternatives: (1) Press v then move cursor for character selection. (2) Press Ctrl-V (or Ctrl-Q if Ctrl-V used for paste) then move cursor for block selection. A third alternative is to press V for line selection. Like most regulars here I fixed up my vimrc file years ago and have forgotten exactly what a default Windows install does. The problem of the selection being lost when moving the cursor is probably due to settings in vimrc that make Vim's selection work like Notepad (and other Windows apps). In Notepad, moving the cursor without holding down Shift removes the selection. These are the problem lines: source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim behave mswin John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Script to send selected text from Vim to R in Ubuntu
Josef Montag wrote: I have started using Ubuntu and try to figure out ways and tools for a simple script. I use Vim to write code for R and need a script that takes a selection in Vim and sends it to R and have this script attached to a key combination. I'm not sure whether this could all be done in Vimscript or I should look elsewhere. An example using Python is here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_filter_commands_to_process_text To make a mapping of the command in the example, you could do: :vnoremap F8 !python sortwords.pyCR John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups vim_use group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: Yank part of line?
stosss wrote: This appears to be the only thing in help that seems to imply you can yank part of a line. But I can't figure out how to make that work. Am I wrong about this? Is the only way to yank part of a line in visual mode only or search and replace if one gets technical? (text from :help y) An example of what is wanted would help make sense of this. Do you mean in a script? Yank which part of a line (how defined)? In normal mode, you can of course move the cursor to somewhere within the line and type y$ to yank to the end, or y0 to yank to the beginning, and lots more things. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: vim_use in evolution(gnome)
Mats Bertil Tegner wrote: I generally read newsgroups in evolution. The server I use is eternal-september.org, that claims to provides free read and write access to all text newsgroups.. I can read others in google groups like in comp.lang.*. But vim_use is not there. Can anyone managed to subscribe vim_use in evolution/thunderbird? (I am not interested in RSS) Sending an email to vim-subscr...@vim.org should do the trick. No, only an individual can subscribe (and if someone managed to subscribe an external service that allowed anyone to post, I imagine that a manager would unsubscribe the sevice when the inevitable abuse occurred). The OP provided a quote about text newsgroups. However, this mailing list is a Google Group, and while Google pretended they were similar at one stage, in fact they are totally different because, among other things, most newsgroups are unmoderated. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Command history
Laskhara Singh wrote: How do I recall the keystrokes history? In Vim, a command history is a log of the Ex commands entered (those commands that with :, like :tabe or :help :tabe. As stated, you can see that history by typing q: See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_command-line_history I suspect you may have meant the weird keys you can type in normal mode that can sometimes do interesting things. There is no log of those keys. You could kludge a log by recording a macro, see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros Or you could use a command line argument when starting Vim, for example: gvim -w keylog.txt file.txt In the above, you are editing file.txt, and keys typed will be written to keylog.txt. I don't think either of these techniques would be helpful as what you really want to know is what were the last few keys I typed?, and that's not particularly easy to answer in a helpful manner. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: spam
The message (no subject) that I am replying to consisted of a single line which was a link to some website. It was almost certainly spam, and possibly malware, and almost certainly was spoofed (that is, the sender was NOT Tony). I have deleted the message from the Google Groups archive (but it will be archived in many other places), and am replying simply to alert people that we know it's spam, and all we can do is wait until Google adjusts their system to reject future attacks. Google has been MUCH better at rejecting spam in the last couple of months (managers see a greatly reduced level of spam attempts reaching the queue of messages needing approval to be posted, and we haven't had any spoofed spam for a long time). John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Spam from ad...@139.com
I have no idea why, but it appears that the spam from ad...@139.com to anyone who posts to vim_use has stopped. As I mentioned, I have emailed everyone who receives vim_use asking about the problem (in batches of 60 at a time). Thanks to those who responded. I unsubscribed 60 members since some of them were obvious spammers but had not been banned, while others had permanent mail errors (for example, quite a lot were from yahoo.com which replied that the account did not exist). I am not aware of doing anything that might have fixed the spam problem, but perhaps all the noise caused someone to notice. Please let me know if anyone receives a new spam from now on. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: regexp
Cesar Romani wrote:
If I have the following line:
a href=http://www.whatever.com;SomeTitle/a
How to create the file SomeTitle.txt with the content (without the
dashes):
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.whatever.com
With the cursor on the line, enter:
:s#a href=\(.\{-}\).\{-}/a#[InternetShortcut]\rURL=\1#
John
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RE: new spam-script uploaded to vim.org
jeroen wrote: This certainly looks like another script which can be classified as 'spam': http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4362 Thanks. All related material deleted. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: copy and replace with a slight modification a line several times
A Loumiotis wrote: function! Conva_d(linenr) let line = getline(a:linenr) let result = [] for i in [a,b,c,d] call add(result, substitute(line, 'x\(\w\)\@!','_' . i, 'g')) endfor call setline(a:linenr, result[0]) execute a:linenr . 'put =result[1:]' endfunction From something Ben mentioned, the line: execute a:linenr . 'put =result[1:]' is more cleanly written as: call append(a:linenr, result[1:]) John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: copy and replace with a slight modification a line several times
A Loumiotis wrote:
Starting with a file with two lines:
var1_$x; var2$x-1
var3x; var4x==1
I would like to end up with the following seven line file:
var1_1; var21-1
var1_2; var22-1
var1_3; var23-1
var3_a; var4_a==1
var3_b; var4_b==1
var3_c; var4_c==1
var3_d; var4_d==1
How could I automate this procedure?
Here is a start which converts the first line of input to the
first three lines of output:
function! Convert(linenr)
let line = getline(a:linenr)
let result = []
for i in range(1, 3)
call add(result, substitute(line, '\$x', i, 'g'))
endfor
call setline(a:linenr, result[0])
execute a:linenr . 'put =result[1:]'
endfunction
With the cursor on the first line of input, following converts
the first line:
:call Convert('.')
Or, if the first line to be converted is line 12, this works:
:call Convert(12)
I suspect a complex :s/// with replacement \=... could do the
job, but the script is more maintainable and useful for related
work.
For the second change required, see:
:help function-list
:help nr2char()
John
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RE: copy and replace with a slight modification a line several times
Ben Fritz wrote: ... call setline(.,[line,repl1,repl2,repl3]) There is a problem with that because four lines will be inserted into the buffer, and those lines will OVERWRITE existing lines. That's why my script used 'setline()' to replace the first line, and 'put' to insert the extra lines. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: vim insert mode injection
ping wrote:
I'm looking at a handy way to insert curr timestamp when
writing, right in insert mode
The tip for that is:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Insert_current_date_or_time
E15: Invalid expression: strftime('%c')^\eSNR113_WrapCmdLine()
Don't know about that, but enter the following to find script
113 (too many scripts!):
:scriptnames
John
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RE: Spam from ad...@139.com
This is an updated outline of the vim_use spam problem. Following some email exchanges, I am trying a few things to see if I can find a solution and may have more updates. The following uses -at- instead of @ so the Google Groups web interface will not hide the email addresses. It appears that every user who emails a message to the vim_use mailing list receives a junk mail from admin-at-139.com a few hours later. Each individual can defeat that by flagging the mail as spam so it is not seen in the future. However, the problem should be fixed because it is confusing and irritating for each new poster. It looks like the following happened: 1. Someone subscribed to vim_use. 2. They set their email to forward messages to number-at-139.com (where 'number' is a valid mobile phone number in China). 3. They stopped using the mobile number (around July 2012?). 4. Another person was issued the number but (fortunately for them), they have not activated the number to receive email. When a user emails a message to vim_use, Google Groups delivers that message to each member with the following in the header: From: Username user-at-example.com Reply-To: vim_use-at-googlegroups.com The 139.com mail system should use the Reply-To address, however they reply to the From: address to alert the sender that the recipient has not activated their email. This problem started around 9 July 2012. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
Spam from ad...@139.com
Does anyone have an archive of mail which includes the spam that we receive from ad...@139.com? I need to know when that spam started. I kept a few messages, and the earliest I have is 2012-07-09. Does anyone know of an earlier date? Or, can you say when it did NOT occur (that is, you posted to vim_use and did not receive the spam)? Knowing roughly when it started would allow me to guess which member needs to be unsubscribed to fix the problem (I would try emailing them first). As discussed recently [1], it appears that whenever someone posts a message to vim_use, the sender receives a junk mail from ad...@139.com a few hours later. It's easy to defeat that by flagging the mail as spam so it is not seen in the future. However, I would like to fix the problem because it is confusing and irritating for each new poster to have to deal with the problem. It looks like the following happened: 1. Someone subscribed to vim_use (say m...@example.com). 2. They set m...@example.com to forward to num...@139.com (NUMBER is a valid mobile phone number in China). 3. They stopped using NUMBER. 4. Another person recently was issued NUMBER and they know nothing about vim_use. A very helpful member of vim_use whom I emailed has sent a text message to NUMBER, which replied with point 4 above. If anyone has information about when this might have started, please reply here or email me. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/df4c6a23839627fa John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Email backscatter problem [was: Re: Is Vundle dead?]
Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Yes, the emails come from ad...@139.com, but they're on behalf of the 13657...@139.com subscriber (so `admin@` is akin to `postmaster@`). I just had another attempt at working out how the spam from ad...@139.com is being sent to each person who posts. As a manager of vim_use I have exported the current subscriber list which shows email address, nickname, time joined, delivery method The only entry matching the pattern \139\ shows an email address of the form (the j.smith is made up): j.smith.139 -at- gmail.com Three other entries match pattern 139: 1. long user name, mostly digits -at- n5.nabble.com 2. user name of digits -at- qq.com 3. A gmail.com user with 139 in nickname. No entries match pattern 1365 (my mail has a couple of mailto links with target 13657854020 -at- 139.com). Google translate shows this for a spam message: When you send mail, the mailbox has not been activated. We have to send the SMS notification Ta activation mailbox, check your e-mail. As of when you receive this message, you activate and read the letter sent to the following email as follows: ... Perhaps it is a subscriber using a system that forwards mail to a 139.com address, or a broken attempt to mirror the vim_use mailing list inside China, or some scam. If anyone has some ideas for how to remove this irritation, or any further checking I might do, please post here or direct to me. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: UP_CASE_VARIABLE to UpCaseVariable
Waters, Bill wrote: Does anyone have a plugin or clever substitution that will convert from an all upper case variable (UP_CASE_VARIABLE) to a camel-case variable (UpCaseVariable), and vice versa? Some suggestions are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Converting_variables_to_or_from_camel_case John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: UP_CASE_VARIABLE to UpCaseVariable
David Fishburn wrote: Some suggestions are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Converting_variables_to_or_from_camel_case I am surprised that didnt reference the keepcase.vim script which I think is great. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=6 That script is mentioned at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_and_replace#Special_cases If someone could describe how it helps with regard to converting variables to/from camel case, that could be added to the first tip above. Example commands with a brief statement of what they do is best. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: shiftround option
rail shafigulin wrote: I'm still no quite clear. So when I set shiftround it moves the code by the length of shiftwidth-1 when I use the or ? The way to think of it is this: If you have :set noshiftround, after adjusting an indent you may find that the indents are NOT aligned at the standard positions. The standard positions are those you would get after indenting text that originally had no indent. If you have :set shiftround, after adjusting an indent, the indent will be aligned at a standard position (the indent is rounded to a multiple of the 'shiftwidth' option). John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: capture to file output of :set all?
Erik wrote: Thanks, but: :help :redir E433: No tags file E149: Sorry, no help for :redir If your help was working, you could use: :help :helptags to see: To rebuild the help tags in the runtime directory (requires write permission there): :helptags $VIMRUNTIME/doc Found help here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Capture_ex_command_output Then got: E475: Invalid argument: @a If the following (from the tip) fails, I guess your Vim is broken: :redir @a :set all :redir END What does :version show (just the version number and patches would be a start)? John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Mappings, no idea how to use.
stosss wrote: I did not create this. I have no idea how this works or what key strokes trigger it. Can someone help me understand how to use it? It looks like there are two or three mappings below. Does it go in the .vimrc or somewhere else? The first extract you posted comes from: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_for_visually_selected_text which was mentioned along with your second extract here: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/6f7b894aa05c5bb7 In the latter, I mentioned that the code is from my vimrc, and included some usage examples. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: floating problem of eval()
oversky wrote:
:echo eval('1/2')
0
As Danny mentioned, that is not strange as Vim follows the same
concepts as used in the C language (and others) where 1 is an
integer, but 1.0 (both without quotes) is a floating point
number.
You get the same in Python 2.7, where 1/2 also evaluates as 0.
You don't need eval:
:echo 1.0/2
gives
0.5
If you have numbers as strings in variables, you could convert
them to floats like this:
:let n = 1
:let d = 2
:echo str2float(n)/str2float(d)
which gives 0.5.
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RE: Contacting Vim Tips Wiki Admin JohnBeckett
Suresh Govindachar wrote: Hello JohnBeckett, Regarding your comments to http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Mappings_to_facilitate_the_creation_of_text please see the recent (within past 22 hours) emails in the thread Commands from insert mode. See also http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Quick_command_in_insert_mode The vim_use discussion is: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/ab736b5a399312de Sorry to have been dismissive in my comment last April at the wiki. It looks like there are two strong points of view on the topic, with some wanting to reconfigure Vim so as to avoid normal mode, with others not seeing the point of that. I cannot imagine a group of lawyers using Vim (unless they happen to be familiar with Vim). The fundamental problem is that if someone has trouble going to normal mode to navigate or massage text, they will get into trouble when they accidentally trigger some feature of Vim that confuses them. At any rate, I would like the tip fixed so the concerns raised by Fritzophrenic (who added the dodgy tag) are addressed. Then we could add a note saying that some people like avoiding normal mode, and some don't, and we could remove the comments and other old stuff from the page. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Contacting Vim Tips Wiki Admin JohnBeckett
You have misunderstood the issue. No one is attempting to reconfigure vim in any way. No one is attempting to avoid the normal mode. It is just that while in insert mode, there is often a need to do something quick in normal mode and get back to insert mode -- the creator of Vim himself recognized this need and provided the feature of i_ctrl-o (:help i_ctrl-o). The mappings merely enhance Vim's built in feature of i_ctrl-o. Good, but the tip needs to have a few explanations for people such as myself who misunderstand it. Also, a brief outline of the internals would be good. I'm thinking of the following: The fundamental mapping that makes full-screen editing possible imap A-o C-o imap A-; C-o: I do not see the name Fritzophrenic on the wiki page in question. By the concerns raised by Fritzophrenic (who added the dodgy tag) do you mean the following?: Not enough explanation. What is the purpose of each set of mappings, and what do they accomplish? What problem is being solved? Yes. After clicking history at the top of the page at http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Mappings_to_facilitate_the_creation_of_text it is possible to work out that Fritzophrenic added that tag in August 2009 (Fritzophrenic has a user page telling people he is Ben Fritz, a frequent contributor here). John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Question regarding 'diffput' 'diffget'
meino.cramer wrote: at my work and at home I often I use vimdiff -- its simply great! If there is a change in one of the files, which is missing in the other file and you want to add the difference to the other file, you can diffput the stuff while the cursor is in the according lines. On the other side there is also a diffget which should work from the other files' side. But how can I move the cursor on the non-existing lines? Put the cursor on the line just after the non-existing lines, then type (in normal mode) do (diff obtain = :diffget). Or, in the other window, put the cursor on the existing lines, then type dp (dp = :diffput). John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Replacing current line with last-yanked register
Ben Fritz wrote: The best example that comes to mind: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Short_mappings_for_common_tasks There's also this, which I've never really liked but seems to get a lot of traffic: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Best_Vim_Tips Best_Vim_Tips is an older version of Zapper's tips mentioned in another post (with edits at the wiki). I added the idea here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Repeat_last_change although I was also thinking of putting it in the following (and making it more generic than just replacing a word): http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Replace_a_word_with_yanked_text John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Vim + debugger for Python?
Shay wrote: After 39 years of doing things the hard way, I'm committed to trying the easy way. For Python, I've been experimenting with WingIDE, but am having a hard time getting used to the loss of editor functionality. I'm using the WingIDE vim personality, but WingIDE is not a dedicated text editor and cannot approach vim in that respect. I am not a serious Python programmer, but I do enough to make a purchase of the personal WingIDE worthwhile. I find it is easiest to just edit in Vim, then if things go bad, run Wing to find a bug. I switch back to Vim (Alt-Tab), edit, then switch back to Wing, which reloads the source with no fuss, and carry on. Not very clever, but it works. I also use 'ctags *.py' to make a tags file every now and then. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: OT: The so called steep learning curve of vim...
Marc Weber wrote: Try Win + R - regedit click on any folder - File export - save as .reg file. Then you have a binary format which you can open in Vim but which is unreadable for humans. Notepad decodes it. On Windows (or most systems for that matter), your vimrc should probably start with the following two lines: set nocompatible set encoding=utf-8 And, there should be nothing which sets fenc or fencs (the 'fileencoding' and 'fileencodings' options). You might have something to set fencs, but the defaults have been sufficient for my modest needs. With the above, Vim can correctly read a .reg file. After the file is open, the following command shows that the .reg file has file encoding utf-16le: :set fenc? John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: colorschemer release upload failure
richard emberson wrote: I am trying to upload the first release of what I call colorschemer http://www.vim.org/scripts/add_script_version.php?script_id=4240 ... Now, the colorschemer.zip file is a rather big file: 3.5M. Would that prevent me from uploading it? I don't know about any technical limitations, but is a 3.5M zip file really a Vim script? There are people who routinely download new scripts and have a look at them from interest. They will get a surprise when they find themselves looking at an unzipped file of several megabytes. If I understand the situation, your zip is a collection of all colorscheme scripts from vim.org, with some tool for viewing them? Similar ideas have been tried in the past, but I think there are far too many colorschemes for anyone to evaluate. That's particularly the case when many of them are merely a minor variation on another scheme, and many are somewhat broken. It might be more helpful for someone to do an evaluation for what is good on a system of a certain type, and provide a preview of, say, fifty of the best schemes. See the links at the following for how that has been attempted: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Switch_color_schemes John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: spam scripts on vim.org
Bram Moolenaar wrote: I think some spamscript were posted to vim.org yesterday: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4236 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4235 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4234 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4233 ... Thanks for reporting. I deleted the user, the created scripts and the uploaded files. Let me know if you spot more. Amazing. I have been checking vim.org twice a day for months and nothing bad has happened for a long time (the last spam I deleted was scripts 4107, 4108 in June). Now I goofed off for 24 hours and this happens! John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: spam scripts on vim.org
Charles Campbell [I think!] wrote: I admit that I don't know how to do this, but perhaps the anti-spam scheme for the mail-list (all new posters need to be approved by our elite, hardworking, and underpaid group of moderators, and, after approval, posters would have ready access) could be usefully applied to vim.org's list. I have pondered about a system of moderating stuff at vim.org (I was thinking of a system that tells a new user they can't create more than two scripts or two uploads for two days, or until approved ... and some other complications). But in reality, there is not enough spam to warrant any messing around. The last spam I deleted was script 4108 last June, and Bram just deleted 4233, so that's pretty infrequent, and in both cases the spam did not last long. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: Create a 1,000,000 byte file with VIM.
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I am trying to create a 1,000,000 byte file with VIM. The
following has VIM using 100% of _both_ my CPUs (Intel
DuoCore) for almost two hours before I killed it:
iaesc100.
Vim is for editing text, not performing arbitrary operations.
One problem with the above (on a normal Vim, if no special
commands have been entered first), is that Vim will try to
maintain an undo list.
Nevertheless, it is possible to have Vim quickly write a file
consisting of a single line of one million 'a' characters:
:call writefile([repeat('a', 100)], 'a.tmp', 'b')
The 'b' option (binary) means there is no newline at the end.
Omit , 'b' if a newline is wanted.
John
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RE: problems with gf
David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: I use gf heavily to edit the file under the cursor. I am working on some projects with filenames that contain characters like [ and ] that are not handled by the gf command. As well as tweaking 'isfname' as Tim mentioned, you might experiment with visually selecting the file name, then typing gf. Possibly in your application you could devise a convenient way to do that. John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
RE: moving tab pages using maps
Marcin Szamotulski wrote: It is possible and quite easy: map A-S-j :tabm +1CR map A-S-k :tabm -1CR I don't think that would work. A mapping to move the current tab is included here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Using_tab_pages John -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
