Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-21 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 07:37:57PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:25:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: | > The problem with using TERM=xterm on Solaris is that all you get is | > bold and underlines for "highlighting" because programs will think | > your terminal

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-20 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 06:25:57PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > | really? i've been beating my head against this for a while now, and > | have to date only managed to get dark-blue-and-pink syntax > | highlighting on th

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-20 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Wed, 20 Nov 2002 11:44:22AM -0600, Andy Wettstein insinuated: > This works for me in .bashrc on solaris 8: > > if [ `uname` = "SunOS" ]; then > export TERM=xtermc > fi exporting TERM to be xtermc doesn't seem to do anything here. > i Compiled vim with ncurses5, not the sun curse

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: | really? i've been beating my head against this for a while now, and | have to date only managed to get dark-blue-and-pink syntax | highlighting on the Suns i work on ... exporting TERM=dtterm doesn't | seem to do much, either. do

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-20 Thread Andy Wettstein
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:15:20PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > | since Solaris never seems to understand my remote terminal well > > | enough to allow sy

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-17 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:15:20PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > | since Solaris never seems to understand my remote terminal well > | enough to allow syntax highlighting. Does anyone know how to fix > | that? :) > > export

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:26:43PM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > I can't really comment on emacs other than the fact that when I have > large chunk of time open, I'll try to learn it. I forced myself to > learn vim when I first started using Linux by using it to write mail. > Emacs is a little hef

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-17 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Rob VanFleet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021115 23:26]: > > moreover, i have spell, ispell and aspell installed. is there a way i > > can use them while in vi? > > If the file has been saved, just run > > :!ispell % > > I think there is a way to spell check an unsaved file, but I can't > recall it a

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Tim St. Croix
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:17:28 +1100, you wrote: > "remove .sig from messages I am replying to >au BufRead /tmp/mutt* normal :g/^| -- $/,/^$/-1dgg > I got that line about >removing the .sig from someone on here, but it doesn't actually seem to >work... I'm not sure but it looks like you're l

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. Try vim: VI iMproved. It has all sorts of nifty extras. > one is managing words towards end of li

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 01:12 PM -0500): > This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > > > one is managing words t

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:03:34PM -0600, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > I've used vi for at least 14 years now, I switched to emacs for > "heavy" editing about 10 years ago. But you *must* know vi if you ever > want to be real Unix user. Learn it. You will be rewarded. That is the > only reason I don't u

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:59:17PM -0800, nate wrote: | You can test this by typing several lines, then going back to | command mode () and scroll up and down the file, it will | scroll one line at a time, if it jumps 2-3 lines at once, that is | just 1 really long line. Actually, if you use a ma

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Osamu" == Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Osamu> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh Osamu> wrote: >> >> one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards >> the end of the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither >> hyphanate

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:05:38AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: | On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:30:09PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: | > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: | > no. someone asked me t

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > of the line, it juts cuts the word. i

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:30:09PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hello all > > > > > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the e

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-16 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hello all > > > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > > of the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither hyphanates nor pushes >

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:24:27AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > :map! longhash 60i#o > > The above creates a macro that prints 60 "#" characters when you type > the word 'longhash'. The  is Control-v,Esc to simulate going into Actually, 'simulate' was a poor choice of word on my part. It *d

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > of the line, it juts cu

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:59:17PM -0800, nate wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh said: > > hello all > > > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread nate
Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of > the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither hyphanates nor pushes

Re: vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 12:18:11PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all > > i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - > 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. > > one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end > of the line, it juts cu

vi as a text editor

2002-11-15 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all i have recently started using vi and i like it for its simplicity - 'clean-ness'. somethings are missing though. one is managing words towards end of line. as i type, towards the end of the line, it juts cuts the word. it neither hyphanates nor pushes it to the next line. is there w