Re: A question for developers

2009-08-21 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 17 August 2009 04:14:18 Steve Bertrand wrote: Manish Jain wrote: You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: You are right. Syntax highlighting only works well with X. On the console, to the best of knowledge, there is no way to change the colours through vim's rc files. Syntax colour changing does work via .vimrc on the console. The constructs are named differently: ctermfg,

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. That's

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Henry Olyer
Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Mel Flynn

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:49:17 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: Look, use Joe. You won't ever want anything else -- you'll soon forget about meta-escape-alt-@ while holding down the esc-tab-plus key, all the while wishing you had three hands. That's not a very good way of

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: There *are* good points about joe, eg.:   - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals.   - It has a very small footprint   -

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:08:52 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: There *are* good points about joe, eg.: - It works very well even with pretty dumb terminals. - It has a very small footprint - It supports many features a `coder' expects (auto indentation,

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: I'm looking for a new editor. Well, after a two week hiatus from technology, I'm back at work (actually, considering I build a large new deck, being back at work is more of a holiday than being on holidays :) Although it was recommended that I give both Emacs and Vi(m) a

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: but may be handy until I become more fluent, as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-11 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 16:46:16 Steve Bertrand wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: but may be handy until I become more fluent, as my first instinct is to hit the BACKSPACE ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ^h key. terminal emulation fault. stty erase ctrl-vctrl-h should fix it, on the shell that is. --

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-03 Thread Karl Vogel
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca said: S I'm looking for a new editor. [...] In the last few weeks, I've been S leaning toward vim. If you've read this far, then I very much welcome S your feedback. If you're a VIM fan, here are a few examples of what

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: I'm looking for a new editor. I went on a similar journey, and I don't know if I'm already where I want to be, but maybe my path is helpful to you. My desires/don't mind: - easily set tab width mcedit: PF9,

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, let me answer very shortly. On 25 July 2009 am 10:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: Forgive the verbosity. I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. All have their week points. One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can configure each to a special need of you and then start the one

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Erich Dollansky wrote: let me answer very shortly. [..snip..] ee is really just useful for very basic editing. But this is the idea behind ee. I'd like to thank everyone for all of the well thought out, detailed and informative feedback. As far as ee, it's all I've really used for the last

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: I use joe, gedit, kate and bluefish. All have their week points. One advantage of using several in parallel is that you can configure each to a special need of you and then start the one which seems to fit best your

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:46:14AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: In years gone by, I've toyed with both Emacs and vi. I'm no stranger to using CNTL functions frequently (ee), but I've always felt more at home with vi. I just never put in the initial effort to make it stick. I'm going to give

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:49:05 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:21:44PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: joe has also the advantage that it behaves differently depending under which name your start it. What do you mean by which name? I'm curious.

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:49:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if

A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Forgive the verbosity. Before anything else, I'd appreciate it if my requirements were actually read before providing any feedback. I know that there are qualified persons here to legitimately answer my question, so if a flame war does ensue, I ask that you refrain from responding. I'm looking

Re: A question for developers

2009-07-24 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 24 July 2009 18:49:10 Steve Bertrand wrote: Forgive the verbosity. Forgiven, yet snipped ;) My desires/don't mind: - easily set tab width See securemodelines.vim below sig. Put in $LOCALBASE/share/vim/vim72/plugin. And the modeline below in C-style comments, within the first or