Re: Inserting text of arbitrary length before rectangular region

2020-03-06 Thread Gerard Lally
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 21:02, Marc Simpson wrote: > > I'd go the traditional vi route, > > :.,/Tom/s/^/Name of applicant: > > Or if the range wasn't so straightforwardly expressible, you could > mark the first and last lines first (e.g. ma, mb), then > > :'a,'b/^/Name of applicant:

Re: Inserting text of arbitrary length before rectangular region

2020-03-06 Thread Gerard Lally
vile's potential is, and indeed I'm more interested to see the various workarounds, since they tell me more about vile than a canned solution would. Gerard Lally

Inserting text of arbitrary length before rectangular region

2020-03-05 Thread Gerard Lally
hen do c^S and at the prompt I enter "Name of applicant: " (without quotation marks), but only the first letter N is entered. Have I misunderstood what should happen here? Thank you. Gerard Lally

xvile as external editor for Joplin

2021-04-01 Thread Gerard Lally
formula! Tested on Slackware 14.2 and -current, and also on Debian -testing. All fully patched, and vile + xvile installed from Slackbuilds / Debian repos. Gerard Lally

Re: xvile as external editor for Joplin

2021-04-04 Thread Gerard Lally
Thank you, Thomas. xvile -fork does the trick. So does xterm -e vile. What confused me a little was that I was entering vile in Joplin's "Text Editor" box where I should have entered xterm instead. -e vile of course goes in the "Arguments" box, not the editor box. Thanks

Markdown syntax file

2022-01-04 Thread Gerard Lally
Does anyone have a Markdown syntax file available? Preferably with MultiMarkdown support.

Re: Markdown syntax file

2022-01-04 Thread Gerard Lally
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 04:49:42PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:39:12PM +0000, Gerard Lally wrote: > > Does anyone have a Markdown syntax file available? Preferably with > > MultiMarkdown support. > > I don't think so. Referring to > >

Re: Markdown syntax file

2022-01-04 Thread Gerard Lally
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:35:18PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 11:10:51PM +0000, Gerard Lally wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 04:49:42PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:39:12PM +, Gerard Lally wrote: > > > &g