Re: macro question

2024-04-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Apr 06, 2024 at 07:21:33PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 at 16:09, david sowerby wrote: > > Hi, in Vim/Neovim I can save a copy of the file when I exit. The copy is > > renamed file-$(date +%s).bak. This gives me a file with an increasing > > number plus .bak. It

Re: macro question

2024-04-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 08:01:01PM +, david sowerby wrote: > Hi, in Vim/Neovim I can save a copy of the file when I exit. The copy is > renamed file-$(date +%s).bak. This gives me a file with an increasing number > plus .bak. It looks like "date+%s" and "" do the same thing. Is this >

Re: searching for ascii/non-ascii

2024-03-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 12:07:16PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > I often want to clean up the residue you sometimes get when copying > text from a web page -- bits of unicode, or special characters, like > the "\?B0" my screen uses to show the "degrees" symbols in this line: > Start Totality

Re: Weird problem in xvile - I can't enter a '>' character

2024-03-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 09:11:32AM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 02:25:59PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 at 02:28, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > If I comment out the line:- > > > > > > keysym period = period rightcaret U25B6 NoSymbol > > > > > >

Re: Weird problem in xvile - I can't enter a '>' character

2024-03-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:16:08AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > chris wrote: > > I don't use xvile all that much, I use vile in a terminal window most > > of the time, however I do sometimes find I need to use xvile. > > > > I've just found that the > character doesn't work in xvile. This > >

Re: .ini files and DOS line endings

2024-03-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 09:58:26AM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > Never mind. I figured it out. > > I copied the "ini" mode definition from modes.rc into my .vilerc, and > changed it to remove the ".ini" file suffix from its list. The file > now comes up in conf mode. that works. I'd have just done

Re: Slackbuild URL

2024-03-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 06:00:24PM -0500, lists-vile--- via discussions concerning the vile text editor wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:08:11AM -0500, lists-vile--- via discussions > > concerning the vile text editor wrote: > > > Thomas, >

Re: Slackbuild URL

2024-03-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 11:08:11AM -0500, lists-vile--- via discussions concerning the vile text editor wrote: > Thomas, > > On the mail vile page, https://www.invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html, the > Slackbuild that is referenced is out of date. You can ensure that the page > links to the

ANN: vile-9.8z

2024-01-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
Files: https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8z.tgz https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8z.tgz.asc https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/MD5sums https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/vile-9.8z.patch.gz

Re: Build errors on Centos Stream Release 9

2023-12-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 11:32:15AM -0500, Brian O'Shea wrote: > Has anybody successfully built on Centos 9? actually I hadn't done anything with Centos 9 (had looked at upgrading a Centos 8 Stream to Centos 9 early this year, but -- on VirtualBox 6 -- found that didn't work). however... a new

Re: Encoding translation error on macOS Sonoma 14.2

2023-12-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > >> LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > >> LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > >> LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > >> LC_ALL= > >> > >> However, as I showed above, even explicitly setting LC_ALL has no effect: >

Re: Encoding translation error on macOS Sonoma 14.2

2023-12-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "David Snyder" | To: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2023 7:51:46 PM | Subject: Encoding translation error on macOS Sonoma 14.2 | After upgrading to macOS Sonoma 14.2 (MacBook Pro with Apple M1 Pro | processor), I can't seem to get vile to

Re: How to access vile variables in : command?

2023-11-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 03:51:37PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I'm sure this should be obvious but at the moment it's not obvious to > me! :-) > > I want to do something like the following:- > > map #9 :e `pdf $cfilname`^M > > However the above doesn't work, $cfilname is null in the above >

Re: Can one build a static vile easily?

2023-07-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 10:44:09AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Is there any way to build a 'static' version of vile fairly easily? > ... or a way to create something like an appimage? a "static" version would include the C runtime (and curses/termcap/whatever), which is a lot of work. Without

Re: What do these entries in 'show-commands' mean?

2023-05-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Chris Green" | To: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2023 5:05:22 AM | Subject: What do these entries in 'show-commands' mean? | In the 'show-commands' output there are entries like the following:- | | "edit-file" ^X-e | or

Re: What actually are hypertext commands in vile?

2023-05-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 02:01:41PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > While, just now, mucking about in my .vilerc I saw the hypertext macro > that has been there for ages (copied from help):- > > 22 store-macro > ~force execute-hypertext-command > ~if $status > ~force

Re: Closing completed files when editing many

2023-03-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 05:20:06AM +, James Haggerty wrote: > Hi, > > One of the things I usually do with editors is go through a number of > files making related edits. e.g. > > vile a.c b.c c.c > > I would have assumed the natural way to do this in vile would be to > remove the

Re: Lsp client

2023-03-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 07:31:50PM +0100, Thomas Gustafsson wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone developed a Language Server Protocol client in vile? In such a > case, which lsp servers has it been tested against? If not, would it be > possible to develop an lsp client in vile? I'm not aware of

Re: Vileserv on macOS issue

2023-01-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 03:56:13AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 03:08:48PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 09:33, Robert Sturrock wrote: > > > read(0x4, "/Users/rns/tmp/fortune-cookie.txt\n\n\0", 0x2000)

ANN: vile-9.8y

2023-01-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
Files: https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8y.tgz https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8y.tgz.asc https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/MD5sums https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/vile-9.8y.patch.gz

Re: However accented characters are still rather broken

2023-01-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 08:33:05PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 03:27:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 11:23:54AM +, Chris Green wrote: > > > So, after partially understanding the syntax highlighting issue I now >

Re: Vileserv on macOS issue

2023-01-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 03:08:48PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 09:33, Robert Sturrock wrote: > > read(0x4, "/Users/rns/tmp/fortune-cookie.txt\n\n\0", 0x2000) = > > 35 0 > > write(0x1, "/Users/rns/tmp/fortune-cookie.txt\n\n\n\0", 0x24)= > > 36 0 >

Re: However accented characters are still rather broken

2023-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 03:27:20PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 11:23:54AM +, Chris Green wrote: > > So, after partially understanding the syntax highlighting issue I now > > see that entering accented characters is still broken. > > > > A

Re: Start again with syntax highlighting problem

2023-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Gary Jennejohn" | To: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Monday, January 2, 2023 3:02:03 PM | Subject: Re: Start again with syntax highlighting problem | On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 14:17:43 -0500 | Thomas Dickey wrote: | |> On Mon, Jan 02, 2

Re: However accented characters are still rather broken

2023-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 11:23:54AM +, Chris Green wrote: > So, after partially understanding the syntax highlighting issue I now > see that entering accented characters is still broken. > > As reported a while ago vile 9.8v gets confused when you try to enter > accented characters (I use a

Re: Start again with syntax highlighting problem

2023-01-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 02, 2023 at 10:45:14AM +, Chris Green wrote: > OK, restart, I think I now see a pattern in this. I completely > removed and re-installed vile from the Ubuntu repositories on esprimo > and it is now working correctly there. I had modified it there > because of the issue a while

Re: Syntax colour highlighting problem - not working on some of my systems

2023-01-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 08:02:31PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 06:13:07PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > The eternal problem > > > > On just *some* of my several Linux systems colour syntax higlighting > > isn't working. It always used to work but I really can't see

ANN: vile-9.8x

2022-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
Files: https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8x.tgz https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8x.tgz.asc https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/MD5sums https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/vile-9.8x.patch.gz

Re: Build errors at link time - what am I missing?

2022-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Chris Green" | To: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 6:42:39 PM | Subject: Re: Build errors at link time - what am I missing? | On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:32:59PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: |> On Wed, Nov 30, 2

Re: Build errors at link time - what am I missing?

2022-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:26:07PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 08:20:53PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm trying to build vile-9.8 on a Debian system where I have a shared > > hosting account with ssh access. > > > > I'm doing "./configure --prefix=$HOME" and it runs OK

Re: Always get two windows when using -c

2022-11-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 09:55:18PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 03:40:43PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 08:11:17PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:55:07AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > >

Re: Always get two windows when using -c

2022-11-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 08:11:17PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 10:55:07AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 01:57:30PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > > This relates to my recent posting about trying to use the '-c' command > >

Re: Always get two windows when using -c

2022-11-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 01:57:30PM +, Chris Green wrote: > This relates to my recent posting about trying to use the '-c' command > line option. However it's now a more general problem/question. > > Whenever I add a '-c command' (or a '+ command', or a '-g NNN') to the > command line vile

Re: vile source links

2022-10-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 01:42:21PM +, Wayne Cuddy via discussions concerning the vile text editor wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:42:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 06:20:40PM +, Wayne Cuddy via discussions > > concerning the vile te

Re: vile source links

2022-10-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 06:20:40PM +, Wayne Cuddy via discussions concerning the vile text editor wrote: > On the vile download page: > > https://www.invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html#download > > The links for the source downloads: > >

Re: A somewhat off-topic question about ncurses and wrapping long lines

2022-10-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Oct 02, 2022 at 09:22:03AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 06:35:26PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 10:01:00AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > Well it's not entirely off topic, it's about something that works as > > &g

Re: A somewhat off-topic question about ncurses and wrapping long lines

2022-10-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 10:01:00AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Well it's not entirely off topic, it's about something that works as > I'd expect it to in vile (and less) but doesn't work right in mutt (my > E-Mail program of choice). > > The issue is about how long chunks of text, with no spaces

Re: package/freebsd/*vile content is for 9.8v rather than for 9.8w

2022-08-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 04:09:17PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:48:21PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > I tried to build {,x}vile9.8w for FreeBSD using what's under > > package/freebsd, > > but all the files are for 9.8v. > > >

ANN: vile-9.8w

2022-08-21 Thread Thomas Dickey
Files: https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8w.tgz https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/current/vile-9.8w.tgz.asc https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/MD5sums https://invisible-island.net/archives/vile/patches/vile-9.8w.patch.gz

Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure with Perl 5.36

2022-08-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 06:44:58PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 15:12:27 +1000 > Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > > Fix a build failure for Perl 5.36 caused by a namespace conflict of > > the symbol `regexp' (http://bugs.debian.org/1014289). > > I've tested this fix on my (Fedora)

Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

2022-08-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
> --bod > > On Sat, 30 Jul 2022 at 00:00, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:27:05AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > > > Testing the vile 9.8v-2 package on my Debian machine I get som

Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

2022-08-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:27:05AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > Testing the vile 9.8v-2 package on my Debian machine I get some decidedly > > odd behaviour: > > > > The following sequence: > > &g

Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

2022-07-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Testing the vile 9.8v-2 package on my Debian machine I get some decidedly > odd behaviour: > > The following sequence: > > l- e' c, > > is rendered in vile as: > > \?A3\?E9\?E7 > > outside of vile, in the same terminal that

Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

2022-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 10:27:05PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > ... and further, no compose key sequences work in vile 9.8v whereas > they do work in vile 9.8u. > > E.g. I can't enter accented characters using COMPOSE + e + ' (for e > with acute accent) or COMPOSE + c + , (for c with a cedilla).

Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

2022-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 09:21:52PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Further information... > > I've built vile 9.7 on this system and pound signs work correctly, if > I build vile 9.8 with the same build environment pound signs don't work. That's a fairly long timespan, since I started 9.8 in 2010.

Re: UTF8 has stopped working in vile after OS upgrade

2022-07-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 11:54:54AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I just upgraded my systems from xubuntu 21.10 to xubuntu 22.04. I don't know about "xubuntu", but Ubuntu 22.04 doesn't seem an improvement. > My UTF8 confiuguration in vile and xvile is broken now. > > Well, entering pound

Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure with Perl 5.36

2022-07-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 03:12:27PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Fix a build failure for Perl 5.36 caused by a namespace conflict of > the symbol `regexp' (http://bugs.debian.org/1014289). ... I suppose I'll have to put out a 9.8w in the next few weeks, once Perl 5.36 becomes more widespread. In

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete gcc pragma

2022-07-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 02:20:15PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Remove a pragma from perl.xs which gcc no longer recognises. > > This pragma was meant to reduce noise, but now adds more. Compiling > with gcc 11 produces: That's a recent change, from December. My checkin comment says quiet

Re: sh-mode highlight issue

2022-01-31 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 03:20:14PM +, Wayne Cuddy via discussions concerning the vile text editor wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 03:45:15PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 04:09:09PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 07:51

Re: sh-mode highlight issue

2022-01-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 04:09:09PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 07:51:53PM +, Wayne Cuddy via discussions > concerning the vile text editor wrote: > > I'm not sure if this has been reported before, please forgive me if > > this is repetitious. &g

Re: sh-mode highlight issue

2022-01-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 07:51:53PM +, Wayne Cuddy via discussions concerning the vile text editor wrote: > I'm not sure if this has been reported before, please forgive me if > this is repetitious. > > I'm running 9.8t and have not had a chance to upgrade to the > latest/greatest yet but I

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Perl6 is now known as raku.

2022-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 09:46:17PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Update modes and filters to use "raku" over "perl6". Extensions as per: > > > https://github.com/Raku/problem-solving/blob/master/solutions/language/Path-to-Raku.md#extensions > > are matched, as are the previous ".p6", ".pl6",

Re: 9.8v/shared/vile/perl6.keywords should be "raku.keywords.

2022-01-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 03:47:48PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > > Simplest fix is probably a symlink in the tarball. I'd just copy/paste the definition for perl6 mode from filters.rc, rename that to rakumode, and add filtername 'vile-perl-filt -k perl6' -- Thomas E. Dickey

Re: Retaining Vile 'state' over close/open?

2022-01-16 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 10:27:39AM -0500, George Eccles wrote: > I am currently using vile 9.7 32-bit. (It does what I need, and 9.81(?) > seemed to change the 'go to mark' in a way that I couldn't figure out, so I > just stuck.) > > Anyway, on my new(er) Win10 PC, the 'hibernate' function is

Re: Markdown syntax file

2022-01-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 11:10:51PM +, 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: > > > Does anyone have a Markdown syntax file available? Preferably with > >

Re: Markdown syntax file

2022-01-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 09:39:12PM +, Gerard Lally wrote: > Does anyone have a Markdown syntax file available? Preferably with > MultiMarkdown support. I don't think so. Referring to https://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ it says that's a superset of markdown. vile's "txt" mode can be

ANN: vile-9.8v

2021-12-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
The current version of vile is 9.8v It's available at https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/ https://invisible-mirror.net/archives/vile/ Files: ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/current/vile-9.8v.tgz

Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting

2021-07-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Chris Green" | To: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 5:40:03 PM | Subject: Re: Dianosing lack of colour highlighting | On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:20:38PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: |> Well I have vile running OK on my phone running termux

Re: Has anyone tried compiling vile in termux?

2021-07-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 04:17:43PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 04:04:38PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > u0_a166@bison$ ./vile > > Bad system call > > > OK, a quick web search has found a solution, it runs OK in a chroot > environment:- > > u0_a166@bison$

Re: xvile as external editor for Joplin

2021-04-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
instead. > > -e vile of course goes in the "Arguments" box, not the editor box. > > Thanks again. no problem (report bugs) > Gerard Lally > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 23:51, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:49:57PM +01

Re: xvile as external editor for Joplin

2021-04-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:49:57PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote: > Hi. > > It is possible to edit notes in the Joplin notes app using an external > editor. Unfortunately, xvile freezes when I try to do so. > > joplinapp dot org > > No cursor, scrollbar or menus appear either. How to start

Re: scrolling/paging question

2021-03-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 04:28:33PM +, Wayne wrote: > I'm working with some wide files in vile. 600+ characters-per-line > with nolinewrap enabled. > > If the cursor is positioned several hundred characters into a line I can > use the j/k keys to scroll through the lines without the screen >

Re: The vileget calling code in .vilerc

2021-02-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Feb 07, 2021 at 03:44:40PM +, Chris Green wrote: > In my .vilerc that I use on several systems I have the following > towards the end:- > > ; > ; > ; Add a reStructuredText mode > ; > ; define-mode rst > ; map! ; : > ; map! : ; > ; ~with define-submode rst > ; suf '\.rst$' > ;

Re: insert-string garbling characters

2021-01-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
gt; For foo3.rc (⇩) > > I: inserts ⇩ > J: inserts ⇩ > M: inserts ⇩ > K: Turns ⇩ into â\x87© > > After using K; I and M insert â\x87©, J inserts é > > Regards, > Thomas > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > Le mercredi, décembre 2,

Re: insert-string garbling characters

2020-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 04:18:48AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 02:06:40PM +, Thomas Dupond wrote: > > Thank you very much for your fast reply and this small patch. > > I downloaded version 9.8u and applied the patch but now > > whenever

Re: insert-string garbling characters

2020-12-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
I cannot be of much help, I have very little > knowledge of C programming. > > Regards, > Thomas Dupond > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > Le lundi, novembre 30, 2020 1:59 AM, Thomas Dickey a écrit : > > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 04:21:24PM +, Thomas Dupond w

Re: insert-string garbling characters

2020-11-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 04:21:24PM +, Thomas Dupond wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just starting on exploring vile and I fell on something I > cannot solve. I was trying to write a macro and while vile > seems to handle UTF8 really well it doesn't seem to work well > with the function

Re: Problem building/compiling

2020-07-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 09:19:03PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I am trying to compile vile on a web hosting system where I have a > Linux ssh login account. The C preprocessor is problematic:- > > bash-3.2$ pwd > /var/sites/o/oasis41.co.uk/tmp/vile-9.8 > bash-3.2$ ./configure >

Re: ANN: vile-9.8u

2020-05-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:09:53AM -0700, Marc Simpson wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 5:46 PM Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > Files: > > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/current/vile-9.8u.tgz > > ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/current/vile-9

ANN: vile-9.8u

2020-05-17 Thread Thomas Dickey
Files: ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/current/vile-9.8u.tgz ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/current/vile-9.8u.tgz.asc ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/patches/MD5sums ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/patches/vile-9.8u.patch.gz

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:10:34PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 03:25:52PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 01:11:30AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > > There is quite a bit of difference in how traditional X11 bitmap fonts > &

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-06 Thread Thomas Dickey
21AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > > > chris wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 06:54:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > I am always hitting this issue, the cu

Re: Fonts for xvile in linux - where to find some nice ones?

2020-05-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:43:47PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I am always hitting this issue, the current fonts available by default > in standard Linux repositories for xvile are generally horrible. Does > anyone here have any nice ones, or can anyone point me at some nice > ones. There's two

Re: Hopefully quick mode question

2020-04-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 03:04:39PM -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > > When I edit files with '.c' in them I end up in cmode. > Annoying thing is that this inlcudes "*.conf" files. > > To the best of my recollection the only places that should put > me in C mode are: > > set c-suffixes

Re: paste-from-clipboard vs register ;

2020-04-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:27:19PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 15:45:42 + > Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > > Using the latest xvile but I don't believe the version makes a > > difference. > > > > I know there is data in the clipboard. > > > > If issue :paste-from-clibpard it

Re: Inserting text of arbitrary length before rectangular region

2020-03-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 05:05:15PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > marc wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:43 PM Paul Fox wrote: > > > > > > marc wrote: > > > > I'd go the traditional vi route, > > > > > > Yes, clearly in this case, where the insertion is at the start > > > of a line, that's

Re: Python filter: incomplete triple-quoted string support

2020-02-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 08:55:55PM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > The current filter (py-filt.l) only supports triple-quoted strings > formed with double quotes; single quote multi-line literals are > incorrectly highlighted, e.g. hmm - I overlooked that (when I wrote it in 1999). > ''' >

Re: Crash with unmatched patterns

2020-01-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 09:53:20AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:51 AM Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > | From: "Marc Simpson" > > | To: "Thomas Dickey" > > | Cc: "Vile maili

Re: Crash with unmatched patterns

2020-01-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Marc Simpson" | To: "Thomas Dickey" | Cc: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2020 12:46:28 PM | Subject: Re: Crash with unmatched patterns | On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 9:33 AM Thomas Dickey wrote: |> |> On S

Re: Crash with unmatched patterns

2020-01-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 10:08:56AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 9:58 AM Chris Green wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 09:36:25AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > > > Hitting n or N after searching for an unmatched pattern with / or ? > > > crashes vile. > > > > > > To

Re: Crash with unmatched patterns

2020-01-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 09:36:25AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > Hitting n or N after searching for an unmatched pattern with / or ? > crashes vile. > > To reproduce: I've tried this, but am not able to reproduce it :-( (it might depend on the platform - I'm using 64-bit Debian 8 - or it might

Re: Fwd: :show-marks

2019-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 06:00:41PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM Paul Fox wrote: > > > > > > marc wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:20 AM Marc Simpson

Re: Fwd: :show-marks

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM Paul Fox wrote: > > > > marc wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:20 AM Marc Simpson wrote: > > > > > > > > It looks like :show-marks (or :marks, :list-marks) erroneously > > > > displays

Re: iclower

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 07:48:35PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 05:55:25PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:00:44AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > >> One nice nvi feature that I miss in vile is the `iclower' setting: > >

Re: iclower

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:00:44AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > Hi all, > > [I forget whether this has been discussed before; a preliminary > search on https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/vile/ suggests not:] I don't recall that, though it reminds me of a couple of things on my to-do list...

Re: vile.hlp typo

2019-12-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
- Original Message - | From: "Marc Simpson" | To: "Thomas Dickey" | Cc: "Vile mailing list" | Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:33:14 PM | Subject: Re: vile.hlp typo | On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 4:23 PM Marc Simpson wrote: |> |> On Wed, Dec 4,

Re: vile.hlp typo

2019-12-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 09:35:28AM -0800, Marc Simpson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:06 AM Marc Simpson wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 9:01 AM Marc Simpson wrote: > > > > > > Very minor typo (looks like hyphenated text that was subsequently joined): > > A couple more (sorry for the

Re: New user question

2019-11-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 05:18:18PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > thomas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I’m a new user of vile and I really like it. It is fast and the > > mix of emacs and vi is good. I’m coming from emacs keybindings and > > I find vile’s default to be really nice. > > > > I have a

Re: Xvile command line option -xrm

2019-11-09 Thread Thomas Dickey
applications) > See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/x_resources > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 10:02, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:34:14PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm using Xvile 98.t and am

Re: Xvile command line option -xrm

2019-11-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:34:14PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Xvile 98.t and am trying to create a bash alias using > -xrm to set various X resources. > > I'm doing this because I'm starting Xvile over a ssh login and > for some reason the XVile settings in .Xdefaults are

Re: [vile] spellflt.l: Include UTF-8 code points

2019-06-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 06:22:00AM +0200, Michael von der Heide wrote: > > Possibly clearer (ispell on my Debian8 works with this): > > > > diff -u -r1.59 filters/spellflt.l > > --- filters/spellflt.l 2013/12/02 01:32:53 1.59 > > +++ filters/spellflt.l 2019/06/23 20:28:42 > > @@ -157,7

Re: [vile] spellflt.l: Include UTF-8 code points

2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
p.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/lex.html > -- > Michael von der Heide > > > Thomas Dickey schrieb am So., 23. Juni 2019, 21:24: > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 07:42:26PM +0200, Michael von der Heide wrote: > > > Would it be possible to include UTF-8 code points

Re: [vile] spellflt.l: Include UTF-8 code points

2019-06-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 07:42:26PM +0200, Michael von der Heide wrote: > Would it be possible to include UTF-8 code points to check words containing > umlauts? > > WORD ([a-zA-Z]|\xc3[\x80-\xbf])+ lex/flex doesn't do that :-( They use small (256-entry) tables for the character types.

Re: [vile] FTP URL acting strange

2019-04-22 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 02:18:22PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 02:03:15PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > > > actually the person who pointed out the problem to me w

Re: [vile] FTP URL acting strange

2019-04-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 02:03:15PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 01:45:10PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > actually the person who pointed out the problem to me was trying > > to use wget - that didn't work, and nor do any of my browsers. > &

Re: [vile] FTP URL acting strange

2019-04-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 12:39:23PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > I maintain the slackbuild for vile, currently using rev 9.8s. > > It's worked in the past for many years but something has recently > broken the FTP URL source path via curl. > > Here is a build attempt that fails at the download

Re: [vile] multiline abbreviations, is it possible?

2019-01-20 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 10:22:21AM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > I tried: > > :abb XXX line1^V^Mline2 I use map for this: map #3 oThe current version of vile is 9.8 It's available at https://invisible-island.net/vile/vile.html ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/vile/

Re: [vile] Help the poor windows user!

2018-12-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 12:31:48PM +, Gavin Holt wrote: > Hi > > I am grateful that you take the time to provide a win32 executable ( I > don't have the skills to compile code). Of all the console based editors > vile has the best screen/mouse functionality under Windows, it appears to > have

Re: [vile] suffixes

2018-11-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 07:15:16PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > How does one view or access which suffixes apply to the current major > mode without having to examine modes.rc? I'd start with :show-majormodes > Is it possible to add to suffixes that exist in modes.rc without having >

Re: [vile] Possible locations for vile.keywords

2018-08-01 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 03:32:07PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:45:50PM +0100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > Tracing the execution of opening a file in cmode via "vile @filters.rc > > foo.c" shows that the following files are attempted in order: > > > > ./.vile.keywords > >

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