Re: VIM7 on Tandem OSS

2006-07-20 Thread Benji Fisher
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:51:36PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote: Well, I'll hope for a reply from Bram. I'm used to projects that don't appreciate people shooting e-mail off to any particular individual when there is a designated list/forum. :-) Vim is different from most open-source

Re: VIM7 on Tandem OSS

2006-07-20 Thread mwoehlke
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: mwoehlke wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Well, that was exciting... I recently tried to build vim 7 on OSS (Tandem / HP Nonstop S-Series). I finally got it to work by diff'ing the ITUG Floss sources (link below) against vim-6.1 and applying the diffs to

Vim patches and lack of food

2006-07-20 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Greetings, Vim users. You may have noticed patches for Vim 7 appear at a slow pace. I currently have limited time to work on Vim. And my internet connection isn't 100% reliable, and SourceForge was down for a day, and [insert your favorite excuse here]... On the positive side: I found a nice

scrolloff enhancement wish

2006-07-20 Thread Yakov Lerner
Hello Bram, Would you include into todo.txt the thing that I used in one very ancient but exceptionally smooth editor called K52 (it worked on pdp11, vt52 terminals). This editor always positioned cursor at 2/3 height from top of screen. This worked surprisingly well, even if it sounds strange.

poll?

2006-07-20 Thread Yakov Lerner
Bram, How about posting a poll on www.vim.org site ? Two polls ! (1) Do you you vim6 or vim 7 ? (2) Do you use console-mode-vim or gvim ? Yakov

Re: poll?

2006-07-20 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Yakov Lerner wrote: Bram, How about posting a poll on www.vim.org site ? Two polls ! (1) Do you you vim6 or vim 7 ? (2) Do you use console-mode-vim or gvim ? What would we do with the outcome? -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 29. Your phone bill comes to your

Re: Incompatible change in 7.0 which were not mentioned

2006-07-20 Thread Jürgen Krämer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got it, a will be interprated as args in Vim 6.4, and args will be the command line argument of the :Explore However, in Vim 7.0, a will NOT be args. it will still be a Note that the :h version7 does not noticed about the incompatible change. Is this

Re: :edit {file} question

2006-07-20 Thread Matthew Winn
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:10:43PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to edit a file that is in the same directory as the current file? E.g. I open a file like this: vim /x/y/z/w/file1.c and want to now open /x/y/z/w/file2.c? I just type :e ^R% to get the current filename,

Re: spellchecking in version7 general info needed

2006-07-20 Thread Lukas Muehlethaler
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:04:31AM +0200, Klaus Rudolph wrote: Hi all, I installed vim7 now and want to test the spellchecking. I am confused about all the stuff, because the info I found is mixed from version7 and older scipts. What I am really missing is a general information about

echo messsage Press any key message

2006-07-20 Thread SHANKAR R-R66203
Hi In a function, I am echoing some message. The message is echoed and there is message - Please ENTER or type command to continue Is there any way to get rid of this. I just want the message to be displayed, but should not wait for VIM to display to press any key. I saw this behaviour in

:split above below...

2006-07-20 Thread Marco Kunze
Hi, Is there a method to tell vim whether I would like to open the new file below or above the current window when using :split? Or is there a way to swap two windows? Thanks, Marco

Re: :edit {file} question

2006-07-20 Thread Wim R. Crols
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the easiest way to edit a file that is in the same directory as the current file? E.g. I open a file like this: vim /x/y/z/w/file1.c and want to now open /x/y/z/w/file2.c? Occasionally want to open files in the parent directory of current file's directory. It

Fwd: echo messsage Press any key message

2006-07-20 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 7/20/06, SHANKAR R-R66203 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi In a function, I am echoing some message. The message is echoed and there is message - Please ENTER or type command to continue Is there any way to get rid of this. I just want the message to be displayed, but should not wait for VIM

Vim patches and lack of food

2006-07-20 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Greetings, Vim users. You may have noticed patches for Vim 7 appear at a slow pace. I currently have limited time to work on Vim. And my internet connection isn't 100% reliable, and SourceForge was down for a day, and [insert your favorite excuse here]... On the positive side: I found a nice

Re: poll?

2006-07-20 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Yakov Lerner wrote: Bram, How about posting a poll on www.vim.org site ? Two polls ! (1) Do you you vim6 or vim 7 ? (2) Do you use console-mode-vim or gvim ? What would we do with the outcome? -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 29. Your phone bill comes to your

user defined command n/a in Tiny mode, any has() +xxx reqired for that?

2006-07-20 Thread panshizhu
Hi, For some reason my .vimrc must works for multiple versions of Vim. Now, I found that in Vim 6.1 Tiny version (shipped with Redhat 9), the following does not work: command! -nargs=+ TestCmd echo args TestCmd my test The vim saids: Not an editor command: TestCmd my test It seems that the

Re: user defined command n/a in Tiny mode, any has() +xxx reqired for that?

2006-07-20 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For some reason my .vimrc must works for multiple versions of Vim. Now, I found that in Vim 6.1 Tiny version (shipped with Redhat 9), the following does not work: command! -nargs=+ TestCmd echo args TestCmd my test The vim saids: Not an editor command: TestCmd my

Visible Spaces

2006-07-20 Thread Stewart Johnson
Hi All - Sorry if this obvious but I couldn't find anything in :help or google. Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Thanks, Stewart

Re: Visible Spaces

2006-07-20 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Steve Hall wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:19 +0800, Stewart Johnson wrote: Is there a vim option to represent space characters in a file as a dot or something else not blank? Vim can only represent trailing spaces, not any intermediate ones. (Per the previously mentioned listchars option.)

Re: :edit {file} question

2006-07-20 Thread John Orr
Okay, here's a couple of versions depending upon which version of vim you have. I don't know if it's universal, but my installation of version 6.3 has a non-functioning getcmdline command, and vim7 adds a useful new command, getcmdtype, hence: Get path to current file in command-line using

Re: Visible Spaces

2006-07-20 Thread Georg Dahn
Hi! Or you might want to use :1,$s/ /./ to replace all spaces by dots, then (immediately after) u for undo. To replace _all_ spaces by dots, you should better use :%s/ /./g because your command replaces the first space character of each line only. With 'g' at the end, all space

Re: Visible Spaces

2006-07-20 Thread Benji Fisher
Would you be satisfied with changing the background color for spaces? Step 1: :hi and look for a pleasing color. I am not using the GUI right now, and it looks as though my choices are limited. (Many groups change the foreground color but not the background, at least in the default color