Re: who actually controls the window size of my gvim?

2007-04-30 Thread John Orr
On Monday 30 April 2007 19:21, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: John Orr wrote: Two cents worth - I've long had problems like this, on Suse Linux, where something, the OS I have assumed, or the X graphics system, takes control of the sizing of my gvim application. The size is initially set by my

Re: Consistently exit message display with 'q'?

2007-03-21 Thread John Orr
Thanks for the clarification Brett. At least if you have external commands you use regularly though, you could wrap them in a vim function, thereby making them effectively internal, making g useful. Just an update - I promised I'd investigate extending my patch to help those people who

Consistently exit message display with 'q'?

2007-03-19 Thread John Orr
Hi all, I'm a bit frustrated by a particular behaviour of vim, and today I modified the source code to 'fix' it. I'd be very grateful for some opinions if you a) agree with my thoughts, or b) have a better solution. The problem - is when you run a command that outputs messages to vim - over

Re: Consistently exit message display with 'q'?

2007-03-19 Thread John Orr
Hi Tony, (and others), Thanks for your (tireless) input, yes, Ctrl-C is certainly a good suggestion, that works consistently, with no error bells/flashes, no matter how far through the messages you are. And I totally agree that it's good to make it easy to know when there is more output to

Setting window size at startup under linux

2006-10-29 Thread John Orr
Hi all, I'm using Suse Linux, with KDE, and have a vim function to set my window size on startup. The function just sets columns and lines, and calls winpos, depending upon various other variables I provide. Previously I was registering this function to be called by an autocmd on the GUIEnter

Re: Setting window size at startup under linux

2006-10-29 Thread John Orr
: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:30:40AM +1000, John Orr wrote: Hi all, I'm using Suse Linux, with KDE, and have a vim function to set my window size on startup. The function just sets columns and lines, and calls winpos, depending upon various other variables I provide. Previously I

Command Line Window problem

2006-08-02 Thread John Orr
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has a good solution to an annoying problem I seem to cause myself. When you type a command in vim that results in text scrolling up the screen - eg :messages or :registers, you will be hit by one of two comments: Press ENTER or type command to continue OR -- More

Fwd: Re: ESC key is too far away.

2006-08-02 Thread John Orr
Have you tried AutoHotKey? It's a brilliant (free) program for writing powerful macros on windows, trigger by both keyboard and mouse, it must be able to achieve the desired effect. On Thursday 03 August 2006 09:09, you wrote: On 8/2/06, cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006

Re: Command Line Window problem

2006-08-02 Thread John Orr
Thanks Yakov, and others for the Escape substitute ideas. I'll probably try a few of them. John On Wednesday 02 August 2006 19:13, Yakov Lerner wrote: On 8/2/06, Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/06, John Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you type a command in vim that results

Re: :edit {file} question

2006-07-20 Thread John Orr
it for your needs. Cheers, John On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:50, John Orr wrote: On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:10, [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

Re: :edit {file} question

2006-07-19 Thread John Orr
On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:10, [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

Re: automatically recover from swap file

2006-07-04 Thread John Orr
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:32, you wrote: Let's say I have a .filename.swp as the swap file. Is it possible to automatically recover and store the recovered file as filename.recovered? I would like to do this non-interactively and for multiple files. Any ideas? A great question I think -

Re: Makefile indentation with spaces for line continuation

2006-06-18 Thread John Orr
set listchars+=tab:_ The listchars isn't hugely necessary since the syntax highlighting should point out any places I failed to tab where I should have, but it can't hurt either. Thanks again, John On Saturday 17 June 2006 05:42, Gerald Lai wrote: On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, John Orr wrote: [snip

Re: Makefile indentation with spaces for line continuation

2006-06-16 Thread John Orr
see a way to tell Vim to indent with tabs sometimes and not others. On 6/15/06, John Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently implementing a make system with GNU Make and have been trying for a while to work out how to get the indentation working as I would like it to. I

Makefile indentation with spaces for line continuation

2006-06-15 Thread John Orr
Hi, I'm currently implementing a make system with GNU Make and have been trying for a while to work out how to get the indentation working as I would like it to. I believe it is reasonably standard when editing makefiles to set noexpandtab such that tabs are inserted when you start the