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

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Zhaojun WU wrote: Hi, Vimmers, Just found an interesting problem but don't why. I am using Debian on my Linux box and used the vim-gtk package before. I have the settings like: = if has(gui_running) set guifont=BitStream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono\ 11 set

Re: arabic font

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Babiker Osman wrote: Hi I am looking for appropriate arabic fonts to integrate with vim and how can i set it babiker The following assumes that you have a gvim version with Arabic support. Try :echo has(arabic) If the answer is nonzero (normally 1), it's OK. If it's zero, you

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

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
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 lines and columns settings, but something else resizes it

Re: help needed with completion in version 7

2007-04-30 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:23:06PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Andrei Voropaev wrote: [...] Unfortunately it's not just a missing screen. If you try to do completion again it won't work. So again, type the beginning of word, hit Ctrl-N, hit Backspace, type ( and beginning of another word,

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: who actually controls the window size of my gvim?

2007-04-30 Thread Zhaojun WU
Hi, Tony and John, As I posted in my first email, I am also setting the guifont *before* the columns and lines setting. I think I find out where those strange lines and columns number are from after I check the columns and linessettings in the gvim opened from my urxvt terminal. It used the

Re: moving virual rectange about in virtualedit mode

2007-04-30 Thread Tim Chase
I 'set ve=all' and selected a rectangle with Ctrl-V. How can I move this rectangle up/down left/right with arrows ? I assume you're asking how you can move the other sides of a visual block. When you're using visual block you usually have control of only one corner (southwest for me most of

Re: wish: show search progress on slow searches

2007-04-30 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 4/29/07, Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/29/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yakov Lerner wrote: Wish: when search is slow, show the progress line number every second on the bottom line (like, 12345 of 9). What is slow? To my taste, when something takes

autocmd help - Sending new buffers into tabs

2007-04-30 Thread OnionKnight
VIM, when opening buffers, seem to hide current one and replace it with the newly opened one. I want it to behave so that it instead opens a new tab and opens the new buffer there. I tried something like: autocmd BufReadPre * call CreateTab() let s:firstcall = 1 function! CreateTab ()

[converted]?

2007-04-30 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
Never saw *this* before... There's one file (.htm) that I edit, and every time I write it to-disk, it'll say [converted], much the way you'd see on reading a file the status message that lists any non-native format or other quirks of the file, eg, [unix], [noeol], etc. (At least that's what I

Re: [converted]?

2007-04-30 Thread Tim Chase
There's one file (.htm) that I edit, and every time I write it to-disk, it'll say [converted], much the way you'd see on reading a file the status message that lists any non-native format or other quirks of the file, eg, [unix], [noeol], etc. (At least that's what I recall; the file's at home

RE: [converted]?

2007-04-30 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
There's one file (.htm) that I edit, and every time I write it to-disk, it'll say [converted], much the way you'd see on reading a file the status message that lists any non-native format or other quirks of the file, eg, [unix], [noeol], etc. (At least that's what I recall; the file's at home and

RE: determining if buffer is modified.. etc

2007-04-30 Thread Normandie Azucena
-Original Message- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:53 PM To: Normandie Azucena Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: determining if buffer is modified.. etc On 4/30/07, Normandie Azucena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all! I need to know if a certain

Re: undo line numbers wrong

2007-04-30 Thread Marvin Renich
* A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070427 10:11]: Talk nicely to your sysadmin or your sysop, maybe around a glass of beer or a cup of coffee if you can, and try to convince him to upgrade Vim. He may not like compiling it himself though, even though it is not really hard: see my Vim

...to shoot into oneelse feet...

2007-04-30 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, is it possible to get out of a started change command (dont know, whether this is this the correct naming...) with a single key pressed ? For example the text is Vim is a #eally$nice editor. # is marking my cursor position and $ is the sign appearing after I have

Re: ...to shoot into oneelse feet...

2007-04-30 Thread russ
Original Message Subject: ...to shoot into oneelse feet... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, April 30, 2007 11:36 am To: vim vim@vim.org Hi, is it possible to get out of a started change command (dont know, whether this is this the correct naming...) with a

Again on gvim menu disappeared

2007-04-30 Thread Guido Milanese
Some time ago I posted a note on this topic. I received many kind answers but the problem was not solved. I just received a suggestion by G. Laurent, and it did the trick: rm .gnome2/Vim That's all! A simple interference of parameters. This file has some info on position and menu, such

Vim binaries for Linux

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Announcement: I've tentatively uploaded my current vim binary. Here are the details and caveats: - :version output is at http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/version.txt -- check this first before you attempt to download the executable. - executable is at

Re: feedkeys() allowed in sandbox

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
John Beckett wrote: [...] Is folding really needed in a default modeline? John Folding may be useful in a modeline. (Don't know what you call a default modeline.) Depending on how the particular file is written, you may want to set foldmethod=marker (and which marker), foldmethod=syntax,

Re: accessing vim's clipboard from java

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ernie Rael wrote: Hi all, I've just joined this list. I'm not a vim developer per se. However, I put together jVi, http://jvi.sourceforge.net , whose core is a port of some of vim to java. It runs on NetBeans ( and JBuilder, but not supported any more). jVi is based on vim-5.6. A jVi user

Re: arabic

2007-04-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Babiker Osman wrote: Hi السلام I wonder who is the most arabic -vim -tex expert to consult him babiker osman It depends what you want to do. - If it's so high-fired secret that you won't give us any hint of what you might be doing, just dig into the help. Start at :help arabic.txt if

Re: feedkeys() allowed in sandbox

2007-04-30 Thread John Beckett
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Is folding really needed in a default modeline? Folding may be useful in a modeline. (Don't know what you call a default modeline.) By default modeline I mean I would like Vim to be changed so that its default behaviour is aggressively safe. If wanted, there could be a

Re: wish: show search progress on slow searches

2007-04-30 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 4/29/07, Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/29/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yakov Lerner wrote: Wish: when search is slow, show the progress line number every second on the bottom line (like, 12345 of 9). What is slow? To my taste, when something takes

Re: feedkeys() allowed in sandbox

2007-04-30 Thread Matthew Winn
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:10:55 +1000, John Beckett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Winn wrote: I don't like the idea of preventing modelines over 100 bytes. I imagine (haven't looked) that a modeline has no hard limit to its length. So multi-megabyte modelines are probably handled by Vim.