Re: Vim 8.0 Suggestion

2007-01-30 Thread Martin Krischik
Am Dienstag 30 Januar 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - being able to open very large files quickly and   without using too much memory.  This could possibly   be achieved by not loading the entire file immediately.   File could be loaded lazily when required. The last (and only) editor to

Re: Vim 8.0 Suggestion

2007-01-30 Thread Nikolai Weibull
On 1/30/07, Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 30 Januar 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - being able to open very large files quickly and without using too much memory. This could possibly be achieved by not loading the entire file immediately. File could be loaded lazily

Re: Vim 8.0 Suggestion

2007-01-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nikolai Weibull wrote: On 1/30/07, Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 30 Januar 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - being able to open very large files quickly and without using too much memory. This could possibly be achieved by not loading the entire file immediately.

Re: Vim 8.0 Suggestion

2007-01-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Dominique Pelle wrote: My wishlist for vim-8.0: - being able to open very large files quickly and without using too much memory. This could possibly be achieved by not loading the entire file immediately. File could be loaded lazily when required. This could perhaps have been

Re: Vim 8.0 Suggestion

2007-01-30 Thread Nikolai Weibull
On 1/31/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: On 1/30/07, Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Dienstag 30 Januar 2007 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - being able to open very large files quickly and without using too much memory. This could possibly be

jump from word to word

2007-01-30 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
Hi all, w jumps from word to word. However, it considers German umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) and German sz (ß) as word end. For example, w stops at the indicated positions: Schwämme überall. ^ ^^ ^^ ^ However, I would desire instead: Schwämme überall. ^^ ^ Any idea

Re: jump from word to word

2007-01-30 Thread Jürgen Krämer
Hi, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: w jumps from word to word. However, it considers German umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) and German sz (ß) as word end. For example, w stops at the indicated positions: Schwämme überall. ^ ^^ ^^ ^ However, I would desire instead: Schwämme überall.

RE: jump from word to word

2007-01-30 Thread Roy Fulbright
Try using capital W instead. Roy Fulbright From: Claus Atzenbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vim vim@vim.org Subject: jump from word to word Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:30:42 +0100 (CET) Hi all, w jumps from word to word. However, it considers German umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) and German sz (ß) as word end.

RE: jump from word to word

2007-01-30 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Roy Fulbright wrote: Try using capital W instead. Thanks, this helps. I read about it when I started using Vim, however, apparently I forgot that. Claus

Deleting control line feed in string

2007-01-30 Thread Mueller Stefan
Hello, quite simple question: How can I delete a control line feed in a string I tried: Let value = substitute(string,\\n,,g) But doesn't work. In vim7, I used Let list = split(string) Let Value = list[0] But this doesn't work on vim6.3 on older machine, where we have installed that version.

Re: Weird problem with helpgrep

2007-01-30 Thread DervishD
Hi Bram :) * Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: DervishD wrote: Given that /usr/doc or /usr/share/doc are pretty standard when it comes to install documentation, shouldn't ex_helpgrep use the directory from helpfile too, just like :help does? Vim documentation must be in

Re: A suggestion about runtime files and documentation

2007-01-30 Thread DervishD
Hi Bram :) * Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: DervishD wrote: Don't take me wrong: I'm not critisizing Bram's amazing work with Vim, and I'm not asking for this to be fixed. What I really mean is that Vim will be more flexible if it doesn't have that hardcoded paths and

Re: jump from word to word

2007-01-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Hi all, w jumps from word to word. However, it considers German umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) and German sz (ß) as word end. For example, w stops at the indicated positions: Schwämme überall. ^ ^^ ^^ ^ However, I would desire instead: Schwämme überall. ^

Re: jump from word to word

2007-01-30 Thread Claus Atzenbeck
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Jürgen Krämer wrote: note that W uses Vim's definition of WORD, i.e., any sequence of non-blank characters separated by white space is considered to be a WORD. In practice this means that W will not stop at commas, dots, exclamation marks, quotes, etc. It might be better

Re: Deleting control line feed in string

2007-01-30 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Mueller Stefan [2007.01.30 07:56]: How can I delete a control line feed in a string :s/\\n// Should do what you want. Insert range as appropriate. Or :let value = substitute(string, n,,g) :h substitute() Discusses this specific case. HTH, -- JR

Re: Deleting control line feed in string

2007-01-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Jean-Rene David wrote: * Mueller Stefan [2007.01.30 07:56]: How can I delete a control line feed in a string :s/\\n// Should do what you want. Insert range as appropriate. Or :let value = substitute(string, n,,g) :h substitute() Discusses this specific case. HTH, Jean-René, I

Re: Structure of runtime directory on ftp.vim.org

2007-01-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Bill McCarthy wrote: I don't know why, but the spell directory is missing for dos/. Because the files in the spell directory are exactly the same for Unix and DOS. They are quite big too, thus saving the space is worth the effort. Thanks for the explanation. Comparing the ftp

Re: Weird problem with helpgrep

2007-01-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
DervishD wrote: Generally I find it quite strange to order application-specific files by their type instead of by the application. But that's a very sensible thing to do. This way you can partition the hiearchy much more efficiently. For example, I have my /usr zone backup recorded

Re: A suggestion about runtime files and documentation

2007-01-30 Thread Bram Moolenaar
DervishD wrote: I mean, that's not the point. The point is that the source code is using hardcoded directories, and that is not a good practice, even if you force to have all runtime files under the same directory, because someone could change one of the many variables under src/Makefile