Re: Subject: Re: vim on cygwin using win32 clipboard
Also, is there anything I can do to help get the original patch accepted? Ask a few people to try it out and report their results here. I'll give it a shot. Is there somewhere I can grab the patch from, or should I go through the list archives to find it? Chris -- Chris Sutcliffe http://ir0nh34d.googlepages.com http://ir0nh34d.blogspot.com http://emergedesktop.org
Re: Vim crashing while starting nibbles game
Dnia czwartek 15 luty 2007, Hari Krishna Dara napisał: After I updated the nibbles game, a user reported that his gvim crashes Cannot start Nibble at all: Error in function SNR29_Nibble..nibble#Nibble: line 50: E416: cleared latest genutils and nibble. m.
Re: Web-based editing [Was :wq vs ZZ]
On 15/02/07, Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 03:31:21 +0100, Bram Moolenaar sent: Web-based editor? Why not use Vim as your editor from within Firefox? Works a treat for me! ViewSourceWith http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/viewsourcewith/ Don't see something about Vim here... Sorry, Bram, I should have mentioned that a little configuration is required here. I should also mention that ViewSourceWith does more than it says on the tin, insofar as you can do more than viewing source with it. It provides a menu item for you to launch your favourite text editor (Vim) from a textarea. I've been using it for a while now under Windows. I suspect that to use it under Linux then a shell script like the one you provided would be needed. I use ViewSourceWith under Windows Linux and it doesn't need a shell script: it polls for changes to the file (I guess), so it doesn't matter whether gvim is forked or not. However, It's All Text sounds rather nice, so I may well switch to that now! Al
Re: External command with arguments (WinXP): cmd /c problem
Hm, this is strange, the windows shell cmd (not vim!) has problems with the following: cmd.exe /c C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE /a c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\hofjoa41\Eigene Dateien\test.txt - C:\Programme\Microsoft not found If I use the command above directly at the shell *without* the cmd /c part it works properly! I think I will ask also at alt.msdos.batch.nt if cmd /c has a special problem. Joachim ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.f-secure.com/
Re: External command with arguments (WinXP): cmd /c problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, this is strange, the windows shell cmd (not vim!) has problems with the following: cmd.exe /c C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE /a c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\hofjoa41\Eigene Dateien\test.txt - C:\Programme\Microsoft not found If I use the command above directly at the shell *without* the cmd /c part it works properly! I think I will ask also at alt.msdos.batch.nt if cmd /c has a special problem. Joachim ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.f-secure.com/ If you replace Microsoft Office by its 8.3 equivalent (MICROS~1 or similar) you can leave out the quotes around it and it will still work OK, because there won't be spaces then, to be mistaken for separators. Best regards, Tony. -- 10.0 times 0.1 is hardly ever 1.0.
Re: External command with arguments (WinXP): cmd /c problem
Hi Joachim! This seems to correlate with the space in the directory name. Try C:\Programme\Microsoft\ Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE Regards, Doc Hm, this is strange, the windows shell cmd (not vim!) has problems with the following: cmd.exe /c C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE /a c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\hofjoa41\Eigene Dateien\test.txt - C:\Programme\Microsoft not found If I use the command above directly at the shell *without* the cmd /c part it works properly! I think I will ask also at alt.msdos.batch.nt if cmd /c has a special problem. Joachim ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.f-secure.com/
Re: Web-based editing [Was :wq vs ZZ]
On 15/02/07, A. S. Budden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15/02/07, Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 03:31:21 +0100, Bram Moolenaar sent: Web-based editor? Why not use Vim as your editor from within Firefox? Works a treat for me! ViewSourceWith http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/viewsourcewith/ Don't see something about Vim here... Sorry, Bram, I should have mentioned that a little configuration is required here. I should also mention that ViewSourceWith does more than it says on the tin, insofar as you can do more than viewing source with it. It provides a menu item for you to launch your favourite text editor (Vim) from a textarea. I've been using it for a while now under Windows. I suspect that to use it under Linux then a shell script like the one you provided would be needed. I use ViewSourceWith under Windows Linux and it doesn't need a shell script: it polls for changes to the file (I guess), so it doesn't matter whether gvim is forked or not. However, It's All Text sounds rather nice, so I may well switch to that now! I've tried It's All Text now and the 'ergonomics' are definitely better, but ViewSourceWith has one considerable advantage in my book: it names the temporary text files according to the name of the website (e.g. this one is mail.google.com_mailmsgbodyta_81171540646705.txt). This makes it nice and easy to set Vim up to get the right file type: au BufNewFile,BufRead mail.google.com_mailmsgbody* setf mail It's All Text seems to just use a random string of numbers, so it's less directly configurable. Just my 2p's worth. Al
typing cmds 2x for cygwin shell
I use the cygwin shell from within Vim by using the following in my _vimrc : set shell=c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat If I use :r!date to insert the current date, the shell will open and I have to type the command date again. Then after typing exit the shell exits and the date is placed in the buffer. Any suggestions on how to avoid typing the command a second time? Thanks, Kevin
Re: External command with arguments (WinXP): cmd /c problem
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, this is strange, the windows shell cmd (not vim!) has problems with the following: cmd.exe /c C:\Programme\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE /a c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\hofjoa41\Eigene Dateien\test.txt - C:\Programme\Microsoft not found If I use the command above directly at the shell *without* the cmd /c part it works properly! I think I will ask also at alt.msdos.batch.nt if cmd /c has a special problem. Joachim ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.f-secure.com/ If you replace Microsoft Office by its 8.3 equivalent (MICROS~1 or similar) you can leave out the quotes around it and it will still work OK, because there won't be spaces then, to be mistaken for separators. Best regards, Tony. I've also encountered this problem many times since I often call cmd with /c in my scripts or programs. The answer to this problem may be strange, but at least I found one thing: if the path of the executable contains no space, don't quote it. However, if the path does contain a space, and the problem still arises, I don't know what to do.
RE: typing cmds 2x for cygwin shell
@Kevin vim passes the date command somehow to the shell invoked. If you set the shell to your script, which is calling the real shell, the information about to invoke the date command gets lost. Regards, Doc I use the cygwin shell from within Vim by using the following in my _vimrc : set shell=c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat If I use :r!date to insert the current date, the shell will open and I have to type the command date again. Then after typing exit the shell exits and the date is placed in the buffer. Any suggestions on how to avoid typing the command a second time? Thanks, Kevin
Re: Web-based editing [Was :wq vs ZZ]
On 2/15/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using It's All Text! now. Just had to create a shell script to start gvim, because it doesn't allow you to give arguments to the command. I'm using this (on Unix, obviously): #!/bin/sh gvim -f $@ I can't seem to get it to work; gvim comes up all right, but as if it was started without any file arguments. Adding an echo to the shell script shows that in fact, it isn't being passed any arguments. Is there something special I have to do in the preferences of It's All Text! to tell it how to pass a filename. Store this in a file, make it executable, and set it from Tools/Add-ons/It's All Text/Preferences The plugin can be found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4125/ Warning: If you set the preferences to use Vim firefox gets stuck. Not if you've started it from an xterm; vim comes up in the xterm. (But Firefox does hang until you exit vim.) -- James Kanze (GABI Software)mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Conseils en informatique orientée objet/ Beratung in objektorientierter Datenverarbeitung 9 place Sémard, 78210 St.-Cyr-l'École, France, +33 (0)1 30 23 00 34
^M [Was] how to read the file created in PC in Linux correctly?
On 15/02/07, frank wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help. My gvim version is 7.0. The files are edited by Matlab editor. gvim cannot automatically handle the ^M. No matter what file format I set. The only thing to do is repleace them with %s/\r/\r/g. This ^M is hard to find in help and highly useful. Type ctrl-v then ctrl-m and you can easily search for CR. I often do :%s/ctrl-vctrl-m//g and for tabs: :%s/ctrl-vtab/ /g
save a file
How do you save a file in a vim script? I have a script that modify a file and
I want to save it. After that send it to an external command. The last two
lines are the important ones. Any help would be greatly appreciate it.
exe normal! :%j\r
while search(div class=\vpc_bcc_cell\,Wc) != 0
exe normal! d^
exe normal! /\\\/div\r
exe normal! 2nf
exe normal! a\r\e
endwhile
exe normal! /\\\/div\r
exe normal! 2nf
exe normal! a\r\e
exe normal! :g!/^div/d\r
%s#^.*window.open('\([^']\+\)'.*thumb
src=\([^]\+\).*_link[^]\+\([^]\+\).*class=vpc_bcc_cell_text[^]*\([^]\+\).*$#\1br
/\r\2br /\r\3br /\r\4br /\rbr /\r#
%s//amp;/g
exe normal! gg
exe normal! Ihtmlheadtitle/title/headbody\e
exe normal! Go/body/html\e
exe normal! :upd
exe normal! :!firefox.exe \.expand(%:p).\\r
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Re: save a file
exe normal! :%j\r Hello Michael. vim script can be thought of as a series of ex commands (colon commands), therefore the first line of your script could be rewritten: %j which should give a clue as to how you might want to *write* your file. also, you probably don't need the exe command all the way through your script - exe allows an arbitrary expression to be executed, so you can include variables in the command. You might think that your firefox command would need to use exe, since you are including the expand() call to find the path, but the following would work just as well: !firefox %:p HTH
Encoding problem
I have a bit of a problem with encoding. A particular file (made in windows btw) shows characters wrong in vim, but ok in gvim. Example: ¹²³⬠(made by holding alt-gr key and typing 1234). Gvim shows encoding as utf-8 as does vim, so I thought maybe it was a problem with my terminal (mrxvt) but in Irssi I have set char-set as cp1252 and these characters show correctly in my term. CP1252 doesn't appear to be an option in vim though. Also the pound £ sign doesn't show correctly. Any ideas how to get around this problem? -- A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension. -- Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature
AW: External command with arguments (WinXP): cmd /c problem workaround
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you replace Microsoft Office by its 8.3 equivalent (MICROS~1 or similar) OK, this works: C:\PROGRA~1\MI1933~1\OFFICE10\outlook.exe /a %:p I found this strange short path by calling command.com from cmd.com set to the desired path before. Thank You Joachim ### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.f-secure.com/
How to get destructive backspace in command mode?
What is the proper way to have a destructive backspace key in command mode that works like the X key in vim version 6.4.6. That is, the backspace key should move to the left and delete the character there. Currently my backspace key backspaces but does not delete the character to the left. All other programs in my Kubuntu 6.10 work properly. Insert mode works correctly. Is it possible to 'alias' the X key to backspace? I do not want to change any Linix config files except .vimrc to prevent unwanted side effects. Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux
Re: How to get destructive backspace in command mode?
What is the proper way to have a destructive backspace key in command mode that works like the X key in vim version 6.4.6. That is, the backspace key should move to the left and delete the character there. Currently my backspace key backspaces but does not delete the character to the left. All other programs in my Kubuntu 6.10 work properly. Insert mode works correctly. Is it possible to 'alias' the X key to backspace? I do not want to change any Linix config files except .vimrc You can easily add the following line to your .vimrc: nnoremap bs X (typed literally with greater-than and less-than signs) which will do exactly as you describe, aliasing the backspace key to behave like X. This is actually described here: :help bs You can learn more about vim's remapping abilities here: :help :map and more about the key-notation used: :help -tim
Re: How to get destructive backspace in command mode?
Tim Chase wrote: What is the proper way to have a destructive backspace key in command mode that works like the X key in vim version 6.4.6. That is, the backspace key should move to the left and delete the character there. Currently my backspace key backspaces but does not delete the character to the left. All other programs in my Kubuntu 6.10 work properly. Insert mode works correctly. Is it possible to 'alias' the X key to backspace? I do not want to change any Linix config files except .vimrc You can easily add the following line to your .vimrc: nnoremap bs X (typed literally with greater-than and less-than signs) which will do exactly as you describe, aliasing the backspace key to behave like X. This is actually described here: :help bs You can learn more about vim's remapping abilities here: :help :map and more about the key-notation used: :help Thanks for your very prompt reply Tim. After putting 'nnoremap bs X in ~.vimrc I see that backspace works differently than X. X will move the cursor left, deleting the character that was there, and 'pulling' all the text that was to the right over one character. Backspace now deletes the character to the left and 'pulls' the text, but the cursor does not move. The result is that repeated backspaces now delete text to the _right_ instead of to the _left_ as X does. This is quite unnerving to a longtime 'deleter' g I read the three :help items you mentioned and tried :set backspace=indent,eol,start and :set backspace=indent,eol,start but neither did want I want. Frankly I didn't understand what :he map was getting at. Is there any way to get the conventional backspace behavior I'm used to? Larry -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux
Re: Help needed on pt_BR spell checking
Hello, Bram, thanks for the reply! I'm sorry, but I can't find the famous $RUNTIMEPATH/spell/*.diff files. They are don't seem to be part of the vim or the vim-spell-xx packages in gentoo, and I can't find them in vim's ftp server. I can't find the a-a-p recipes either... I'm sorry if this should be more obvious, but I'm stuck. When I can make a good pt_BR vimspell file I'll contact the pt_PT people to see how are we going to maintain vim dictionaries. Thanks! Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle 2007/2/9, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Leonardo Fontenelle wrote: I made a pt.utf-8.spl from myspell-pt_BR, and placed it in ~/.vim/spell/. When I run :set spell spelllang=pt_BR, I get an error message: Warning: region BR not supported. My locale is pt_BR, and I'm sure vim knows about that because :lang yields pt_BR.UTF-8. Curiously, running :set spell spelllang=~/.vim/spell/pt.utf-8.spl works! If you have a spell file without regions, use :set spl=pt. The distributed spell file has both pt_PT and pt_BR. See runtime/spell/pt/ in the distributed runtime files (before installing). http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell/README_pt.txt doesn't have any contact information for the maintainers, and logs changes up to 2002, when the pt_PT and pt_BR dictionaries where based on the ispell ones. Since then the br.ispell maintainer has disappeared, and the myspell dictionary developed by BrOffice.org (OOo's pt_BR community) became circa ten times larger than br.ispell. I released recently an updated aspell6-pt_BR based on BrOffice.org's dictionay, and would like everyone to have an updated pt_BR dictionary for vim. Please help me: - Use the custom dictionay without region not supported errors. - Contact the pt.ENC.(spl|sug) maintainers. - Understand how to create a sug file. - How the better way to talk to Bram about pt dict maintainership. I'll be very glad if someone wants to take over maintaining the spell file for a specific language. Look in the directory mentioned above, you will find *.diff files. These need to be applied to new .dic and .aff files, as much as possible. More info in runtime/spell/README.txt. Generating the files is done with an Aap script. Installing Aap should be easy, it only requires Python. -- From know your smileys: |-(Contact lenses, but has lost them /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org///
Re: Encoding problem
SOLVED! Well I think I fixed by rtfm: :set termenc=cp1252 Seems to work, but I don't know yet whether it breaks anything else. On (15:20 15/02/07), David Woodfall [EMAIL PROTECTED] put forth the proposition: I have a bit of a problem with encoding. A particular file (made in windows btw) shows characters wrong in vim, but ok in gvim. Example: ¹²³⬠(made by holding alt-gr key and typing 1234). Gvim shows encoding as utf-8 as does vim, so I thought maybe it was a problem with my terminal (mrxvt) but in Irssi I have set char-set as cp1252 and these characters show correctly in my term. CP1252 doesn't appear to be an option in vim though. Also the pound £ sign doesn't show correctly. Any ideas how to get around this problem? -- A fractal is by definition a set for which the Hausdorff Besicovitch dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension. -- Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature -- The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ... neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Re: How to get destructive backspace in command mode?
You can easily add the following line to your .vimrc: nnoremap bs X Thanks for your very prompt reply Tim. After putting 'nnoremap bs X in ~.vimrc I see that backspace works differently than X. X will move the cursor left, deleting the character that was there, and 'pulling' all the text that was to the right over one character. Backspace now deletes the character to the left and 'pulls' the text, but the cursor does not move. The result is that repeated backspaces now delete text to the _right_ instead of to the _left_ as X does. It sounds like you might have had a trailing space after the X perhaps? This would move the cursor forward one character after doing what should be the correct behavior. So rather than nnoremap bs X you have nnoremap bs X (note the additional space) You can type it directly at the command-line: :nnoremap bs X and experiment without having to reload vim (to reload your vimrc) each time. This is quite unnerving to a longtime 'deleter' g Understandably :) I read the three :help items you mentioned and tried :set backspace=indent,eol,start This controls the behavior of what to do when you hit the beginning of a line/indentation/start-of-edit which is a handy option to have when you want it, but it sounds like your difficulties lie elsewhere. Frankly I didn't understand what :he map was getting at. It is a somewhat confusing section of the help to understand. It stems partially from the fact that mappings are such powerful things, it's hard to make their description simple. The whole file in which you arrive :help map.txt has volumes of information that elucidate the dark corners of mappings, but perhaps at the cost of clarity. I suspect that an extra trailing-space slipped in, and that its removal should solve your problem, as the mapping worked for me as you want. -tim
Re: How to get destructive backspace in command mode?
Tim Chase wrote: You can easily add the following line to your .vimrc: nnoremap bs X Thanks for your very prompt reply Tim. After putting 'nnoremap bs X in ~.vimrc I see that backspace works differently than X. X will move the cursor left, deleting the character that was there, and 'pulling' all the text that was to the right over one character. Backspace now deletes the character to the left and 'pulls' the text, but the cursor does not move. The result is that repeated backspaces now delete text to the _right_ instead of to the _left_ as X does. It sounds like you might have had a trailing space after the X perhaps? This would move the cursor forward one character after doing what should be the correct behavior. So rather than nnoremap bs X you have nnoremap bs X (note the additional space) You can type it directly at the command-line: :nnoremap bs X and experiment without having to reload vim (to reload your vimrc) each time. This is quite unnerving to a longtime 'deleter' g Understandably :) I read the three :help items you mentioned and tried :set backspace=indent,eol,start This controls the behavior of what to do when you hit the beginning of a line/indentation/start-of-edit which is a handy option to have when you want it, but it sounds like your difficulties lie elsewhere. Frankly I didn't understand what :he map was getting at. It is a somewhat confusing section of the help to understand. It stems partially from the fact that mappings are such powerful things, it's hard to make their description simple. The whole file in which you arrive :help map.txt has volumes of information that elucidate the dark corners of mappings, but perhaps at the cost of clarity. I suspect that an extra trailing-space slipped in, and that its removal should solve your problem, as the mapping worked for me as you want. Yes Tim that's exactly what happened. Got rid of the extraneous character and backspace is working perfectly now. Thanks very much for your help. -- Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX Using Thunderbird on Linux
Status Line problems on buffer refresh
Hi everyone, I've been having a problem with the non-gui mode of vim in any terminal emulator (xterm, gnome-terminal etc.). The problem is that whenever I try to scroll down the buffer, the status line becomes part of the buffer and scrolls up along with the rest of the text file. It's difficult to describe, so I've attached my personal .vimrc so that anyone can point out some obvious problems. I'd like to have the statusline always shown in both vim and gvim. I'm also trying to make it so that vim and gvim can both use my .vimrc flawlessly. The statusline works perfectly in gvim at the moment and the only time this problem occurs is with regular (inside a terminal) vim. I think the best way to re-crate my problem would be to load up vim in a terminal with my .vimrc and press the down key until the buffer starts to scroll down the screen. It's possible that this problem is not related to vim or my configuration at all, and it's something to do with my X environment. Thanks for any help you can give me Justin P.S. Also if anybody would like a screen shot of my problem (I can't send .png files to the list) then just send me an email and I'll be more than happy to oblige. Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com .vimrc Description: Binary data
Re: :wq vs ZZ
Theerasak Photha wrote the following on 02/13/2007 04:55 PM: On 2/13/07, Gene Kwiecinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'vi' -- a *warrior's* editor... s/warrior/masochist/ s/vi/emacs/
Re: :wq vs ZZ
On 2/15/07, Richard England [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theerasak Photha wrote the following on 02/13/2007 04:55 PM: On 2/13/07, Gene Kwiecinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'vi' -- a *warrior's* editor... s/warrior/masochist/ s/vi/emacs/ To be fair, I think I'd rather use Emacs than something like elvis. *ULCH* Brand me a heretic if you must.
Re: searching for a string that has many '/' characters
Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-02-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a string that has lots of forward slashes. I need to search it and delete it (e.g. unix path name). I could use a backslash for everything forward slash and find it in vim. Is there a way I need not do that? For now, I use 'grep -n' to get the line number and then delete it. I don't actually type the string, I just use cut-and-paste! In addition to the techniques mentioned by others, you could just search backwards instead of forwards, e.g., ?/path/to/file This works great! Thank you all for your responses.
Re: Workspace concept ala TextPad
Hi Eric, On 2/14/07, Eric Leenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Yeggapan, [...] You can try using the workspace manager plugin: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1410 [...] I got it so far working. One question. When I give the command af(AddFile) in the filebuffer, the plugin comes with the message give file name (or something like that) Do you then need to type the complete path (i.e. C:\Projects\FPGA\VHDL\test.vhdl) Or can you browse to it ? In the prompt for adding a file to the workspace, you have to enter the filename. If you are using Vim7, you can make the attached change to the workspace plugin to get filename completion at this prompt. With this change, you can complete directory and filenames at the prompt. - Yegappan *** *** 521,527 let file_names = a:args if file_names == '' ! let file_names = input(Enter file name(s): ) if file_names == '' return endif --- 521,527 let file_names = a:args if file_names == '' ! let file_names = input(Enter file name(s): , '', 'file') if file_names == '' return endif
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
On 2/15/07, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it highlighted with just the keyboard? Assuming you're talking about ex commands, yes. You can type Ctrl-R to insert a register, then the name of any register, including the expression register, =. In your case, the name would probably be '+', so Ctrl-R+.
Re: :wq vs ZZ
On 2/15/07, Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My opinion, emacs and Vim are very powerful editors. (obvious) I used emacs for years. Within months of trying Vim, I was much more productive. Once you learn the basics and begin to build, you'll be amazed at what you can accomplish with Vim. Kevin Vim's design is *theoretically* limited compared to Emacs'. However, working with Emacs (ESPECIALLY anything i18n) is a black art, and Vim's support for things like Python editing is better de facto because of the community. Ultimately, Emacs doesn't do much of signifigance (i.e., related to editing) better outside of Lisp. python-mode.el, for instance, is barely worth mentioning.
entering copied text into command mode?
I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it highlighted with just the keyboard? thanks! -lev
Re: Encoding problem
David Woodfall wrote:
SOLVED!
Well I think I fixed by rtfm:
:set termenc=cp1252
Seems to work, but I don't know yet whether it breaks anything else.
'termencoding' tells Vim (in both the Console and GUI versions) how your
keyboard translates data and (in the Console version only) how the terminal
displays it. By default it is set to empty, which means use the value of
'encoding'. This is OK as long as you don't change 'encoding' in your vimrc.
If you do, then it is prudent to save in 'termencoding' your locale
encoding, i.e., whatever 'encoding' was set to at startup, like this:
if has(multi_byte)if not, we don't have Unicode support
if enc !~? '^u' if 'encoding' starts with u or U,
then Unicode is already set
let tenc = encavoid clobbering the keyboard encoding
set enc=utf-8
endif
set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1heuristics for existing files
setglobal bomb fenc=latin1defaults for newly-created files
else
echomsg Warning: No multibyte support
endif
the following adds (among other things) the current 'fileencoding'
to the statusline text
if has(statusline)
exe 'set statusline=%%f\ %h%m%r%=%k[%{(fenc\ '
\ . '==\ \\?enc:fenc).(bomb?\,BOM\:\\)}]\ %l,%c%V[%b=0x%02B]\ %P'
endif
Best regards,
Tony.
--
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
On 2007-02-15, Theerasak Photha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/15/07, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it highlighted with just the keyboard? Assuming you're talking about ex commands, yes. You can type Ctrl-R to insert a register, then the name of any register, including the expression register, =. In your case, the name would probably be '+', so Ctrl-R+. I tried this on a Sun machine running vim in an xterm and running just gvim. In both cases, '+' didn't work but '*' did. HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: tips project
On 2007-02-16, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Google code has now added support for a wiki. This means open source projects can have a wiki that's free, fast and reliable (hopefully :-). http://code.google.com/hosting/ During my presentation last Tuesday the idea came up (again) to move the Vim tips to a wiki. The big advantage is that instead of having to read the notes below the tip to find out about improvements, the notes can be added in the right place, or even correct mistakes in the tip. I would like to ask for volunteers who want to take the current tips and notes, write some kind of script to move them to the wiki and set it up for use. If this works well we can delete the tips from the Vim website. They are currently closed for updates anyway, thus this is a good time to try it. Can one get an RSS feed from a wiki? Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
Theerasak Photha wrote:
On 2/15/07, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on
the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is
there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it
highlighted with just the keyboard?
Assuming you're talking about ex commands, yes.
You can type Ctrl-R to insert a register, then the name of any
register, including the expression register, =. In your case, the name
would probably be '+', so Ctrl-R+.
Of course, you should first copy the text to the clipboard in whatever program
you're pasting from. Register + is the Vim name for the clipboard. Under
Windows, but not under X11, register * is another name for the same thing.
If you're pasting within a single instance of Vim, then you don't have to go
through the clipboard: just yank any text using one of the following:
y{motion}
to yant what the cursor moves over, or
[count]yy
to yank one (or [count]) line(s), or
{Visual}y
to yank the highlighted text;
then, in Command-line mode or in Insert mode, Ctrl-R (i.e.,
control-R-for-Romeo double-quote) will insert the default register (containing
whatever you just yanked).
Best regards,
Tony.
--
But soft you, the fair Ophelia:
Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws,
But get thee to a nunnery -- go!
-- Mark The Bard Twain
Fwd: entering copied text into command mode?
-- Forwarded message -- From: Theerasak Photha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 15, 2007 8:45 PM Subject: Re: entering copied text into command mode? To: A. J. Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOPS On 2/15/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, you should first copy the text to the clipboard in whatever program you're pasting from. Register + is the Vim name for the clipboard. Under Windows, but not under X11, register * is another name for the same thing. On my system, + is for the Gtk clipboard, * is for the X clipboard. Subtle difference.
Re: tips project
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Hi all, Google code has now added support for a wiki. This means open source projects can have a wiki that's free, fast and reliable (hopefully :-). http://code.google.com/hosting/ During my presentation last Tuesday the idea came up (again) to move the Vim tips to a wiki. The big advantage is that instead of having to read the notes below the tip to find out about improvements, the notes can be added in the right place, or even correct mistakes in the tip. I would like to ask for volunteers who want to take the current tips and notes, write some kind of script to move them to the wiki and set it up for use. If this works well we can delete the tips from the Vim website. They are currently closed for updates anyway, thus this is a good time to try it. Using the project name VimTips would be good. Please don't create it unless you are going to set up the wiki! Ideally, the bulk of the work should be done by what wikis call a robot, i.e., some preprogrammed script. There will probably be a need for some hand-editing thereafter though. Best regards, Tony. -- I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. -- George McGovern
Re: Encoding problem
A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
David Woodfall wrote:
SOLVED!
Well I think I fixed by rtfm:
:set termenc=cp1252
Seems to work, but I don't know yet whether it breaks anything else.
'termencoding' tells Vim (in both the Console and GUI versions) how your
keyboard translates data and (in the Console version only) how the
terminal displays it. By default it is set to empty, which means use
the value of 'encoding'. This is OK as long as you don't change
'encoding' in your vimrc. If you do, then it is prudent to save in
'termencoding' your locale encoding, i.e., whatever 'encoding' was set
to at startup, like this:
ERRATUM
if has(multi_byte)if not, we don't have Unicode support
if enc !~? '^u' if 'encoding' starts with u or U,
then Unicode is already set
if tenc ==
let tenc = encavoid clobbering the keyboard encoding
endif
set enc=utf-8
endif
set fencs=ucs-bom,utf-8,latin1heuristics for existing files
setglobal bomb fenc=latin1defaults for newly-created files
else
echomsg Warning: No multibyte support
endif
the following adds (among other things) the current 'fileencoding'
to the statusline text
if has(statusline)
exe 'set statusline=%%f\ %h%m%r%=%k[%{(fenc\ '
\ . '==\ \\?enc:fenc).(bomb?\,BOM\:\\)}]\ %l,%c%V[%b=0x%02B]\
%P'
endif
Best regards,
Tony.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
-- Mark Twain
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
On 2007-02-16, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theerasak Photha wrote: On 2/15/07, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it highlighted with just the keyboard? Assuming you're talking about ex commands, yes. You can type Ctrl-R to insert a register, then the name of any register, including the expression register, =. In your case, the name would probably be '+', so Ctrl-R+. Of course, you should first copy the text to the clipboard in whatever program you're pasting from. Under X11, at least on my system, you don't have to explicitly yank or copy the text: text highlighted by the mouse automatically goes into the cut buffer (or the selection--I can't keep the two straight). The last text highlighted with the mouse is immediately available in the * register. Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: Fwd: entering copied text into command mode?
Theerasak Photha wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Theerasak Photha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 15, 2007 8:45 PM Subject: Re: entering copied text into command mode? To: A. J. Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] OOPS On 2/15/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, you should first copy the text to the clipboard in whatever program you're pasting from. Register + is the Vim name for the clipboard. Under Windows, but not under X11, register * is another name for the same thing. On my system, + is for the Gtk clipboard, * is for the X clipboard. Subtle difference. I don't know what the Gtk clipboard might be. On my system, + is for whatever is used for Edit = Copy, Edit = Cut and Edit = Paste in any X11 programs regardless of whether or not they are using Gtk widgets (Konqueror, for instance, uses Qt widgets and it has access to that same clipboard). I don't use the * register but I've been told it's used by middle-mouse pasting. Best regards, Tony. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 35. Your husband tells you he's had the beard for 2 months.
Re: Fwd: entering copied text into command mode?
On 2/15/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what the Gtk clipboard might be. On my system, + is for whatever is used for Edit = Copy, Edit = Cut and Edit = Paste in any X11 programs regardless of whether or not they are using Gtk widgets (Konqueror, for instance, uses Qt widgets and it has access to that same clipboard). I don't use the * register but I've been told it's used by middle-mouse pasting. Gtk and Qt share this clipboard then. Cool.
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
Gary Johnson wrote: On 2007-02-16, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theerasak Photha wrote: On 2/15/07, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it highlighted with just the keyboard? Assuming you're talking about ex commands, yes. You can type Ctrl-R to insert a register, then the name of any register, including the expression register, =. In your case, the name would probably be '+', so Ctrl-R+. Of course, you should first copy the text to the clipboard in whatever program you're pasting from. Under X11, at least on my system, you don't have to explicitly yank or copy the text: text highlighted by the mouse automatically goes into the cut buffer (or the selection--I can't keep the two straight). The last text highlighted with the mouse is immediately available in the * register. Regards, Gary Maybe -- I've never understood how to properly use the * register under X11. What comes from Edit = Copy (or Ctrl-C) in some non-Vim program arrives in the + register in gvim, and what I yank into the + register in gvim is available for Edit = Paste (or Ctrl-V) in any non-Vim program -- those I can understand. Best regards, Tony. -- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
On 2/15/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe -- I've never understood how to properly use the * register under X11. What comes from Edit = Copy (or Ctrl-C) in some non-Vim program arrives in the + register in gvim, and what I yank into the + register in gvim is available for Edit = Paste (or Ctrl-V) in any non-Vim program -- those I can understand. Simple. You select text, keep it selected, and then middle click somewhere to paste in. In Vim, you can of course use the * register. If you don't have a middle button or don't care to set up EmulateThreeButtons (click both buttons), depressing the mouse wheel until it goes *click* does the same thing. P.S. -- Don't use a Sun mouse with a PC even if it does have 3 buttons. Trust me. -- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. LOL @ your sig.
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
Theerasak Photha wrote: On 2/15/07, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] -- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. LOL @ your sig. :-) Courtesy of the fortune program available on SuSE Linux. (One time in five I vary it with the fortunes from Bram's site). Best regards, Tony. -- One seldom sees a monument to a committee.
Re: Feature request: off_t / off64_t
On 2/8/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Could someone please add off_t / off64_t to the C syntax file. I'll add off_t, I think it's a generic type. I don't know off64_t. Is that for Linux? Yeah I am not sure, leave it alone. This comes from the 64bits hackish API to read large file on unix. I don't know what microsoft came up with. I guess they use __int64. -Mathieu
Re: Web-based editing [Was :wq vs ZZ]
On 15Feb2007 15:30, James Kanze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 2/15/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm using It's All Text! now. Just had to create a shell script to | start gvim, because it doesn't allow you to give arguments to the | command. I'm using this (on Unix, obviously): | | #!/bin/sh | gvim -f $@ | | I can't seem to get it to work; gvim comes up all right, but as | if it was started without any file arguments. Adding an echo to | the shell script shows that in fact, it isn't being passed any | arguments. Is there something special I have to do in the | preferences of It's All Text! to tell it how to pass a | filename. Um, no? It should just work. IAT only lets you supply the path to the edit command, so it must pass the file as an argument - it seems to for my setup. You're certain the script gets not arguments - you're echoing $# and $* ? | Store this in a file, make it executable, and set it from | Tools/Add-ons/It's All Text/Preferences | | The plugin can be found here: | https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4125/ | | Warning: If you set the preferences to use Vim firefox gets stuck. | | Not if you've started it from an xterm; vim comes up in the | xterm. (But Firefox does hang until you exit vim.) That's surprising. -- Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at the closing of the day. Rage, rage at the dying of the light!
Re: Feature request: off_t / off64_t
On 15Feb2007 22:59, Mathieu Malaterre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 2/8/07, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Mathieu Malaterre wrote: |Could someone please add off_t / off64_t to the C syntax file. | | I'll add off_t, I think it's a generic type. | I don't know off64_t. Is that for Linux? | | Yeah I am not sure, leave it alone. This comes from the 64bits hackish | API to read large file on unix. I don't know what microsoft came up | with. I guess they use __int64. It's a standard type for POSIX. Include it! Look in unistd.h. -- Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers. :-) - Larry Wall regarding 10_000_000 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help needed on pt_BR spell checking
Leonardo Fontenelle wrote: Hello, Bram, thanks for the reply! I'm sorry, but I can't find the famous $RUNTIMEPATH/spell/*.diff files. They are don't seem to be part of the vim or the vim-spell-xx packages in gentoo, and I can't find them in vim's ftp server. I can't find the a-a-p recipes either... I'm sorry if this should be more obvious, but I'm stuck. When I can make a good pt_BR vimspell file I'll contact the pt_PT people to see how are we going to maintain vim dictionaries. You can find the spell *.diff files in the Unix archive and the PC runtime archive. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 131. You challenge authority and society by portnuking people /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org///
vim on calcs, PDAs, palms
Calculators these days have plenty of RAM on them, as do the other hand-held gadgets. C (cross)compilers exist for them all. I'd like to know if any ports of vim to them are supported out of the box, without changing the code. I've seen ports of vim to odd architectures, but I think some of the ports have not been merged into vim's source code.
Re: entering copied text into command mode?
On Friday 16 February 2007, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Maybe -- I've never understood how to properly use the * register under X11. What comes from Edit = Copy (or Ctrl-C) in some non-Vim program arrives in the + register in gvim, and what I yank into the + register in gvim is available for Edit = Paste (or Ctrl-V) in any non-Vim program -- those I can understand. In short: X has, in addition to the regular clipboard, a selection buffer. When you copy/cut text, it is placed in the clipboard (register + in vim). When you select text with the mouse it's placed in the selection buffer (register * in vim) without touching the clipboard. -- Erlend Hamberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
setlocal enc=utf8 and mappings
Hi all :) I'm having a problem that I know how to solve, but I wonder if I'm doing the right thing... Some weeks ago I asked a couple of things about encodings on the list, and based on the answers, I finally did a proper setup to edit UTF-8 files from time to time in my latin1 terminal, while at the same time treating new ASCII files as latin1 and not utf-8. This works OK. But now my problem is the following. I've chosen ç as my mapleader. This is due its position in my keyboard. BUT, its code in latin1 is 0xe7 and, in utf8 it's 0xc3+0xa7. This means (and this is my problem) that if I set setlocal enc=utf8, I'm no longer able to use it as my mapleader as-is. I still generate ç when I press it, of course, and vim translates it onto something my terminal understands as ç. I assumed that it was doing the same for mappings, but it is not. Am I doing anything wrong? Should I set another thing so even with enc=utf8 my high-bit-set-mapleader still works? Should I set mapleader to the utf8 value? Thanks a lot in advance :) Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!
