* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.05.29 05:15]:
See, though I always do trim, I still suffered
from those who do not trim and use
bottom-posting.
I take it your mail program doesn't have a
hide-quoted-text function. Who says text-based
mail programs are primitive? :-)
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JR
* A.J.Mechelynck [2007.05.15 08:01]:
If you had, as I already told you twice (this is
the third one) done
:set fileformats=
:e ++ff=dos list02.p
:w
your file would have been repaired immediately.
SO WHY DIDN'T YOU?
Or equivalently:
:e list02.p
GAC-VC-MESC add ^M at
* Normandie Azucena [2007.05.09 09:30]:
this will seem to be a dumb question.
what is omni-completion?
How can I use it in vim?
How can I create my own?
Have you given
:h omni-completion
a try?
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JR
* Ben Kovitz [2007.04.19 20:00]:
Is there a way to make filename completion
(pressing tab at the command line in :find) use
all the directories in the 'path'?
Not exactly what you ask, but here is a nice
little script I use quite a bit which you might
find helpful:
* shawn bright [2007.04.18 12:45]:
is there a way i can permanently set the font
for gvim ? i can't find a config file for it.
:h 'guifont'
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JR
* Eric Leenman [2007.04.17 04:15]:
Is it possible to select the right word with
another key then the enter-key, and thus staying
on the same line before CTRL-N was pressed at
all?
Yes, just continue typing...
See:
:h popupmenu-keys
It defines the only keys which are special in the
popup
* Gene Kwiecinski [2007.04.16 11:45]:
Displays ^I just fine, but trashes actual
indentation, at least for me (dunno if there's
any magical 'vim' setting, like :set
keepindent or something).
set listchars+=tab:-
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JR
* shawn bright [2007.04.15 20:15]:
Hey there, i am looking for a command that will
delete all whitespace up until the first
character.
for example
[]some_characters
[]some_characters.
:s/^\[\]\zs\s*//
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JR
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.04.12 10:30]:
I can set the font in gvim using:
Set guifont=
But how do I do the same with console vim?
You change the console font. :-)
If you use cygwin I can tell you how I do it for
rxvt or xterm.
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JR
* Przemyslaw Gawronski [2007.04.09 09:45]:
:argdo %s/\//g | updateCR
is not special, so no need to quote it.
:argdo %s///g | updateCR
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JR
* alebo [2007.04.09 15:00]:
But if I use another kind of deletion like dw, I
couldnt fetch it from the buffers 1-9, only from
the first unnamed buffer. Why is this so and
which kind of delete operations are supported in
the delete buffers?
If you delete less than one line, the data is put
in
* Tom Purl [2007.04.05 10:30]:
On Thu, April 5, 2007 2:38 am, ³Â·½ÈÙ wrote:
If I want to open one 1G bytes size
file,it's really slow.
I suggest splitting it into smaller chunks with
another tool.
Just out of curiosity, why are you trying to
edit a 1 GB file with any text editor?
* Tom Purl [2007.04.05 12:00]:
I need to do that quite often. They are usually
log files from a long running program in debug
mode.
Actually, you can think of a log file as a sort
of flat file database. Here's an example
I appreciate all the help but I really don't have
a problem with
* Michael Klier [2007.04.04 17:30]:
I am sure this has been questioned before but why is the
Reply-To: header field not set via the mailing-list?
Short answer: because it makes it more difficult
to reply to the author without making it easier to
reply to the list.
Long answer:
* Christophe Dupre [2007.03.27 07:15]:
Here is what I get when I do copen.
|| ccsc main.c +FH +P +DC +LO +EA +STDOUT I+=..\Includes
|| Warning 201 C:\Project\Test\OnlineMS\Firmware\Source\rs232.c
Line 48(1,1): Assignment inside relational expression
|| *** Error 12
* Eddine [2007.03.27 09:45]:
ENTRY
184
185
**;
186 * PGMs Complexes 1 : enable - O : disable
*;
187
* oskar [2007.03.27 11:25]:
I have a vim script which I want to use to
search replace a part out of a given line. The
fields in the line are based on field length and
the field I want to change starts at position 33
and ends after 4 charachter.
Sample data and the result you expect would
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.23 19:45]:
I was thinking that there should be a way to
take the register lines and automatically turn
them into an noremap (including adding the @ to
start register playback). Has anyone perfected
this?
If you want your mapping to follow the (possibly
changing)
* Harald Kröll [2007.03.22 13:30]:
Is there some function or script to count
characters (letters without whitespaces) in vim?
One way is to use the 'substitute' command's
ability to tell you how many items it replaced. So
if you type:
:%s/\S//g
You will get a message saying how many non-blank
* Some user [2007.03.22 15:00]:
RANT
Though I don't really get the reason why every
command is preceded by colon.
Not to nitpick, but commands themselves don't
really care about the colon. The colon is used to
*change mode*.
In normal mode, you can just type away your
commands
* Bram Moolenaar [2007.03.20 11:45]:
How many times did I repeat a command just because
I had pressed Space one time too many...
You can type g to go back to the messages.
Thanks! Didn't know about that.
Reading the help, this only brings back the last
viewed page of messages though. Not
* Peng Yu [2007.03.16 16:30]:
Can somebody let me know how to show the current
value of path?
:set path?
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JR
* Peng Yu [2007.03.13 12:15]:
Suppose I have horizontal splited window1 and
window2, is there any way to change them into
vertical split and vice versa?
CTRL-W H
CTRL-W J
Note the capital H and J.
--
JR
* Bin Chen [2007.03.02 09:45]:
If I am in line 100, now I want to search a key
which will lead me to wherever. I want to back
to the place before the seach, can vim support
anchor for me to back?
If I understand your question, CTRL-O will do what
you want.
:h CTRL-O
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JR
* Eric Leenman [2007.03.01 13:30]:
How were you planning to use those?
I want to use these as cut, paste and copy iso
CTRL-X, V and C.
Cutting and copying are compound operations in the
sense that you need to specify /what/ they are
going to act on. There are many ways to do this,
depending
* Eric Leenman [2007.02.28 08:00]:
Is it possible to map the - and + and * keys on
the nummerical section of a keyboard (in other
words the keys in the group where the num-lock
key is also)
That part of the keyboard is sometimes referred to
as the keypad. You can refer to those keys in
vim
* Peter Michaux [2007.02.26 22:00]:
Does vim have the concept of a project of files?
You might want to look at this:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69
Found by searching vim.org with the keyword
'project'.
HTH,
--
JR
* Peng Yu [2007.02.22 11:15]:
I have a C++ project in some dir say project
or its subdir. Although I can use find and grep
outside vim to search for any word in project.
But this is not very convenient.
Well you can use an external grep from within vim.
One advantage is that it's relatively
* Peng Yu [2007.02.22 16:15]:
I read the help. But I still don't see how to search in all the *.h
and *.cc in a certain directory. Do I have to rely on the external
command find?
It would help if you told us what version of vim
you use and what you tried.
If you have vim 7, you can use:
* Muddassirali Mirzani [2007.02.21 07:30]:
Is there a way to display only the lines that match
a search pattern and hide/fold others.
The foldutil plugin makes that very easy. I use it
quite a bit.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=158
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JR
* Gene Kwiecinski [2007.02.13 17:00]:
[...]
I never liked :wq, because you gotta do
depress shift
:
release shift
w
q
enter
For most actions in vim, I too often look for the
very fastest, fewest-keystrokes way. However
quitting is not one of them.
I
* 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
* neolistic [2007.01.23 10:15]:
* Jean-Rene David-2 wrote:
See here for a possible solution:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/index.php?subject=faqtitle=FAQ#faq-e-acute
I think this solution can work but I don't have
the perms for the plugin direcory, is there a
solution to unmap
* Samuel Wright [2007.01.11 06:15]:
I have a todo list of single line entries.
I'd like to fold everything away apart from a custom seach, say
:customsearch urgent
would fold away all lines that did not contain urgent.
Has this been done already in some way?
Yes.
* Silva, Paulo [2007.01.08 11:30]:
I'm trying to do a replace in a selection.
After selecting the area, with v, directional keys, v again (or not -
both give the same result).
Then I type
:%s/\%V20/21/
Don't know why it doesn't work on your end. Works
here. In any case, to do what you
* Chuck Mason [2006.12.13 17:15]:
In :help it follows links
(Maybe there's a helptags file?).
Bingo.
:h helptags
[...]
For instance I have a line that looks like:
... sometext somenumber1 someothertext2
And if the user presses C-] anywhere on the line I would like to take
* Lev Lvovsky [2006.12.05 13:53]:
how can I align text under and after the cursor
position to a specific column number?
:.,$s/^\s*/ /g
will align the first non-blank on the fourth
column, from the cursor's line to the end of the
file.
and probably just as important, how can I
find
* Samuel Wright [2006.11.27 11:15]:
The regular expression works if I call it
directly, but when I write
:function FixJHIndex
it just echoes the function definition. What am
I missing?
:function does exactly as documented.
You want:
:call FixJHIndex()
See
:h :call
:h :function
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JR
* atstake atstake [2006.11.26 20:45]:
[...]
eg. if it's a .pl file it would do perl
filename, show the result and if there's any
error it would take me to the line where the
error is.
Is there any easy way to do this with functions?
Any example would be greatly appreciated.
To change the
Is there any way to search for text in open folds
only? For example, if fold 1 and fold 2 below are
closed and fold 3 is open, and placing the cursor
on the line which says Start search here, I
would like to end up on the foo in fold 3 when
typing /fooCR.
Start search here
{{{
fold1
foo
* Tim Chase [2006.11.09 17:30]:
:map f4 :let @/='~'cr
Using :match also works, and doesn't modify @/.
:match Search '~'
Note that this gives a warning if no previous
replacement string exists.
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JR
* Gary Johnson [2006.11.04 18:30]:
When you open file A, then open file B, then
want to go back to A, you don't do so by
quitting B--you explicitly open A.
Looking at it that way, it makes good sense.
Thanks again for all the suggestions.
--
JR
Say I open vim7's new super duper file explorer
netrw to browse some local directory. Say then I
decide I don't want to open any new file and just
want to go back to what I was doing. What would be
the standard way to do that?
I can use C-O to eventually land up where I was
but I need to
* victor NOAGBODJI [2006.11.02 11:45]:
Just looking for something like that in gvim.
Do you know something like that?
Searching for project on www.vim.org yields many
hits.
I use the project plugin. I like it, despite
some warts.
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JR
* Yakov Lerner [2006.10.23 07:00]:
If you look at lines 879-884 of the left pane,
and lines 1583-1588 of the right pane you can
see blue signs near line numbers. What do they
signify ?
They mean those lines are an open diff fold.
I just did vimdiff and no special options.
What do they
* Jeff Lanzarotta [2006.10.19 13:13]:
If there a way to check and see if the listchar
is actually set or not?
For options I change often, I use the following to
display its value in the statusline.
function! OptSet(opt, string)
if(exists(a:opt) expand(a:opt))
return a:string
else
* Robert Cussons [2006.10.18 06:30]:
I did notice that between the if and else there
are which just act as comments as they are on
newlines,
Sorry, I should have known that wouldn't come out
right. There's a literal newline between the
quotes. You can enter it by pressing
CTRL-VCTRL-M.
* Benji Fisher [2006.10.18 09:15]:
I try to avoid such problems by not including raw CR, ESC, etc.
characters in my vim scripts. I suggest replacing the two :execute
lines with
execute normal ? . l:pattern . \CR
and
execute normal / . l:pattern . \CR
I was looking for a way
* Robert Cussons [2006.10.18 09:29]:
Everything seems to work fine now, except the
searched for items aren't highlighted like they
normally are when I search
Whether or not search items are highlighted
depends on the value of the 'hlsearch' option.
The search item gets highlighted on my end
* Naim Far [2006.10.18 13:00]:
Does any body know a way of automatically going
from header file to its implementation file?!
and vice versa?!
a.vim : Alternate Files quickly (.c -- .h etc)
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=31
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JR
* A.J.Mechelynck [2006.10.18 23:30]:
Reply to Sender is meant to reply only to the author of an email.
Reply to All is meant to reply to the author and all other recipients.
Reply to All usually results in the author
receiving duplicates. However since most mailers
offer nothing but those two
* Lev Lvovsky [2006.10.17 17:15]:
Is it possible to search for a string by
selecting that string in visual mode? Meaning,
if I highlight something, and then want to
search for that thing which is highlighted in
the rest of the doc?
You already got lots of good answers. Here's
another one.
* Ivan Vecerina [2006.10.03 12:15]:
[...]
Best case, I can type: ESClv
[...]
Is there an easy way to do so ?
According to
:h i_esc
there is not builtin way to do this. But you could
use a mapping:
imap F8 esclv
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JR
* Russell Bateman [2006.09.08 15:30]:
You see that pretty well anything you can do on
the ex command line in Vim (:set ignorecase,
etc.), you can put in these modelines.
That's not true. You can only set options.
Excerpt from :help modeline:
No other commands than set are supported, for
I've been using the Project plugin for many years
now and I like it a lot. However one problem keeps
bugging me.
I would like to share my ~/.vimprojects file
between my cygwin and windows version of vim.
The problem is the paths for the project. When I
enter a posix path, the windows version
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