Re: Selecting font size
Tim Johnson wrote: when I choose the font size, the font that is loaded is very different from what was installed when i started and is far from appealing. Is it a bitmap font? You can recognize a bitmap font from the sharp edges and pixellated appearance. Bitmap fonts come in only one size, so if that's the case you don't have much choice but to change font. Fortunately there are usually a wealth of fixed bitmap fonts of varying size and shape to choose from and you can find a ton more on the web, both free and commercial. If it's not a bitmap font, then it's a strange behaviour. Can you post screenshots of both fonts you get, before and after changing size? Maybe some of us will recognize them. (Don't send picture files directly to the list, it's considered rude. Rather, upload them to your web space, to http://imageshack.us/ or to another such service and post the link to the picture.) Tobia
Re: ex editor
Tim Chase wrote: I'm likely one of the scant few who still wants Vim to support true open mode (:help :open). Not urgently, but there are times it would have been handy. Fortunately, I've got some older versions of vi that do support it for those scarse occasions I want it. Can you please expand on what :open does and what it's useful for? :help :open tells me nothing at all :-( Tobia
Re: Open all folds in the current fold?
Tim Chase wrote: I'm trying to find/create a command that acts somewhat like zO/zR for within an existing fold. The behavior I'm looking for is that if I'm within an existing fold, it recursively opens all the folds within the current fold: Try zczO If it does what you want, you can map it to some zX combination that's currently unused (or redundant) Tobia
Edit output of external command
Is there a better (faster?) way to edit the output of an external prog in a new tab or window, than to filter the new buffer through it? :tabnew|%!svn diff Tobia
Re: OT: Vi in a browser...
Gene Kwiecinski wrote: Speaking of which, is there any quicker way to visually select the entire file, analogous to ^A in other systems? To copy the entire file to the system clipboard, you can do: :%y+ Rpelace y with d if you want to cut instead of copy. Replace + with * if you want to use middle-click to paste (on X11.) Tobia
Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
Howard Glynn wrote: In essence I would like to collapse huge (single) lines of tags to something like a id=xyz href=/img ... There is a simple solution, maybe too simple, but... if you only have one tag per line, or if you can reformat your file in such a way, it might be enough to disable line wrap: :set nowrap You can map a function key to toggling line wrap: :map F9 :set wrap!CR Type that literally, with and everything, or put it into ~/.vimrc HTH Tobia
Re: copying text char-by-char from the line above line..
François Pinard wrote: At first, I had some difficulty remembering Ctrl-Y, until I decided that Y was a picture of what was going on: that is, funneled from above. Now, I use it very often. Ctrl-E copies from the line below, often useful too, yet it is harder to see an upside-down Y into E :-). It's easier to remember if you already know what C-Y and C-E do in normal made (they scroll the page) Tobia
Re: Vim over cifs share
Fabien Meghazi wrote: I've got a problem while editing files through a cifs share. (probably a datestamp problem) Each time I write buffer to the opened file, vim prompts this : WARNING: The file has been changed since reading it!!! Do you really want to write to it (y/n)? I know it's not an answer to what you asked, but I've usually been able to fix this issue by: - ntpdate pool.ntp.org (or equivalent time sync command) on the client - ntpdate pool.ntp.org (or equivalent time sync command) on the server - umount and mount the share Tobia
Re: bullet points and paragraph indenting
Troy Piggins wrote: When I intend to type a list of bullet points, I start with a - . If I type more than one line for that bullet point, the second line is automatically indented 2 spaces, so the text lines up with the first line's text. However if I type more than 2 lines, the third line starts at beginning of line set autoindent Tobia
Re: Why bottom-posting is prefered on Vim Mainling List?
A slightly OT note, which amazingly is more IT than the thread itself Uhhh, that's not my doing, as the text gets resplit/rewrapped somewhere else along the line. About the only thing I could do is manually split it shorter than the default (whatever that is) Reformatting the quoted blocks (gq} or visual+gq as you like best) while you're formatting your email works quite well. Tobia
Re: Remapping mouse-wheel
Waters, Bill wrote: When I have a split window (horizontal or vertical), the mouse wheel only works in one of the two splits. It works in either (as it should) when I do a CTRL-mouse-wheel. I don't think I understand your problem. Ctrl-mouse wheel has no particular effect on my system (Vim 7.1 Gtk on Debian) and it's not supposed to, according to the manual. On my Vim the mouse wheel only scrolls in the active window, both with and without Ctrl, I am looking for a work-around to this problem. If I understand you correctly, you want the mouse wheel to always scroll in all windows simultaneously? Then put this in your .vimrc: set scrollbind HTH Tobia
Vim to Vi (Was: weird defaults in Feisty)
David Nečas (Yeti) wrote:
it's a bit strange when a vim user describes vi as `crazy' and `so
weird'...
It may sound strange to us Vim veterans, but it's what I would expect.
My path to learning Vi/Vim (which took place at the same time as my
learning of GNU/Linux, by the way) was as follows:
1. Use it as a Notepad with weird save/quit commands (esc:wcr ...)
Always in insert mode, only using the arrows, Del, BS, Home, End, and
hitting Esc and 'u' like crazy whenever something weird happened.
2. Learn copy paste, first line-wise (dd yy p P), then selection-wise
(v V ^V y d, still only using the arrow keys.
At this point (a few months?) I was already as productive as with my
former Windows editor of choice! (something like TextEdit™ or TextPad™)
3. Learn that command mode is actually useful for moving around in the
file (gg, G, {, }) and opening two files at a time (:e, C-^)
4. Other stuff (complex movements, buffers/windows/tabs, registers,
macros, mappings, autocommands, folding, custom syntax files...)
This timeline might look non-linear, in fact I believe that learning Vim
is an exponential task to the engaged user, and that's a very good thing!
The point is: I don't consider my learning path in any way peculiar, and
if Vim had suddenly reverted to Vi while I was in phases 1 to 3, I would
have looked at my computer with a blank, baffled expression on my face.
Tobia
Right click = toggle fold
Hi I just wanted to share this little mapping I've come up with: :map RightMouse LeftMouseza It makes right-clicking on a fold toggle it opened/closed. Using the mouse wheel all the time to scroll around in GVim, I find this very useful for navigating big files, especially with automatic syntax- or indent-folding. Scroll, click (expand), read, click (collapse), scroll some more... Tobia
Javascript syntax folding
How can I enable syntax folding in Javascript files? The syntax file seems to support it, controlled by a variable named javaScript_fold, but setting it in my vimrc or on the command line doesn't seem to do anything: let javaScript_fold=1 vim -u /dev/null +let javaScript_fold=1 file.js What am I doing wrong? Tobia -- «A one-time pad isn't a cryptosystem: it's a state of mind.» —Marcus Ranum
Re: Newbee question:Why don't I have the syntax highlighting when editing files like *.sh *.xml,etc?
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: /etc/vim/vimrc is a strange location for a system vimrc It is a very intuitive location. In Debian all system-wide configuration files are in /etc/package name/ I know just enough Chinese to understand that 大 on the fourth line means big, so I can guess that that fourth line probably means Big version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): That would explain the problem. To the original poster: try adding the following line to /etc/vim/gvimrc.local (create it if needed) source /etc/vim/vimrc Tobia
Re: repeat replace many time on each line
Bob Hiestand wrote:
Tobia wrote:
Arnaud Bourree wrote:
I've Xml document with attribute likes:
foo=00 12 AF
I want to replace with:
foo=0x00 0x12 0xAF
this works:
%s/\%(\%(foo=\\)\@=\%([0-9A-F]\{2\}\s\)*\)\@=\([0-9A-F]\{2\}\)/0x\1/g
In using :s with the /g flag, I take it the potential changes are
marked first, and then executed, per line?
It would seem so.
By the way, I would have used a simpler pattern for such a task:
%s/\v%(foo\=[^]*)@=(\x\x)/0x\1/g
I prefer when dealing with that many special characters to use the
very-magic form
Me too. I can't stand trying to match \( \) with my eyes, they just
don't look right, not to mention \{ \? \+... Egrep and Perl have it
right. I wish I could turn very-magic on by default.
Tobia
Re: mapping for jumping to a tag
Dimitar wrote: * Tobia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070331 20:35]: :map C-J C-] works here. Did you try this in a help file? :help then go to a tag and press c-j Yes, I tried it in a help window, both in console Vim and in GVim, before posting. I don't know where else I can find tags! Try starting vim -u NONE / gvim -U NONE and see if the problem persists. Tobia
Re: Monospaced font problem
Pablo Arantes wrote:
I contacted the author of Pragmata to share my concerns but he
couldn't help me much in this respect. I explained him the problem but
I'm not sure he understood it.
I emailed him too. We share our first language, so maybe he will
understand me better.
I wonder if there is a feasible way to change this specification myself.
I had a look at the TTF file format[1] and it's quite easy. I have
attached a small Python script that will query, set or clear the
monospaced flag on a TTF file. Run it with no arguments to get help.
Remember to operate on a copy of the font file and to install/uninstall
the font through Windows's Control Panel. That is: make a copy of the
font file; set the flag on it; uninstall the currently installed font;
install the modified version; profit.
Tobia
[1]
http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6.html
http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6post.html
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, getopt, struct
def get_post_off(f):
f.seek(0)
data = f.read(512)
post_off = None
for i in range(30):
off = 12 + 16 * i
tag = data[off : off + 4]
if tag == 'post':
post_off = struct.unpack('I', data[off + 8 : off +
12])[0]
break
if not post_off:
raise 'ERROR: cannot find table post in the font directory'
return post_off
def get_mono(f):
post_off = get_post_off(f)
f.seek(post_off + 12)
mono = struct.unpack('i', f.read(4))[0]
return mono
def set_mono(f, n):
post_off = get_post_off(f)
f.seek(post_off + 12)
f.write(struct.pack('i', n))
if __name__ == '__main__':
def usage():
print 'usage: ttfmono [-su] file.ttf'
print ' -s set the monospaced flag'
print ' -u unset the monospaced flag'
print ' otherwise: query the monospaced flag'
sys.exit(1)
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'su')
opts = dict(opts)
opt_set = '-s' in opts
opt_unset = '-u' in opts
if len(args) != 1: usage()
if opt_set and opt_unset: usage()
if opt_set or opt_unset:
ttf_file = open(args[0], 'r+')
else:
ttf_file = open(args[0])
if not ttf_file: usage()
if opt_set:
set_mono(ttf_file, 1)
elif opt_unset:
set_mono(ttf_file, 0)
print 'monospaced flag =', get_mono(ttf_file)
print sys.stderr, '(0 = variable-width, otherwise = monospaced)'
ttf_file.close()
Re: invoking yanked register into colon command
Guillaume Bog wrote: What I used to do is selecting it with mouse and type :%s/ctrl-ins/newname/gc Is there a way to do this with the mouse I guess you mean with the keyboard. Yes, there is. Ctrl-R /pull to the commandline the last search pattern Ctrl-R ...the last unnamed delete or yank Ctrl-R *...the current selection (X11 only) Ctrl-R +...the clipboard contents Ctrl-R x...the contents of register x Ctrl-R Ctrl-W ...the current word under the cursor See :help c_CTRL-R Tobia
Re: delete all but first occurence of a pattern
I don't think Vim's regular expressions are the best tool for this job. I mean, XML manipulation is much easier done in XSLT: ?xml version=1.0? xsl:stylesheet version=1.0 xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xsl:template match=article xsl:copy xsl:copy-of select=@*/ AuthorList CompleteYN=Y Author ValidYN=Y xsl:copy-of select=AuthorList/Author[1]/*/ /Author /AuthorList xsl:copy-of select=node()[not(self::AuthorList)]/ /xsl:copy /xsl:template /xsl:stylesheet This does what you want in your example, assuming the source is a proper XML document (among other things there must be a root tag encompassing all the articles.) Invoke with xsltproc fix-authors.xsl articles.xml or with any other XSLT tool. To get back on-topic, I find these scripts make working with XSLT a bit less painful: xslhelper.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1364 closetag.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=13 This, on the other hand, is on my list of things to check, but I still haven't got around to checking it out: xml.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1397 Tobia
Re: mapping for jumping to a tag
Dimitar wrote: I also tried to map c-j to c-] but it also didn't work. Uh? :map C-J C-] works here. Tobia
Re: Help on search and replace
Dudley Fox wrote: Starting text: nameTable[pattern with spaces0] = (pattern with spaces0, 12345) Desired Text: nameTable[patternwithspaces0] = (pattern with spaces0, 12345) Notwithstanding the usefulness of sub-replace-special, which I also discovered in this thread, I find zero-width look-ahead/behind assertions to be very powerful: :%s/\v(\[[^]]*)@=\s//g ( \[ [^]]* )@= \s I also happen to like \v, but that's just syntactic sugar! Tobia
Re: Customizing vim: How to change the char before commands
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: fREW wrote: So is there a way we could swap the ; and : keys? I hardly ever use ; but it would be nice to still have it available as : The following lines in your vimrc should do it: noremap ; : noremap : ; Except that you still have to type : in some places, such as in Hit ENTER or type command to continue prompts. Tobia
Re: case-sens in completion on Mac OS X
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: I am running Vim 7.0.218, the latest build from macvim.org. I run the vim binary from inside the app bundle at the console to get my terminal vim. My filesystem is case-sensitive HFS+, but vim's filename completion acts case-insensitive. This is driving me CRAZY. Case-sensitivity ef filename completion is a compile-time option. It is set at misc1.c:8892 (Vim 7.0) from the CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME define, which is only defined at os_unix.h:44 and only if compiling under Cygwin. It would seem that the macvim.org developers explicitly enabled this feature. If you only use console Vim, you might have better luck with the one provided by Darwinports or Fink. Otherwise you might need to recompile Vim following the steps of the macvim.org guys, or ask for their help. Tobia
Re: How to turn a q recording into a map?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Somehow it never occured to me that I could view and edit the contents
of a recording. Of course, it's just a register, so I pasted the register;
edited the contents; then yanked the lines back into the register...
and naturally this worked fine.
This is going to be immensely useful! Thanks for the heads up
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?
Like this?
:map {key} {C-R register}
For example if you want to save register q as F2:
:map F2 {C-R q}
where you actually type C-R q at the prompt.
If you like your new mapping and want to make it permanent:
- open your ~/.vimrc in a new window/tab/buffer
- bring up the commandline window (q:)
- find the map comand you used
- yank it (yy)
- close the commandline window (C-C C-C)
- paste it
Tobia
Re: hosting wiki tips
Michael F. Lamb wrote: I was not around for the previous discussion on this topic and I haven't sifted through the archives yet. Is the community consensus basically pro-wiki but contentious on an implementation / hosting choice? I'm new to this mailing list so I don't know either. In any case I'd like to mention DokuWiki http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki In my experience it's very easy to set up and maintain, it's featureful, lightweight and it has persistent history, so it doesn't need any more backupping than any server needs and hosting providers already offer. If there's a prominent spam problem, we could always restrict write access to registered mailing list members. Tobia
Re: specific lines SR question
Eric Leenman wrote:
entity HALFADDER is
port(
A, B : in bit;
SUM, CARRY: out bit);
end entity HALFADDER;
component HALFADDER
port(
A, B : in bit;
SUM, CARRY: out bit);
end component;
Is it then easy to replace the first and last line of these 5 lines of
entity code to 5 lines of component code by pressing i.e. F5?
Sure!
Here it is, based on your examples:
:map F5 j{/^entityCRcecomponentESC/ isCRD/^end
entityCRwCcomponent;ESC0
It works when invoked inside the entity block or just before it.
Explanation (spaces added for clarity, literal spaces marked with ␣):
j { go down one line and up a paragraph (so that it
works inside the block or one line before it)
/^entity CR go to the next 'entity' at the start of a line
ce component ESC change that word to 'component'
/␣is CR go to the ' is'
D delete it (delete to the end of line)
/^end␣entity CR go to the next 'end entity'
w skip a word ('end')
C component; ESC change the rest of the line to 'component;'
0 go back to the start of the line
Tune it as needed :-)
Tobia
Re: Undo Levels Reset
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: When I save a file, undo levels are kept. Using u then undoes, but marks the file as modified. Using Ctrl-R redoes, and the 'modified' flag will disappear when the file-in-memory is identical to the file-on-disk. This is my experience as well. Undo levels are only lost when I close Vim, when I reopen the file with :e, or when Vim alerts me that the file has been changed and reloads it. The latter can be dangerous if you're not careful, and I'd appreciate any tips to work around it. Tobia
Re: Count characters
Harald Kröll wrote: a command or script to count the characters without syntax words. For example for people who write LaTeX documents in vim and have to control their length... That depends on the definition of a control word. If you only want to exclude \backslash_prefixed \words, and nothing else, then this will do: :%s/\(\\\w*\)\@!\w//gn Explanation (right to left): //gncount ALL… \w …letters, numbers, and underscores… \@!…NOT preceded by… \( \\ \w* \)…a backslash and possibly other letters/numbers I'm not too familiar with Latex syntax, but if you wanted to exclude \this[kind of thing] as well, it wouldn't be hard: :%s/\v(\\\w*(\[[^]]*)?)@!\w//gn ( \\ \w* ( \[ [^]]* )? )@! \w Tobia
Re: highlighting weird characters...
Mitch Wiedemann wrote: non-visually detectable characters (which I assume are high ASCII) If I may nitpick, high ASCII is not the right terminology here. The ASCII table only contains 128 characters, with codes 0…127 (where only codes 32…126 have a visual representation.) What you call high ASCII are Unicode characters that are autside ASCII, or Latin-1 characters that are autside ASCII. In both cases they have codes greater than 127. Is there a way I can have my Vim highlight these characters so I can see them and replace them with their HTML counterparts? I usually do a :set hls (highlight search results) followed by /[^ -~] (search for any character that is not between space and tilde, ie. that is not a printable character from the ASCII set.) You can add the tab character (with Ctrl-V Tab) inside the square brackets if you use it in your documents. It will show as /[^ -~^I] with a blue ^I. This has the added benefit of hitting n to get to the next one. Tobia
Close tab / delete buffer?
I'm an avid user of the new tabbed interface in Vim 7, maybe because I never understood how to use hidden buffers effectively. One of the things I dislike about Vim's tabs is that when I close one, by means of :q or ZZ, its buffer is not deleted. This means that my Vim accumulates open file descriptors and swap files all over the place, unless I periodically fix the situation by hand with :ls and :bd Is there a reason for this bizarre behaviour? I usually open files with :tabe when I need them, switch tabs, do my job, and close them with ZZ or :q when my focus shifts to other files or when I see too many tabs on the screen. Is this usage pattern suboptimal? Tobia PS I find these handy: map F11 gT map F12 gt
