Re[2]: mbox format archive?

2007-05-29 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 29 May 2007, A.J.Mechelynck apparently wrote: Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds of reactions: Me too, me too and Don't, you fool, he may be a spammer harvesting addresses. I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, waiting for the situation to

OT: net neutrality comments to FCC

2007-05-16 Thread Alan G Isaac
Apologies if this is too off topic! (And it mostly interests US residents, I think.) I am looking at this through the lens of securing my access to the Vim website. The FCC is accepting public comment on Docket 07-52, In the Matter of Broadband Industry Practices. Essential, large ISPs are

Re: OT: net neutrality comments to FCC

2007-05-16 Thread Alan G Isaac
Someone wrote: Here is the URL for submitting e-mail comments: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/email.html I found it by starting at the FCC home page, www.fcc.gov and following the link from the left side-bar labeled Filing Public Comments, main. That page didn't have 07-52, so I followed

rst syntax file: grid tables not handled

2007-05-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
The rst syntax file of 2006-04-19 does not recognize the end of grid tables. Is there an update that fixes this? Thank you, Alan Isaac

Re: problem loading Python dll

2007-04-02 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Johan du Preez apparently wrote: I have installed Python 2.5, but vim does not appear to see it? How do I solve this one!. :h python-dynamic hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Vim Help for deleting alternate lines in text

2007-03-31 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, (IST) Auro Ashish Saha apparently wrote: i could not get any result But did you try :%norm jdd as suggested at http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html ?? Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: restructured text syntax file problem

2007-02-22 Thread Alan G Isaac
Alan G Isaac a écrit : Single character literals are not handled correctly: for example, ``x`` will product highlighting of the subsequent text. On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, apparently wrote: Mine is havingno problem at all : see the screenshot here : h**p://kib2.free.fr/temp/reST.png I do

Re: moving buffer changes to new file?

2007-02-22 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Lev Lvovsky apparently wrote: I often times rename a file that I'm working on after I realize (or am told ;) that renaming it is in order. Is there any way I can take the changes to that new file from the buffer along with the new name? :h :saveas hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: restructured text syntax file problem

2007-02-22 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, apparently wrote: kib2.free.fr/temp/reST2.png No that does not do it. Copy this entire *line*: ``x`` is the problem. Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: indexing in a latex file

2007-02-20 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, C.G.Senthilkumar. apparently wrote: Is there a script or some mechanism to do this effeciently? For example, when I search a term, vim should take the cursor to the term and prompt a confirmation(y/n) to index that term. Upon (y) it should include

display aberrations on Mac

2007-02-09 Thread Alan G Isaac
I'm using Vim 7 on a Macbook Pro (Intel) with OS X 10.4.8. With gvim I'm seeing some aberrant display: the occasional character will only half or 3/4 drawn, and :redr does not fix it. (However moving the cursor across it in normal mode does fix it.) Is this a known problem, and is there a fix?

Re[2]: omnicompletion vs. old Ctrl-n

2007-01-19 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Daniel Nogradi apparently wrote: I guess I'll give vim 7 a try. Just hope that my old .vimrc and ftplugins will keep working :) Vim 7 is great, but if you download 7.0 it has one problem that I have found very annoying: some maps are not properly unloaded a reloaded if

Re: vim | deleting end of lines inside a pattern

2007-01-11 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos apparently wrote: I would like to delete all end of lines (\n) inside a given pattern that runs through a text. The pattern is like this: PubmedArticle text1 \n text2 \n text3 \n text4 \n text5 \n text6 \n ... \n PubmedArticle

Re: Mac Questions

2007-01-08 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Brett Calcott apparently wrote: I have just got a Macbook (switching from windows) and have downloaded and compiled the latest version of Vim on it. It all works fine, but I have a few questions. Would you mind outlining the steps you took for someone who is making the

Re: Enclosing current line in HTML tags

2007-01-01 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Robert MannI apparently wrote: What's the quickest way to enclose the current line the cursor is on in, say, li/li tags? Here's one approach: http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/html_xhb.vim hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: multi-mark

2006-12-21 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yegappan Lakshmanan apparently wrote: You can use the Vim7 location list feature to implement the anonymous marks support. I do not think that is right, but perhaps I do not understand location lists correctly. My understanding is that a location list will reference

Re[2]: soft line breaks + limited width display?

2006-12-07 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Bill McCarthy apparently wrote: I see people have used this but what does gg+G do? :h gg :h + :h G hth, Alan Isaac

Re[4]: soft line breaks + limited width display?

2006-12-07 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Matthew Gilbert apparently wrote: + is selecting the CLIPBOARD register right? But I don't see where the register is used. Sorry for being dense, but it looks useful :-). Thanks _matt That's because it's missing a yank: gg+yG hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Bug? (Re: local map and vmap not cleared when buffer deleted)

2006-12-06 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Bill McCarthy apparently wrote: I repeated this starting with a file name file: gvim -u NONE -i NONE -N file Here I see what appears to be a cosmetic bug. I am seeing: i @ buffer v @ I am using Vim 7.0. Starting with gvim -u NONE

Re: soft line breaks + limited width display?

2006-12-06 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Karsten Gerloff apparently wrote: I'm currently writing a lot of text in vim that will later need to transfer to a word processor (OpenOffice 2.0 in this case). OT: If you use reStructuredText you can use rst2html and have OpenOffice open the HTML document.

Re[2]: sourcing

2006-12-05 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Bill McCarthy apparently wrote: Instead of using an autocmd, you could place those maps in a file called tex.vim in your local ftplugin directory. Place this single line in such a file: map buffer c-a :echo 'It worked!'CR OK, I did this. But there is still a

Re: Hiding lines

2006-09-17 Thread Alan G Isaac
It rather sounds like you want THE's 'all' command: http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/doc/comm/ALL.html I think the view expressed on this list in the past is something like: see :h :global I am not claiming this is a complete response. Indeed, I believe your request interacts with

Re[2]: vim is too smart for its own good

2006-08-31 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Tim Chase apparently wrote: There's always ed... -more ubiquitous in its presence -consistent in its behavior -powerful -tools like diff interoperate with it -it can be used on a slow TTY -can be used on with a one-line display -smaller executable size

Re: ANN: vcscommand beta 4 (supercedes cvscommand)

2006-08-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Bob Hiestand apparently wrote: http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=90 I see that many people are liking this plugin. Could you please add a few details about how it works and why it is better than just using the SVN executables. Thank you, Alan Isaac

Re: Paragraph formatting options

2006-08-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
Try this: set fo+=w and then leave no white space after your outdented header. Then you can gwap to your hearts content. Not quite what you asked for ... hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Paragraph formatting options

2006-08-18 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, apparently wrote: but what is this gwap (or :gwap ..) command? Seems it is not recognized by Vim 6.3 :h gw Enjoy. Alan Isaac

Re[2]: windows unicode (iso10646-1) font for vim

2006-08-17 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, (BST) Georg Dahn apparently wrote: I personally need Latin only and use Consolas: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3displaylang=en which (IMHO) is a great font. This package is only intended for licensed

Re: use '/' to find both upper and lower case instances

2006-08-17 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Luke Vanderfluit apparently wrote: I have a need to use '/' to find something in a file, but I wish it to ignore case. :h \c hth, Alan Isaac

Re: pasting the name of the file in the text of the file

2006-08-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, olahjulcsi apparently wrote: I have been trying to find a way to paste the name of the file inside the text of the file. In insert mode: ctrl-r% hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: language display problem

2006-08-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, A.J.Mechelynck apparently wrote: MingLiU for East-Asian ideograms. http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/fonts.htm Unfortunately, the only way of legally obtaining it now appears to be by enabling Traditional Chinese support in Windows. Microsoft used to offer it

Re[2]: filename completion and filereadable

2006-08-09 Thread Alan G Isaac
Am 09.08.2006 14:08:04 schrieb Yakov Lerner: Looks like an input() bug to me. On 8/9/06, Alexander 'boesi' Bösecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me it looks even more strange. I've tested a bit more. :echo filereadable(G:\Projekte\CS Simple\run.pyw) On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Yakov Lerner

Re: Another regular expression substitute question

2006-07-26 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Xiaoshen Li apparently wrote: Thank you very much for all your responses. I am sorry. My file is a little different now. It is like following: 1 data_34.dat pre= -7872.11914060 post= -7812.80517600 diff= 59.31396460 2 data_5.dat pre= -7986.76147466 post=

Re[2]: Another regular expression substitute question

2006-07-26 Thread Alan G Isaac
:[EMAIL PROTECTED](\S\+\)[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, (MDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently wrote: I know you lose some generality with this solution... :%s/.*\(data_\d*\.dat\).*/\1 but it looks a little easier on the eyes. Any cons to doing it this way? One extra character?

Re: Scroll up/down feature is missing in Microsoft Windows

2006-06-02 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 02 Jun 2006, Xiaoshen Li apparently wrote: I use vim a lot in Linux. Recently I start to use vim in Microsoft Windows. One feature lost in Microsoft Windows platform is: pressing Ctrl, Alt and E together will move the text down (pressing Ctrl, Alt and Y together will move the text

Re[2]: Support for the idutils in vim?

2006-06-02 Thread Alan G Isaac
Slightly OT: On 6/1/06, Timothy Knox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any support for the GNU idutils http://www.gnu.org/software/idutils/ in vim? For those not familiar with the idutils, they are somewhat like ctags, only faster? Yegappan Lakshmanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can

Re: VIM script replacement question

2006-05-25 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos apparently wrote: In detail: 1.I want in front of the number in the first column to add # , then change line after the value 2. change line after 3rd column 3. change line after 5th column 4. repeat all three steps

Re[2]: VIM script replacement question

2006-05-25 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos apparently wrote: The replacement didn't occur to the whole file. You must have forgotten the '%'. hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: VIM script replacement question

2006-05-25 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos apparently wrote: No, I used %. Got them same problem with Tim's code Something is not right ... Try using :g/./s/ instead of :%s/ and see what happens. hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: VIM script replacement question

2006-05-25 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos apparently wrote: 00 must become 0 0 The original replacement I sent had these spaces in it: :g/./s/^\(\d\+\)\s\+\([01]\)\s\+\([01]\)\s\+\([01]\)\s\+\([01]\)\s*/#\1\r\2 \3\r\4 \5 Look after \2 and after \4 hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Tables.

2006-05-21 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Sun, 21 May 2006, Gary apparently wrote: Some very basic markup language that provides headers, paragraphs, lists, and tables and that could be easily translated to html, pdf, postscript, and simple text would be well-adapted to my needs. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

Re: :bd should NOT close the Window

2006-05-12 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Salman Khilji apparently wrote: When you have a window split, issuing a :bd command closes the buffer AND one panes of the split window as well. Just leave it open. To edit newfile.txt in it :e newfile.txt To then immediately get rid of oldfile.txt :bd# hth, Alan

Re[2]: VIM: map seq.s must be typed slowly

2006-04-23 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Thomas Mellman apparently wrote: Thank you. In fact, that's what my sequences map to. It's just that I find that I can type [v and ]v faster then I can type the # and * (which are shifted on a US keyboard). Too fast, I'm afraid. But that's new (within the last