Re: Why bottom-posting is prefered on Vim Mainling List?

2007-05-29 Thread Dave Land
-posting, Dave Land replies: On another list, one of the members insisted on sending HTML posts where the font was HHH HHH UUU UUU EE H H U U G E H U U G GGG EEE H H U U G G E HHH HHH UUUGGG EE His argument was that he had

Re: Why bottom-posting is prefered on Vim Mainling List?

2007-05-28 Thread Dave Land
On May 28, 2007, at 8:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slightly Off-topic, but I'm still wondering why bottom-posting is prefered on Vim Mainling List. As far as I know, most e-mail clients defaults to top-posting (i.e. replied message shows before the original message), and I personally

Re: Why bottom-posting is prefered on Vim Mainling List?

2007-05-28 Thread Dave Land
Folks, In the spirit contrarianism, I'm going to top-post now. Actually, both parts of Mark's post below were of a _third_ variety: interlinear comments. On many communities, this is the preferred method, especially if the posts tend to be longish and contain many separate points that need to

Re: book

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Land
On May 14, 2007, at 8:43 PM, fREW wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:07:03 -0700 linda.s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a beginner in VIM. Wonder whether there is any good book for VIM? Also, what is the difference between vim and latex? Thanks, Linda I'm a beginner too, and I enjoy this

Re: A challenge for those who feel like it

2007-04-27 Thread Dave Land
Francis, I took your challenge a long time ago, because I do the same thing: when I'm editing JSP source code, I want to follow long chains of included files, so I think I know just what you want... map silent C-G C-Wgf:tabm 999CR It opens the file under the cursor in a new tab, then moves the

Re: CTRL+gf new tab position

2007-04-10 Thread Dave Land
Ralf, I use shift-control-g to open the file under the cursor in a new tab, placing the new tab at the end of the tablist thusly: map silent C-S-G C-Wgf:tabm 999CR Oddly enough, this mapping also takes over plain old control-g, which is fine for me. When I'm editing JSP files that have lots

Re: Customizing vim: How to change the char before commands

2007-03-25 Thread Dave Land
On Mar 25, 2007, at 1:34 AM, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Having to start ex-commands with a colon doesn't bother me. I don't think it is due to the colon being unshifted on my AZERTY keyboard: IIRC, on en_US QWERTY keyboards, the colon is conventiently located right of the L, near enough to the

Re: question about search

2007-03-22 Thread Dave Land
On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:44 PM, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Dave Land wrote: Shawn Vim friends, On Mar 21, 2007, at 6:21 PM, shawn bright wrote: cool, thanks, i knew there had to be something. And it keeps getting better. Due to Vim's extensive programmability and keystroke mapping

Re: question about search

2007-03-21 Thread Dave Land
Shawn Vim friends, On Mar 21, 2007, at 6:21 PM, shawn bright wrote: cool, thanks, i knew there had to be something. And it keeps getting better. Due to Vim's extensive programmability (and keystroke mapping and the endless creativity of its developer and user communities), you can extend

Re: display aberrations on Mac

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Land
On Feb 10, 2007, at 9:43 AM, Hal wrote: Alan G Isaac wrote: 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

Re: Security Center Advisory !

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Land
Folks, Is there any way that the list managers can block these PayPal scam emails? Thank you, Dave

Re: Mac Questions

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Land
Hello, On Jan 8, 2007, at 2:31 PM, Brett Calcott wrote: This does seem to be the case. No amount of fiddling with .profile .bashrc .bash_profile /etc/bashrc or whatever makes any difference to the environment that ends up in the GUI version that is started from the dock. I don't know if the

Re: Mac Questions

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Land
On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:03 PM, Dave Land wrote: Happily, Apple provided a utility that handles it for you: defaults read ${HOME}/.MacOSX/environment Actually, making this work in bash (or other shell) requires a little more than just reading the file... Here's the relevant chunk from my

Re: vim.org refreshed mockup

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Land
. vim tangofied icon by toZth If folks think that vim needs a new icon, this one's as good as any. I don't happen to use any other Tango desktop-themed icons, so it is of no real consequence to me, but it is a nice-looking icon, and it would certainly be at home on my OS X dock. Dave Land