RE: Is there a xml formatter?

[David Fishburn]

 
 Op woensdag 30 mei 2007, schreef wangxu:
  I want to have this function:
  formatting my xml file automatically.
  or,indent xml element and attributes.
 
  is there any plugin like this?
  thanks!
 
 Well, if you're on a unix machine with xmllint installed, you 
 could do the following:
 
 setlocal equalprg=xmllint\ --format\ -
 
 and then use gg=G to reformat the entire document.

I don't have much luck with that technique.
If xmllint believes the xml isn't quite valid then it screws it up with
error messages and such.

I wrote this little function to do it for me.  Works well enough.
Basically, I either run the command 
:FormatSGML

Or, visually select some rows and run the command.

function! Format_SGML() range
 Add a new line to the bottom of the mark to be removed later
call cursor(a:lastline,1)
put =''
silent! exec ma z
 Add a new line above the mark to be removed later
call cursor(a:firstline,1)
put! = ''
silent! exec ma y

 Put each tag on a newline
exec line('y).','.line('z).'s/\s*/\r/ge'
 Reformat using Vim's indenter
call cursor(line('y),1)
exec 'normal! '.(line('z)-line('y)+1).'=='

 Delete the additional lines added
silent! exe norm! 'ydd'zdd
endfunction
command! -range=% -nargs=0 FormatSGML line1,line2call Format_SGML()


At least you have some additional options now.


HTH,
Dave

Re: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows

[David . Fishburn]

What happens if you start vim using:
Gvim -u NONE -U NONE

And try again?
If it doesn't happen sounds like possibly a plugin issue (or compability mode). 
But from a code perspective I don't think a plugin could affect Vim in this way.

Dave



- Original Message -
From: Waters, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05/14/2007 02:51 PM EST
To: David Fishburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vim@vim.org
Subject: RE: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows



It happens every time for me.  I just have to open a file and then do a
:vsplit.

It really shows up and is annoying with using the taglist plugin.

Do you know of a command for the Edit-Global Settings-Toggle Right
Scroll Bar option?


-Original Message-
From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:42 PM
To: Waters, Bill
Subject: RE: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows



 -Original Message-
 From: Waters, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:23 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows

 (I am using gVim 7.1 in Windows XP.)

 If I do a :vsplit, I end up with a scroll bar on the right
 for the right window and a scroll bar on the left for the
 left window.  When I use my mouse wheel to scroll, the left
 window scrolls, regardless of which window is selected.

 If I do a Edit-Global Settings-Toggle Right Scroll Bar, the
 right scroll bar disappears.  But I am able to mouse-wheel
 scrolling based on which window is selected.

 Is there a way to keep both scroll bars, and be able to
 mouse-wheel scroll based on which window is selected?

Unfortunately, this has been reported since the betas of 7.0.

Many of us on Windows are running into this, but I cannot reliably come
up
with a series of steps to reproduce the issue to hand over to Bram.

Can you reliably reproduce this so that it will happen on other peoples
machines?

Dave

Re: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows

[David . Fishburn]

Yes, with gvim 7.1 on WinXP SP2 I get the same behaviour.

gvim -u NONE -U NONE some_file
:vsp
C-W C-W
Use the wheel to scroll. Only the left window will scroll.


Whoa, I was just trying this again when I discovered if you hold down the CTRL 
key you get different behaviour.

CTRL-wheel scroll will do the right side window.

Crap, now I restarted Vim and it will scroll both windows again as it should.


So after it not doing it 5 restarts in a row, once I held down the CTRL button 
and scrolled (which worked). Now everytime I restart Vim it works flawlessly.

Walter, what happens when you try the same thing?


Dave





- Original Message -
From: Waters, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05/14/2007 05:56 PM EST
To: David Fishburn; vim vim@vim.org
Subject: RE: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows



 What happens if you start vim using:
 Gvim -u NONE -U NONE

Same results.  I start gvim, do a :vsplit, and the mouse wheel will only
scroll the left window, even when the right window is selected.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 5:45 PM
To: Waters, Bill; vim
Subject: Re: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows

What happens if you start vim using:
Gvim -u NONE -U NONE

And try again?
If it doesn't happen sounds like possibly a plugin issue (or compability
mode). But from a code perspective I don't think a plugin could affect
Vim in this way.

Dave



- Original Message -
From: Waters, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 05/14/2007 02:51 PM EST
To: David Fishburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]; vim@vim.org
Subject: RE: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows



It happens every time for me.  I just have to open a file and then do a
:vsplit.

It really shows up and is annoying with using the taglist plugin.

Do you know of a command for the Edit-Global Settings-Toggle Right
Scroll Bar option?


-Original Message-
From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:42 PM
To: Waters, Bill
Subject: RE: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows



 -Original Message-
 From: Waters, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 3:23 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: mouse-wheel scrolling with vertically split windows

 (I am using gVim 7.1 in Windows XP.)

 If I do a :vsplit, I end up with a scroll bar on the right
 for the right window and a scroll bar on the left for the
 left window.  When I use my mouse wheel to scroll, the left
 window scrolls, regardless of which window is selected.

 If I do a Edit-Global Settings-Toggle Right Scroll Bar, the
 right scroll bar disappears.  But I am able to mouse-wheel
 scrolling based on which window is selected.

 Is there a way to keep both scroll bars, and be able to
 mouse-wheel scroll based on which window is selected?

Unfortunately, this has been reported since the betas of 7.0.

Many of us on Windows are running into this, but I cannot reliably come
up
with a series of steps to reproduce the issue to hand over to Bram.

Can you reliably reproduce this so that it will happen on other peoples
machines?

Dave

RE: Vim OLE and C# - Solution

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:12 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Vim OLE and C#
 
 
 I have the following VB code:
 
 Dim Vim As Object
 Set Vim = CreateObject(Vim.Application)
 Vim.SendKeys ESC:e 
 
 I want to do the samething in C# (of which my skills are 
 quite weak).  I have the following:
   object Vim;
   Vim =
 Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID(Vim.Application));
   Vim.SendKeys(ESC:e );
 
 Most of that was grabbed from Google.
 
 Compiler error:
 Error 3   'object' does not contain a definition for 
 'SendKeys'...
 
 I am assuming I must strongly type the object, so I tried:
   Vim.Application Vim;
 
 Error 3   The type or namespace name 'Vim' could not be 
 found (are you
 missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)  ...
 
 
 Any suggestions?
 
 Once I get this working I will get it added under this 
 section in the Vim
 help:
 :h ole-activation

Bram, I managed to get this working.

If you could update ole-activation section of the help, it might help
others.


Add a reference to VIM in your project. You need to select VIM Ole
Interface from the COM tab.

Add using Vim;  to the top of the file.
Then the following code works.
   Vim.Vim vimobj = new Vim.Vim();
vimobj.SendKeys(:enew\n);


Dave

RE: delete buffer questions

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: alebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:51 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: delete buffer questions
 
 
 I need som things explained about the automatic delete buffers 1-9.
 
 When I delete rows using dd the deleted text is put in the 
 default buffer, using dd again will put it in 1 and so on. 
 
 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?

You might want to try my plugin:

YankRing.vim : Maintains a history of previous yanks and deletes 
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234

Vim already maintains a list of numbered registers containing the last 9
deletes.  These previous deletes can be referenced using [register]p, so
1p will paste the last delete, 2p the 2nd last delete.  For more
information see |quote_number|.

Vim does not provide any mechanism to reference previous yanked text.  In
Emacs this feature is called the kill ring.

The yankring plugin allows the user to configure the number of yanked and
deleted text.  A split window can be used to choose which element(s) from
the
yankring you wish to paste.  Alternately after text has been pasted (using
p),
it can be replaced with a previous value from the yankring with a single key
stroke.

A tutorial is included to take you through the various features of the
plugin.  After you have installed the plugin just run:
 :h yankring.txt
 :h yankring-tutorial 

...

Pressing F11 (default key) will bring up the list of all recent yanks and
deletes.  From there you can choose which one you need to paste.

HTH,
Dave

Setting font in console vim

[David . Fishburn]

Vim 7
WinXP

I can set the font in gvim using:
Set guifont=

But how do I do the same with console vim?

Help, helpgrep and searching this list hasn't found me an aswer.

TIA,
Dave

Vim OLE and C#

[David Fishburn]

I have the following VB code:

Dim Vim As Object
Set Vim = CreateObject(Vim.Application)
Vim.SendKeys ESC:e 

I want to do the samething in C# (of which my skills are quite weak).  I
have the following:
object Vim;
Vim =
Activator.CreateInstance(Type.GetTypeFromProgID(Vim.Application));
Vim.SendKeys(ESC:e );

Most of that was grabbed from Google.

Compiler error:
Error   3   'object' does not contain a definition for 'SendKeys'   ...

I am assuming I must strongly type the object, so I tried:
Vim.Application Vim;

Error   3   The type or namespace name 'Vim' could not be found (are you
missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)...


Any suggestions?

Once I get this working I will get it added under this section in the Vim
help:
:h ole-activation

Thanks,
Dave

RE: bracket completion

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Karl Guertin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 6:42 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: bracket completion
 
 On 3/31/07, Greg Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Anyone know of a way to achieve bracket completion?
 
 I've been sitting on a plugin that does this for a month or 
 so. The main difference between my plugin and the rest of the 
 options here is that I do the completion without breaking 
 history or repeat.
 
 Freshly uploaded to vim.org:
 
 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1849
 
 This plugin was pared down from a larger script that included 
 a set of less reusable mappings, so let me know if there's a problem.

Thanks for the script Karl.

Not a problem, but a suggestion.

Could you make an option to ignore the autoclose if there is a following
character.  If I am typing a line:

If (  -- here I want the autoclose.

If I have this line:

If (something_is_already_here)
  ^
And I place my cursor on the i in something I do not want to add the
closing brace since generally if I am inserting that the closing brace will
be placed at the end of the line (or something).

Just a preference, which is why I was hoping it could be an option.
So only complete when the ([[ is the last item on the line (as I am typing).

Thanks,
Dave

RE: Reannouncing vimplugin: A vim plugin for Eclipse

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Sebastian Menge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 1:12 PM
 To: David Fishburn
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: RE: Reannouncing vimplugin: A vim plugin for Eclipse
 
 Am Freitag, den 30.03.2007, 12:24 -0400 schrieb David Fishburn:
  The README indicates:
  The only external dependency is a functional gvim compiled 
 with netbeans 
  support.
  
  But your email says:
   Microsoft users have to use the cygwin version of vim.
  
  Can you confirm which is required.  Why would the cygwin version of 
  Vim be required it is just talks to it over a protocol?
  
  I have cygwin installed, but I have never actually compiled 
 an actual 
  cygwin version of Vim, I just use the standard win32 
 version which I 
  compile myself.
 
 for the netbeans-prototype you need gvim. It fires up an 
 external gvim and talks with it via a socket. I havent tested 
 that under windows.

I followed these directions:
http://vimplugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vimplugin/branches/vimclient/do
c/README

Which implemented the gvim via the NetBeans interface.


 
 for the UI-integration (simple textbased vim inside eclipse) 
 you need cygwin.

Is there separate instructions for how to setup the integrated one?


Thanks,
Dave

RE: Reannouncing vimplugin: A vim plugin for Eclipse

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Sebastian Menge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 11:49 AM
 To: vim@vim.org; vim-dev@vim.org
 Subject: Reannouncing vimplugin: A vim plugin for Eclipse
 
 Hi all 
 
 After a long time of no activity we restarted the work on a 
 small plugin to embed vim into the Eclipse IDE.
 
 See http://vimplugin.sf.net and http://sf.net/vimplugin for details.
 
 If you are familiar with eclipse, there is an update site 
 http://vimplugin.sf.net/update with the latest build.
 
 Microsoft users have to use the cygwin version of vim.
 
 We also have a prototype of an eclipse-plugin that talks to a 
 gvim that acts as netbeans server (:help netbeans).
 
 More detailed info on that can be found here: 
 http://vimplugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vimplugin/branche
 s/vimclient/doc/README
 
 Both projects are standard eclipse projects that can be 
 checked out anonymously via subversion (you need subclipse then):
 
 http://vimplugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vimplugin/trunk/vimplugin
 http://vimplugin.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vimplugin/branche
 s/vimclient
 
 This time we'll keep an better eye on community building: So 
 please try it out and give some feedback. On 
 http://sf.net/projects/vimplugin you can find forums and of 
 course mailinglists.

Sebastian, fantastic I have been wanting this for sometime.

I was writing up an email indicating I need some more direction, but I see
that was provided in the README via SVN.

I will try this out (I don't use Eclipse that often, but I do use it for
Perl, PHP and Java especially when I need an integrated debugger.

The README indicates:
The only external dependency is a functional gvim compiled with netbeans 
support.

But your email says:
 Microsoft users have to use the cygwin version of vim.

Can you confirm which is required.  Why would the cygwin version of Vim be
required it is just talks to it over a protocol?

I have cygwin installed, but I have never actually compiled an actual cygwin
version of Vim, I just use the standard win32 version which I compile
myself.

Thanks,
Dave

Building gvim creates invalid executable

[David Fishburn]

This has been happening for a little while (at least a month).

I have been routinely building Vim on Win XP SP2 for a couple of years now.

Now when I build it and try to run it I get:
C:\OpenSrc\vim7\srcgvim.exe
The system cannot execute the specified program.


Unforutunately, the error message does not give me much to go on.
Running gvimd yields:
C:\OpenSrc\vim7\srcgvimd.exe
The system cannot execute the specified program.


So that doesn't help either.

I can build and successfully run the console versions:
VIM - Vi IMproved
 version 7.0.224

:ver
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Mar 30 2007 19:57:56)
MS-Windows 32 bit console version
Included patches: 1-224
Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...


I grabbed the last part of the build of gvim.exe, it might shed some light:


if_cscope.c
netbeans.c
Generating Code...
cl -c /W3 /nologo  -D_MT -MT -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32
-DFEAT
_CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG   -DFEAT_XPM_W32   -DWINVER=0x0400
-D_WIN32_WINNT=0
x0400  /Fo.\ObjGOLY/ /Ox -DNDEBUG  -DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_GUI_W32 -DDYNAMIC_ICONV
-DD
YNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON
-DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\python24.d
ll\ -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\perl58.dll\ -DFEAT_BIG
/Zi
 /Fd.\ObjGOLY/ if_ole.cpp
if_ole.cpp
cl -c /W3 /nologo  -D_MT -MT -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32
-DFEAT
_CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG   -DFEAT_XPM_W32   -DWINVER=0x0400
-D_WIN32_WINNT=0
x0400  /Fo.\ObjGOLY/ /Ox -DNDEBUG  -DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_GUI_W32 -DDYNAMIC_ICONV
-DD
YNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON
-DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\python24.d
ll\ -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\perl58.dll\ -DFEAT_BIG
/Zi
 /Fd.\ObjGOLY/ version.c
version.c
link /RELEASE /nologo /subsystem:windows /incremental:no
/nodefaultlib:l
ibc -out:gvim.exe .\ObjGOLY\buffer.obj  .\ObjGOLY\charset.obj
.\ObjGOLY\diff.ob
j  .\ObjGOLY\digraph.obj  .\ObjGOLY\edit.obj  .\ObjGOLY\eval.obj
.\ObjGOLY\ex_c
mds.obj  .\ObjGOLY\ex_cmds2.obj  .\ObjGOLY\ex_docmd.obj
.\ObjGOLY\ex_eval.obj
.\ObjGOLY\ex_getln.obj  .\ObjGOLY\fileio.obj  .\ObjGOLY\fold.obj
.\ObjGOLY\getc
har.obj  .\ObjGOLY\hardcopy.obj  .\ObjGOLY\hashtab.obj  .\ObjGOLY\main.obj
.\Ob
jGOLY\mark.obj  .\ObjGOLY\mbyte.obj  .\ObjGOLY\memfile.obj
.\ObjGOLY\memline.ob
j  .\ObjGOLY\menu.obj  .\ObjGOLY\message.obj  .\ObjGOLY\misc1.obj
.\ObjGOLY\mis
c2.obj  .\ObjGOLY\move.obj  .\ObjGOLY\normal.obj  .\ObjGOLY\ops.obj
.\ObjGOLY\o
ption.obj  .\ObjGOLY\os_mswin.obj  .\ObjGOLY\os_win32.obj
.\ObjGOLY\pathdef.obj
  .\ObjGOLY\popupmnu.obj  .\ObjGOLY\quickfix.obj  .\ObjGOLY\regexp.obj
.\ObjGOL
Y\screen.obj  .\ObjGOLY\search.obj  .\ObjGOLY\spell.obj
.\ObjGOLY\syntax.obj  .
\ObjGOLY\tag.obj  .\ObjGOLY\term.obj  .\ObjGOLY\ui.obj  .\ObjGOLY\undo.obj
.\Ob
jGOLY\window.obj  .\ObjGOLY\vim.res .\ObjGOLY\gui.obj
.\ObjGOLY\gui_beval.obj
.\ObjGOLY\gui_w32.obj  .\ObjGOLY\os_w32exe.obj .\ObjGOLY\if_ole.obj
.\ObjGOLY\
if_perl.obj .\ObjGOLY\if_perlsfio.obj .\ObjGOLY\if_python.obj
.\ObjGOLY/if_c
scope.obj .\ObjGOLY/netbeans.obj  .\ObjGOLY/xpm_w32.obj
.\ObjGOLY\version.obj ad
vapi32.lib shell32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib ole32.lib uuid.lib
oldnames.lib ke
rnel32.lib gdi32.lib version.lib   winspool.lib comctl32.lib advapi32.lib
shell3
2.lib  /machine:i386 /nodefaultlib libcmt.lib oleaut32.lib  user32.lib
/node
faultlib:python24.libWSock32.lib
C:\download\OpenSrc\vim\XPM_support_for_Net
beans\xpm-4.2.0\lib\libXpm.lib /PDB:gvim.pdb -debug
cl /nologo -DNDEBUG vimrun.c
vimrun.c
cl /nologo -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 dosinst.c kernel32.lib shell32.lib
ole32.li
b advapi32.lib uuid.lib
dosinst.c
if exist install.exe del install.exe
ren dosinst.exe install.exe
cl /nologo -DNDEBUG -DWIN32 uninstal.c shell32.lib advapi32.lib
uninstal.c
cd xxd
nmake /NOLOGO -f Make_mvc.mak
cl /nologo -DWIN32 xxd.c
xxd.c
cd ..
cd GvimExt
nmake /NOLOGO -f Makefile
cl -c -DCRTAPI1=_cdecl -DCRTAPI2=_cdecl -nologo -D_X86_=1  -DWIN32
-D_WI
N32 -W3 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0400 -DWINVER=0x0400 -DFEAT_GETTEXT  -D_MT -D_DLL -MD
gvim
ext.cpp
gvimext.cpp
Rc /r -DWIN32 -D_WIN32 -DWINVER=0x0400   gvimext.rc
link  /INCREMENTAL:NO /NOLOGO -dll -def:gvimext.def -base:0x1C00
-ou
t:gvimext.dll gvimext.obj gvimext.res ole32.lib uuid.lib oleaut32.lib
kernel32.l
ib  ws2_32.lib mswsock.lib advapi32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib
winspo
ol.lib shell32.lib comctl32.lib
gvimext.def(4) : warning LNK4017: DESCRIPTION statement not supported for
the ta
rget platform; ignored
   Creating library gvimext.lib and object gvimext.exp
cd ..




Any suggestions?

TIA,
Dave

RE: gVim and Cygwin

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:42 PM
 To: Charles E Campbell Jr
 Cc: Waters, Bill; vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: gVim and Cygwin
 
 Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
  Waters, Bill wrote:
  
  Does anyone have experience with running gVim and using Cygwin 
  commands (ex. indent)?  I would prefer not to run vim in a Cygwin 
  terminal, unless someone has all of the configurations 
 needed (syntax 
  highlighting, etc) to have that act like gVim.
   
 
  I generally compile both gvim and vim under cygwin, and haven't run 
  into any problems.  I haven't used indent, though.  The problems I 
  generally have had have been with Windows' paths and trying to get 
  netrw to understand them properly, but that's not because 
 of gvim and cygwin.
  
  If you already have cygwin, just get vim 7.0 source, and go to its 
  source directory.
  
  gmake -f Make_cyg.mak
  
  will make gvim.exe by default.  Edit Make_cyg.mak, and 
 change GUI=yes 
  to GUI=no, and type the same command above.  That way you'll get 
  vim.exe.  Its really quite straightforward!
  
  Regards,
  Chip Campbell
  
 
 Make_cyg.mak uses Cygwin tools to (cross-) compile a 
 native-Windows Vim or gvim which doesn't need Cygwin to run 
 and doesn't understand the POSIX paths of cygwin. It won't 
 interface easily with Cygwin bash (or any other Cygwin 
 program for that matter).
 
 To compile a Unix-like Vim for Cygwin you must use the 
 top-level Makefile or the src/Makefile which will invoke a 
 configure step. If configure finds the necessary headers and 
 libraries it may compile a GUI version of Vim, which will 
 need Cygwin to run, and X11 to display a GUI.

Hmm, based on your response and Gary's (libncurses-devel) and this post:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00886.html

I ran the following:
cd /c/OpenSrc/vim7/src
./configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--libexecdir='$(sbindir)' \
--localstatedir=/var \
--datadir='$(prefix)/share' \
--enable-multibyte \
--without-x \
--enable-gui=no

This results in:
./configure: line 3: $'\r': command not found
auto/configure: line 11: $'\r': command not found
auto/configure: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
auto/configure: line 19: `elif test -n ${BASH_VERSION+set}  (set -o
posix) 'dev/null 21; then
./configure: line 6: $'\r': command not found
./configure: line 11: syntax error: unexpected end of file


I have never tried this before, I am wondering if it is related to dos line
endings?

I pulled the source from a win32 SVN client.  It is the same directory I
compile for win32 from.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Dave

Re: Matchit with PL/SQL

[David . Fishburn]

(Had to top post)
I am the author of ftplugin/sql.vim which defines b:match_words.

It was set this way so that the following will not match.

begin
end if

I didn't realize plsql allowed your case.
I think this could be addressed by saying the end cannot be followed by the 
known end statements like:
End if
End case


Could you put together a conslusive list of plsql keywords that begin with end 
and I can update the script.

I will probably make it an option that can be set (with on as the default) in 
case this breaks other dbs syntax.

Dave



- Original Message -
From:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03/21/2007 01:35 PM
To: vim@vim.org
Subject: Matchit with PL/SQL



Hello.

I have just discovered the matchit plugin and have been using it to navigate
some Oracle PL/SQL scripts. My issue is as follows.

If I have a script containing:

create or replace procedure foo
as
begin
    null ;
end ;

then by placing the cursor on the word begin and hitting % the cursor jumps
to the word end. Great, that’s what I want. But if the script is

create or replace procedure foo
as
begin
    null ;
end foo ;

i.e. it names the procedure after the closing end, then the above navigation
doesn’t work. I’m loathe to change b:match_words as it looks a bit hairy,
but if someone has already addressed this, or can suggest a workaround, I’d
be grateful.

Thanks.

RE: replace upper-case with lower-case

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Bin Chen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:44 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: replace upper-case with lower-case
 
 I want to replace below scheme within one command, that is 
 left the capitalization the same but replace the word.
 
 SS-SS
 ss-ss


For all the people that responded on this thread, you may want to look at
this script which I think is great:

 KeepCase - Match mixed case while substituting /*{{{*/
 Author: Michael Geddes 
 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=6
 Usage: Using KeepCase or KeepCaseSameLen defined here, do a substitution
like this:
 
 %s/\u\old_word\/\=KeepCaseSameLen(submatch(0), 'new_word')/g
 
 * KeepCase( original_word , new_word )  
   returns the new word maintaining case
   simply uses heuristics to work out some different common situations
 given   NewWord
 Word   -- Newword
 WORD-- NEWWORD
 word-- newword
 WoRd-- NewWord
 woRd-- newWord


HTH,
Dave

RE: How to paste without replace the content in buffer

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Peng Yu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 10:38 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: How to paste without replace the content in buffer
 
 Hi,
 
 Suppose I want to replace string1 with string2 in a file from vim.
 
 1. Highlight string1 (in visual mode) and then type y.
 2. Highlight string2 (in visual mode) and then type p.
 
 However, the problem with the above procedure is that 
 string2, instead of string1, is in buffer. That is if I 
 highlight string3
 and then type p, string3 will be replaced with string2 
 instead of string1.
 
 I'm wondering if there is any way to avoid change the content 
 in the buffer?

You might want to consider using one of my plugins:

YankRing.vim : Maintains a history of previous yanks and deletes 
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234

Vim already maintains a list of numbered registers containing the last 9
deletes.  These previous deletes can be referenced using [register]p, so
1p will paste the last delete, 2p the 2nd last delete.  For more
information see |quote_number|.

Vim does not provide any mechanism to reference previous yanked text.  In
Emacs this feature is called the kill ring.

The yankring plugin allows the user to configure the number of yanked and
deleted text.  A split window can be used to choose which element(s) from
the
yankring you wish to paste.  Alternately after text has been pasted (using
p),
it can be replaced with a previous value from the yankring with a single key
stroke.

A tutorial is included to take you through the various features of the
plugin.  After you have installed the plugin just run:
 :h yankring.txt
 :h yankring-tutorial

The yankring can be interacted with in two ways:  a GUI or via maps. 
...



More details and features to go with it.  Have a look at the webpage for
more details.

HTH,
Dave
 

RE: Help needed to : Start on the line where I left when I opened the file last time

[David Fishburn]

 
 Read http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=80 , 
 Restore cursor to file position in previous editing session.


This tip does most of what I want thanks to the additional notes section.

I have realized, this only returns us to the row we were on.  Does anyone
know if it is also possible to return the the row and column position?

I am not sure if the column position is also stored within the viminfo file.

TIA,
Dave

RE: :wq vs ZZ

[David Fishburn]

 

 I wonder why some people use :wq instead of ZZ. Maybe they 
 just don't know about ZZ? Obviously that's not the case with Bram.


I added the following to my vimrc:

 Exit VIM, but prompt if any changes to save
nnoremap ZX :conf qaCR

I routinely have many files open at the sametime (hidden is set).
So when I close Vim, I press ZX.
Vim will prompt me for each and every buffer that was modified if I want to
save.

I like the prompt since I can decide quickly whether I want the file saved
or not and not have to issue any further commands to find the next modified
buffer.

HTH,
Dave

Using :g on folds

[David Fishburn]

Vim 7 WinXP SP2

I have a file with folding enabled.

What I would like to do is use something like this:
:v/dave/d

But I only want this to operate on folds.

I can do this manually by moving to the fold and pressing V (linewise visual
mode) followed by x to delete it.  That deletes all lines within the fold.

Not sure how to structure my command to do this operating over the entire
file and just on folded contents.

TIA,
Dave

RE: Substitute tabs for specific column locations

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Tim Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:08 PM
 To: David Fishburn
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: Substitute tabs for specific column locations
 
  So for each row, replace the tab with an appropriate number of 
  spaces to ensure that column 2 (no matter the length of 
 column 1) will 
  always start in column 20.  The same for column 3, but 
 starting at column 25.
  
  This is my poor man's formatting utility.  I can change the 
 input in 
  anyway I want (additional tabs or newline characters, 
 strings and so 
  on).  I just cannot line it up appropriately before my 
 plugin gets it 
  to display it on the screen.
  
  
  I was hoping I could do 1 substitute command that would do 
 something 
  like
  this:
  s/\(.\{-}\)\t\(.\{-}\)\t\(.\{-}\)\t\n/\1\%20c\2\%25c\3\r/g
 
 You have to tweak the spacing yourself, manually-ish.  Vim7 
 provides a repeat() function that, in earlier versions, you'd 
 have to recreate yourself.  Thus, you can do something like 
 this one-liner (broken into several lines to make the parts 
 more obvious)
 
 :%s/^\([^\t]*\)\t\([^\t]*\)\t\([^\t]*\)/\=
 matchstr(submatch(1).repeat(' ', 20), '^.\{20}').
 matchstr(submatch(2).repeat(' ', 25), '^.\{25}').
 submatch(3)

As usual Tim, bang on.

I realized this technique would not work for me since we are limited to the
use of only 9 back references.  I could do this in a loop, but I took a
different approach and let the Perl code that generated the block in the
first place take care of the formatting.  Turned out pretty easy and fast
using that approach.

Thanks for the help.
Dave

Substitute tabs for specific column locations

[David Fishburn]

Vim 7
WinXP SP2

I have a string in this format:
\nr1c1\tr1c2\tr1c3\t\nr2c1\tr2c2\tr2c3\t\nr3c1\tr3c2\tr3c3\t\n

r1 = row 1
c1 = column 1

I also have this information and requirement:
c1 should display at column 1 
c2 should display at column 20
c3 should display at column 25 

So for each row, replace the tab with an appropriate number of spaces to
ensure that column 2 (no matter the length of column 1) will always start in
column 20.  The same for column 3, but starting at column 25.

This is my poor man's formatting utility.  I can change the input in anyway
I want (additional tabs or newline characters, strings and so on).  I just
cannot line it up appropriately before my plugin gets it to display it on
the screen.


I was hoping I could do 1 substitute command that would do something like
this:
s/\(.\{-}\)\t\(.\{-}\)\t\(.\{-}\)\t\n/\1\%20c\2\%25c\3\r/g

In other words, replace the tabs with a specified column position.

But looking at the help the \%##c is only used for matching, not the
replacement part (a simple test confirmed).

c1, c2, c3 data can all be different lengths for each row, so I can just
added a preset number of spaced.

Does anyone have any suggested approaches?

TIA,
Dave

Returning perl hashes

[David . Fishburn]

Vim 7
WinXP SP2

Is it possible to return a Perl hash as a Vim List or Dictionary?

I am pretty new to Perl but need it's features for my extension. I need to
return rows and columns of data which is perfect for a Vim List or
Dictionary.

Thanks,
Dave

Perl plugin example

[David Fishburn]

I just searched through the help and didn't find anything to get me started.

I have written many Vim plugins using VimL, but in this case I need to write
one using Perl.

I also want to use Perl's DBI interface.  Does anyone have a perl/vim plugin
that I can use as a template to get me started?

TIA,
Dave

RE: Wrapping a selection in tags

[David Fishburn]

 

 I'd like to:
 
 1. Select some text
 2. Hit a key sequence such as ;t
 3. Be prompted for a tag (I'll input something like 'b' or 'h1')
 4. The text selection will be wrapped in -- say -- 
btext selection/b

I created a tip for this:
Tip #346: Wrap text in HTML/XML tags after prompting for the tag name
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=346


With some refinements at the bottom (plus a pile of SPAM!!).

HTH,
Dave

RE: Enclosing current line in HTML tags

[David Fishburn]

 What's the quickest way to enclose the current line the 
 cursor is on in, say, li/li tags?

Wow, 2 emails in the same day.

I created a tip for this:
Tip #346: Wrap text in HTML/XML tags after prompting for the tag name
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=346


With some refinements at the bottom (plus a pile of SPAM!!).

What I did was if the visually selected text spanned more than 1 line I
added:

something
Akj lkjaf kjdsflj fjalf js
Akj lkjaf kjdsflj fjalf js
/something


But if the visually selected text is  1 line then I do:
Akj lkjaf somethingkjdsflj/something fjalf js


HTH,
Dave

Pasteboard - Perl clipboard

[David Fishburn]

 
 
 Calvin Waterbury asked on Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:04 PM 
 for a pasteboard feature.
 
  This is a feature that automatically captures clipboard 
 content to a 
  text file that has been designated as the Pasteboard.
  Perhaps an example would clarify. If I had this feature 
 implimented in 
  VIM I would do the following:
 
   - Open a text ed window
   - Set it to be the Pasteboard
   - Switch to whatever window I want to capture (webpage text
 like a recipe, another text file, etc.) --- [1]Select the
 first text item --- [2]Copy to clipboard --- [3]Repeat [1]
 and [2] until done.
   - Go back to the Pasteboard window and I would see all of my
 captures neatly separated by whatever separator (a line of
 hyphens, equal signs, etc.) I had set in the Options.
   - Turn off the Pasteboard
   - Save the file.
 
 [Tony:  OP is asking about copying to a VIM buffer stuff fed 
 to the MS Windows clipboard _not_ from other VIM buffers but 
 from non-vim applications.]
 
 One way to implement this feature is by using VIM's support 
 for perl and the Win32::Clipboard module.


I was just looking at this possibility.
It would go well with the YankRing plugin:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1234


If someone wrote a very simple example of a Perl Vim plugin that monitors
the clipboard I could probably integrate that with the YankRing history.

Would this also work for the X11 clipboard?

Dave

RE: dbext omni-completion issue

[David Fishburn]

 I am trying to get the (magnificent, by the way) dbext plugin 
 to give me context-sensitive omni-completion for table/stored 
 procedure names.

Thank you for the praise.

This plugin contains functions/mappings/commands to enable Vim to access
several databases. Currently Mysql, PostgreSQL, Ingres, Oracle, Sybase
Adaptive Server Anywhere, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Microsoft SQL
Server, DB2, Interbase and SQLite are supported. 


For those of you interested in reading more about dbext:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=356



  It doesn't unfortunately get very far, and when it tries to 
 generate the dictionary files, I get an error:
 
  dbext: Incorrect syntax near '|'
  Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Server VANRENSBURGA, Line 2
 
 
 Followed by:
 
  dbext:Failed to create table dictionary
 
 I am using a local MS SQL Server 2005 database.  Other 
 functionality, such as executing sql statements work fine.  I 
 have two default configurations set up in my vimrc, for local 
 (development, on
 localhost) and a live database (also sql server).


Thank you for reporting the issue.

I have corrected the problem (and tested it) and have uploaded a new version
4.20 to the website.

Enjoy.
Dave

RE: Upcase every keyword while editing

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Thomas Michael Engelke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:42 AM
 To: vim-Mailingliste
 Subject: Upcase every keyword while editing
 
 Hello!
 
 I am looking for a way to mimic a functionality I've seen in 
 the editor ED4Win (http://www.softasitgets.com/). What I want 
 to do is to automagically upcase every written word that is 
 considered a keyword.
 I program in Progress 4GL and use the syntax file from the 
 gvim standard distribution.
 
 Theoretically, in my understanding of the problem, I would 
 need to write a function to check the word before the cursor 
 against the keywords list and map this one to something. 
 Usually, I leave the boundaries of a keyword by using either 
 space, tab, :, ,, enter or .. So I would have to map 
 this function to every of those keys in insert mode.

That is exactly why I wrote:
 SrchRplcHiGrp - Search and replace based on a syntax highlight group
 http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=848

Put your cursor on the word highlighted the colour that you want uppercased.
:SRChooseHiGrp
Or
:SRChooseHiGrp!

Visually select the range you want (or ggVG for whole file):
:','SRHiGrp 

The defaults selected will uppercase the words.

I wrote it mainly since I work with SQL and like the keywords uppercased.
But you can do anything with Vim's regex to the matches.

HTH,
Dave

RE: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: John Degen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:25 AM
 To: victor NOAGBODJI; vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
 
 - Original Message 
 From: victor NOAGBODJI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: vim@vim.org
 Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:06:56 PM
 Subject: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
 
 Hello all,
 
 I'm quite a newbie to Vim. I've been using it under ubuntu dapper.
 With moria color plugin, the font was nice, easy to read. I 
 think it's the default system font of ubuntu or something...
 
 Now under windows xp. It's bold, hard to read. It's the 
 default system font. Now how can I change that to a nice 
 clean, easy to read font?
 
 thanks
 
 I like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (use :set 
 guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h14:cANSI)
 
 you can download the font at 
 
 http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html
 

I add the following to my vimrc file:

 Change default FONT 
 Set personal font, here is a review of different ones:
   http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/6/11739/5249
 Bitstream Vera Fonts, downloaded from:
   http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
if has('win32') 
if filereadable(expand('$SystemRoot').'/fonts/Vera.ttf')
 For normal 11 point font
   set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h11:cANSI
 For bold 11 point font
set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h11:b:cANSI
elseif filereadable(expand('$SystemRoot').'/fonts/Raize.fon')
 Raize (12 pt bold)
set guifont=Raize:h12:b:cANSI
endif
endif

Since I have many machines I use my same installation of Vim on, not all of
them have the fonts I want.  This will only set the font if it exists on the
machine, plus a second favourite (Raize).


Does anyone know how to do the same thing in Ubuntu (or *nix in general)?
I am not sure where the fonts get stored on a *nix system.

Dave

RE: search visual block

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Lev Lvovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:04 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: search visual block
 
 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?
 
 otherwise, is there a way to copy that string so that I can 
 later put it into the :/ command?

I know you have had lots of different reponses on this thread.
This is what I keep in my vimrc, which doesn't use a function.

Simply highlight the text and hit * or #, just like you would for a given
work in normal mode.

 Courtesy of Michael Naumann, Jürgen Krämer
 Visually select text, then search for it
if version = 602
 Here are two enhanced versions of these mappings which use VIM 6.2's
 getregtype() function to determine whether the unnamed register
contains 
 a characterwise, linewise or blockwise selection. After the search has

 been executed, the register *and* its type can then be restored with 
 setreg(). 
vnoremap silent * :C-U
  \let old_reg=getreg('')bar
  \let old_regmode=getregtype('')cr
  \gvy/C-RC-R=substitute(substitute(
  \escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]' ), \n$, , ),
  \\n, '\\_[[:return:]]', g)crcr
  \:call setreg('', old_reg, old_regmode)cr
vnoremap silent # :C-U
  \let old_reg=getreg('')bar
  \let old_regmode=getregtype('')cr
  \gvy?C-RC-R=substitute(substitute(
  \escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]' ), \n$, , ),
  \\n, '\\_[[:return:]]', g)crcr
  \:call setreg('', old_reg, old_regmode)cr
else
 If you use both VIM 6.2 and older versions these mappings 
 should be defined depending on the current version.
vnoremap silent * :C-Ulet old_reg=@cr
  \gvy/C-RC-R=substitute(substitute(
  \escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]' ), \n$, , ),
  \\n, '\\_[[:return:]]', g)crcr
  \:let @=old_regcr
vnoremap silent # :C-Ulet old_reg=@cr
  \gvy?C-RC-R=substitute(substitute(
  \escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]' ), \n$, , ),
  \\n, '\\_[[:return:]]', g)crcr
  \:let @=old_regcr
endif

RE: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikolai Weibull
 Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:48 PM
 To: Martin Krischik
 Cc: vim-dev; vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please
 
 On 10/13/06, Nikolai Weibull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 10/13/06, Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   The ctags Patch list list [1] not been worked on for ages.
 
  I wonder why no one has taken over development/forked this project 
  yet.  It seems obvious that the current maintainer has given up 
  interest.
 
 Hm, I take that back.  It seems like development hasn't 
 stopped completely, as the last update was done in May, 2006. 
  It was mentioned earlier on this list that the lead 
 developer had stopped working on exuberant-ctags.  Maybe he's back?


Darren was dealing with some life problems which prevented him from
continuing with the development.

When the idea of forking the project popped up, he was completely against
it.
So he called for maintainers and we are just now moving forward with
volunteers to get things moving again.

At least now there are many contributors instead of just Darren and patches
submitted by the field.

As mentioned, I have taken over the maintenance of the Vim piece of ctags.

Dave

RE: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Peter Hodge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 11:24 PM
 To: David Fishburn; vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please
 
 Hello David,
 
 Can I suggest support for these commands:
 
   :set/setlocal/setglobal
   :syntax
   :highlight (and maybe :HiLink because it is so commonly used)
 
 Some examples:
 
   set foldmethod=syntax
   setlocal formatoptions+=roq
   setglobal completeopt-=preview


I can see why we might want to track settings, it is often useful to see
where a particular script is changing Vim options.

This can also work for:
let foldmethod='syntax'
let l:foldmethod='syntax'
let g:foldmethod='syntax'


 
   syntax keyword phpFunction ...
   syn match phpIdentifier ...
   syn region phpRegion ...
   sy cluster phpClTop ...
   syntax clear phpMethods
 
   highlight String ...
   hi clear Constant ...
   hi link Number ...
   hi! link Number ...
   hi def link Function ...
   HiLink Number ...


These ones I am not certain of the value.
If I open a syntax file, there are somethimes hundreds of these lines.  This
would merely identify a syn is there, but there is no real name associated
with the item.  So the tag isn't particularily meaningful.


 
 These are all pretty straightforward to find.
 
 Also, for dictionary functions would it make sense to mark 
 them twice, since they get a new 'name' if the dictionary is 
 copied to a new variable?  For
 example:
 
   let foo = { }
   function! foo.func1() dict
   endfunction
   let bar = foo
 
 There is now a function called 'bar.func1()', so maybe func1 
 should be tagged
 as:
 
   Dictionary Functions
   foo.bar /^function! foo.bar() dict/
   .bar  /^function! foo.bar() dict/


I have fixed it to return:
foo.func1 as a function tag.

Let bar = foo, if made outside of a function tags bar as a variable.  I
will not attempt to figure out what time of variable it is.  Seem my
previous response to Tony.



 I wouldn't mind if mappings could be tagged as well.

I was thinking on this topic too.

nnoremap silent Leaderyr :YRSearchCR
nnoremap silent F11 :YRShowCR

From maps I guess they have a name, in the above case it would be:
Leaderyr
F11

So these could be tagged.
I know I often open my vimrc and try to find these mappings.


 Is there or will there be any way to toggle options for the 
 way ctags scans vim files?


You can override this yourself already using the taglist.vim plugin.
'a', augroup,  autocommand groups 
'f', function, function definitions
'v', variable, variable definitions

The current version of ctags tags the above, you can override this and only
capture functions and variables if you like.

I have added another:
'c', command,  user-defined commands

And will consider adding more (like maps).
These options can be turned on or off by default.  Currently they are all
on.  To override it you provide additional information on the ctags command
line.  To do this via the taglist plugin you can do something like this in
your vimrc:
let g:tlist_vim_settings = 'vim;a:augroup;c:command;f:function;v:variable'


Dave

RE: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikolai Weibull
 Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 2:48 PM
 To: Martin Krischik
 Cc: vim-dev; vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please
 
 On 10/13/06, Nikolai Weibull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On 10/13/06, Martin Krischik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   The ctags Patch list list [1] not been worked on for ages.
 
  I wonder why no one has taken over development/forked this project 
  yet.  It seems obvious that the current maintainer has given up 
  interest.
 
 Hm, I take that back.  It seems like development hasn't 
 stopped completely, as the last update was done in May, 2006. 
  It was mentioned earlier on this list that the lead 
 developer had stopped working on exuberant-ctags.  Maybe he's back?


Darren was dealing with some life problems which prevented him from
continuing with the development.

When the idea of forking the project popped up, he was completely against
it.
So he called for maintainers and we are just now moving forward with
volunteers to get things moving again.

At least now there are many contributors instead of just Darren and patches
submitted by the field.

As mentioned, I have taken over the maintenance of the Vim piece of ctags.

Dave

VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please

[David Fishburn]

I have taken over maintenance of the VimL exuberant tags component.

For the vim plugin writers, are there any outstanding bugs or new feature
requests you have for ctags.exe?

Hari just mentioned Vim7 introduces some additional syntax items to function
names:

function mydict.len() dict
endfunction

function autoloadFunc#subdirname#Funcname()
endfunction

Support for this has been added to the next version of ctags (possibly 5.7).

I noticed a bug in variables which shows up in Vim7, since we introduced the
for/endfo construct.  Ctags starts generating variable tags for tags that
are within functions after encountering an endfo since the short form for
a endfunction is endf.
- Also fixed in the next version.


These are the items ctags currently flags:
augroup,  autocommand groups
function, function definitions
variable, variable definitions

Does it make sense to also identify autocommands?
Or possibly only autocommands if they are outside of an augroup?


When variables are identified we strip off the scope:
let s:ignoreNextCursorMovedI = 0 == ignoreNextCursorMovedI 
Should the scope be left on == s:ignoreNextCursorMovedI 


Instead of simply grouping everything under variables, should we distinguish
between different types?
let forms#form = {
  \ 'title': 'Address Entry Form',
  \ 'fields': [],
  \ 'defaultbutton': 'ok',
  \ 'fieldMap': {},
  \ 'hotkeyMap': {},
  \ }

Right now this is identified as a variable, should we identify it as a
Dictionary by adding another kind of tag?


What about identifying commands:
command! -nargs=+ Select :call s:DB_execSql(select  . q-args)


What about [ion]maps (though we cannot give them a name really, but at least
identifying where they are in the source?


We could also pick up local variables (have this off by default) and produce
something like this:
function! s:DB_runCmd(cmd, sql)
let l:display_cmd_line = 'blah'
let display_shell = 'blah'
endf

Local variables
s:DB_runCmd.display_cmd_line
s:DB_runCmd.display_shell



I am open to suggestions.
If you have suggestions, please provide code snippets so I have examples to
work from.

We can add these tags and leave them on or off by default, so having that
information is useful as well.


At this point the sky is the limit, we can hash out details as we move
forward.  Somethings might not be worth the effort.  


TIA,
Dave

RE: ctags for new Vim scripting features

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:18 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: ctags for new Vim scripting features
 
 
 Is anyone working or planning to work on enhancing exuberant 
 ctags to recognize the dict and autoloaded functions ? Does 
 this require modifying the code, or just some regex patterns?

Exuberant tags has been under going some significant changes in the last
couple of months.  It has been moved to SVN and developers are being added
to the project.  Each of us volunteer for various components.

I maintain two of the modules (sql.c and jscript.c).  I am not sure if any
one has volunteered for vim.c.  I could probably take it on if there are no
other volunteers.  I have not noticed anything lacking in it to date (minus
any new 7.x features).

What language elements are you referring to?
That would allow me to create a test case.

Dave

RE: Forms highlighting

[David Fishburn]

I gave the demo a whirl.

When you enter the State field the omni completion pops up.
You cannot hit escape to get out of this.
In fact you must choose something, even if you didn't want to.

Entering the Country field.
If you cursor is on U, press C.  I wanted to just type Canada, but of
course C in normal mode changes to end of line.  So this wiped out the rest
of the line.  It seems when the  is gone, things get messed up.  You can't
actually type anything.

So I restarted the form.
When to USA hit cw, typed in Canaada.
Realized my mistake, but my cursor on the a and hit x.
Since I was in visual mode this left me with xada.  Now use the left and
right keys to reposition yourself.  Very funky behaviour ending up with the
existing characters being repeated many times.  Actually it does this with
h,l as well.


That is all I had a chance to try this morning.

Dave

Stack trace - omni completion

[David Fishburn]

Vim 7.0 patches 1-106
WinXP SP2

In an attempt to debug one of my scripts, I added some debug statements in
my VimL.  When I did that, Vim will crash and produce the stack trace listed
below.  I can reproduce this every time, and I know the person who reported
the problem (with my script) also gets the crash.

I fired up gvimd.exe (which I compiled) and grabbed the stack trace.  If you
need more information, just let me know.


:ver
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Sep 14 2006 14:00:05)
MS-Windows 32 bit GUI version with OLE support
Included patches: 1-106
Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Big version with GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
+arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset +cindent
+clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist +cmdline_info
+comments +cryptv +cscope +cursorshape +dialog_con_gui +diff +digraphs -dnd
-ebcdic +emacs_tags +eval +ex_extra +extra_search +farsi +file_in_path
+find_in_path +folding -footer +gettext/dyn -hangul_input +iconv/dyn
+insert_expand +jumplist +keymap +langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent
+listcmds +localmap +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse +mouseshape
+multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme +netbeans_intg +ole -osfiletype
+path_extra
+perl/dyn -postscript +printer -profile +python/dyn +quickfix +reltime
+rightleft -ruby +scrollbind +signs +smartindent -sniff +statusline
-sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary +tag_old_static -tag_any_white -tcl
-tgetent -termresponse +textobjects +title +toolbar +user_commands
+vertsplit
+virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo +vreplace +wildignore +wildmenu
+windows +writebackup -xfontset -xim -xterm_save +xpm_w32
   system vimrc file: $VIM\vimrc
 user vimrc file: $HOME\_vimrc
 2nd user vimrc file: $VIM\_vimrc
  user exrc file: $HOME\_exrc
  2nd user exrc file: $VIM\_exrc
  system gvimrc file: $VIM\gvimrc
user gvimrc file: $HOME\_gvimrc
2nd user gvimrc file: $VIM\_gvimrc
system menu file: $VIMRUNTIME\menu.vim
Compilation: cl -c /W3 /nologo  -D_MT -MT -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_PATHDEF -DWIN32
-DFEAT_CSCOPE -DFEAT_NETBEANS_INTG   -DFEAT_XPM_W32   -DWINVER=0x0400 -
D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400  /Fo.\ObjGOLY/ /Ox -DNDEBUG  -DFEAT_OLE -DFEAT_GUI_W32
-DDYNAMIC_ICONV -DDYNAMIC_GETTEXT -DFEAT_PYTHON -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON  -DDYNAMI
C_PYTHON_DLL=\python24.dll\ -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL
-DDYNAMIC_PERL_DLL=\perl58.dll\ -DFEAT_BIG /Zi /Fd.\ObjGOLY/
Linking: link /RELEASE /nologo /subsystem:windows /incremental:no
/nodefaultlib:libc advapi32.lib shell32.lib gdi32.lib comdlg32.lib ole32.lib
uuid.li
b oldnames.lib kernel32.lib gdi32.lib version.lib   winspool.lib
comctl32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib  /machine:i386 /nodefaultlib
libcmt.lib oleaut3
2.lib  user32.lib /nodefaultlib:python24.libWSock32.lib
C:\download\OpenSrc\vim\XPM_support_for_Netbeans\xpm-4.2.0\lib\libXpm.lib
/PDB:.\ObjGO
LY/gvim.pdb -debug



AppName: gvimd.exe   AppVer: 7.0.262.0   ModName: gvimd.exe
ModVer: 7.0.262.0Offset: 00072f23


   gvimd.exe!AppendToRedobuffLit(unsigned char * str=0x01938acc, int
len=-1)  Line 546 + 0x9 C
gvimd.exe!ins_compl_prep(int c=67)  Line 3410 + 0xe C
gvimd.exe!edit(int cmdchar=105, int startln=0, long count=1)  Line
773 + 0x12  C
gvimd.exe!invoke_edit(cmdarg_S * cap=0x001268ac, int repl=0, int
cmd=105, int startln=0)  Line 8713 + 0x14   C
gvimd.exe!nv_edit(cmdarg_S * cap=0x001268ac)  Line 8686 + 0x14  C
gvimd.exe!normal_cmd(oparg_S * oap=0x00126900, int toplevel=0)  Line
1137 + 0x10 C
gvimd.exe!exec_normal_cmd(unsigned char * cmd=0x0176e180, int
remap=-1, int silent=0)  Line 9029 + 0xbC
gvimd.exe!ex_normal(exarg * eap=0x00126a14)  Line 8932 + 0x2c   C
gvimd.exe!do_one_cmd(unsigned char * * cmdlinep=0x00126e90, int
sourcing=1, condstack * cstack=0x00126b1c, unsigned char * (int, void *,
int)* getline=0x00437530, void * cookie=0x0012784c)  Line 2613 + 0x16   C
gvimd.exe!do_cmdline(unsigned char * cmdline=0x0176e1d0, unsigned
char * (int, void *, int)* getline=0x00437530, void * cookie=0x0012784c, int
flags=3)  Line 1099 + 0x1f  C
gvimd.exe!ex_execute(exarg * eap=0x00126f38)  Line 18186 + 0x19 C
gvimd.exe!do_one_cmd(unsigned char * * cmdlinep=0x001273b4, int
sourcing=1, condstack * cstack=0x00127040, unsigned char * (int, void *,
int)* getline=0x00437530, void * cookie=0x0012784c)  Line 2613 + 0x16   C
gvimd.exe!do_cmdline(unsigned char * cmdline=0x, unsigned
char * (int, void *, int)* getline=0x00437530, void * cookie=0x0012784c, int
flags=7)  Line 1099 + 0x1f  C
gvimd.exe!call_user_func(ufunc * fp=0x012d68a0, int argcount=2,
typval_T * argvars=0x00127d80, typval_T * rettv=0x00127e7c, long
firstline=1, long lastline=1, dictvar_S * selfdict=0x)  Line 19853 +
0x15C
gvimd.exe!call_func(unsigned char * name=0x01713d60, int len=26,
typval_T * rettv=0x00127e7c, int argcount=2, typval_T * argvars=0x00127d80,
long 

RE: Detecting when in omnicomplete

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Karl Guertin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 4:10 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Cc: VIM Help
 Subject: Re: Detecting when in omnicomplete
 
 On 9/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  If you have a look at ftplugin/sql.vim it does this.
 
 sql.vim does have different functionality based on whether 
 the popup menu is visible or not, but I don't see where it 
 distinguishes between omnicomplete and keyword completion. 
 E.g. if you hit C-nC-Right on windows, you still attempt 
 to drill down instead of doing C-Right.

That is right, since C-Right does not actually do anything when the
completion window is open, I assume you wanted to perform the drill down and
show the column list for the table highlighted in the current table list.

I am not sure if it is possible to determine why the popup window is
displaying (C-XC-O vs C-XC-N).

Dave

RE: Uppercase keywords

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 7:44 AM
 To: Marius Roets
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: Uppercase keywords
 
 Marius Roets wrote:
  Hi Vimmers,
  I have a big a (3000+ lines) source code file. The syntax 
 highlighting 
  works perfectly, so all keywords are highlighted correctly. 
 Is there 
  any way that I can use this fact to convert all keywords to 
 uppercase, 
  or do I have to do them all one by one?
  
  Thanks
  Marius
  
 
 I think it should be possible to write a function or command 
 to put the cursor on each word in turn, determine if it is a 
 keyword, and depending on the result, do either nothing or 
 normal gUaw (without the quotes). You may want to do this 
 within a visual highlighted area (i.e., from mark ` to mark 
 ` ) or as a command accepting a range (like the :s command).

Right you are Tony, that is exactly how I wrote it.

SrchRplcHiGrp.vim  - Search and Replace based on a highlight group
http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=848

Basic usage:
Place your cursor on the highlighted text.
:SRChooseHiGrp
It tells you what it found:
SRHiGrp - Group ID: 268  Name: vimLet

Or:
:SRChooseHiGrp!
SRHiGrp - Group ID: 49  Name: Statement

Add the ! if you want the base color.

Then you can visually select the region you want, the plugin supports all 3
visual modes (characterwise, linewise and blockwise).

Then run:
:','SRHiGrp

It asks you for 2 pieces of information:
1.  What to match (via a regex) default is current word - '\(\w\+\\)'
2.  What to do with the match.  The default is to UPPERCASE the match -
'\U\1'

You can also use this plugin to just search for highlight groups using the
SRSeach command.

:h SRHiGrp

Enjoy, and please rate it if you find it helpful.
Feedback is always welcome.

Dave

finds - '\(\w\+\\)'

BUG: inputdialog() does not resize on Mac

[David Fishburn]

Running this command:

echo inputdialog(Choose # of database type:\n1. None\n2. ASA\n3. MYSQL\n4.
SQLSERVER\n5. DB2,1,-1)

On Windows and Linux will correctly size the inputdialog box so that the
entire text is displayed.

On the Mac platform the inputdialog does not size appropriately and will cut
off lines 3-5.

:ver
Here is the output of version,
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Sep 27 2006 15:36:56) MacOS X
(unix) version Included patches: 1-110 Compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Normal version with Carbon GUI.  Features included (+) or not (-):
-arabic +autocmd -balloon_eval +browse +builtin_terms +byte_offset
+cindent -clientserver +clipboard +cmdline_compl +cmdline_hist 
+cmdline_info +comments +cryptv -cscope +cursorshape dialog_con_gui 
++diff +digraphs -dnd -ebcdic -emacs_tags +eval ex_extra +extra_search 
+-farsi +file_in_path +find_in_path +folding
-footer +fork() -gettext -hangul_input -iconv +insert_expand  +jumplist
-keymap -langmap +libcall +linebreak +lispindent +listcmds
+localmap +menu +mksession +modify_fname +mouse -mouseshape -mouse_dec
-mouse_gpm -mouse_jsbterm -mouse_netterm
+mouse_xterm -multi_byte +multi_lang -mzscheme -netbeans_intg
-osfiletype +path_extra -perl +postscript +printer -profile -python
+quickfix +reltime -rightleft -ruby +scrollbind -signs smartindent 
+-sniff +statusline -sun_workshop +syntax +tag_binary tag_old_static 
+-tag_any_white -tcl +terminfo +termresponse textobjects +title -toolbar 
++user_commands +vertsplit virtualedit +visual +visualextra +viminfo 
++vreplace +wildignore wildmenu +windows +writebackup -X11 -xfontset 
+-xim -xsmp
-xterm_clipboard -xterm_save
   system vimrc file: $VIM/vimrc
 user vimrc file: $HOME/.vimrc
  user exrc file: $HOME/.exrc
  system gvimrc file: $VIM/gvimrc
user gvimrc file: $HOME/.gvimrc
system menu file: $VIMRUNTIME/menu.vim
  fall-back for $VIM: /Applications/Vim.app/Contents/Resources/vim
Compilation: gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MAC -fno-common
-fpascal-strings -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -mdynamic-no-pic -pipe -I.
-Iproto -DMACOS_X_UNIX -no-cpp-precomp -I/Deve loper/Headers/FlatCarbon  -O
-fno-strength-reduce -Wall
Linking: gcc   -L/usr/local/lib -o Vim -framework Carbon  -lncurses

Dave

Re: Detecting when in omnicomplete

[David . Fishburn]

If you have a look at ftplugin/sql.vim it does this.

I override the ctrl-left|right keys. When pumvisible() is false I want to do 
the default Vim behaviour. When it is true I want to perform special SQL 
actions.

I was only able to do this via a mapping which called a function. But that does 
keept it neat and tidy.

HTH,
Dave




- Original Message -
From: Karl Guertin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09/26/2006 11:50 AM
To: VIM Help vim@vim.org
Subject: Detecting when in omnicomplete

I'm playing around with keybindings and omnicompletion and I'd like a
special set of keybindings when pumvisible() and it's an omnicomplete
match. I can mostly do this by setting a buffer variable in all my
mappings that would cause me to enter/exit omnicomplete, but I keep
missing edge cases. Is there a better way to detect which completion
mode vim is in?

ANN: dbext.vim 4.0 released

[David Fishburn]

 
What is it?
---
dbext.vim : Provides database access to most databases.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=356

This plugin contains functions/mappings/commands to enable Vim to access
several databases. Currently Mysql, PostgreSQL, Ingres, Oracle, Sybase
Adaptive Server Anywhere, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Microsoft SQL
Server, DB2 and Interbase are supported.  It abstracts database access, so
the same Vim commands will produce the same output regardless of the
database you use.

What is new in 4.0?

- dbext.vim now requires Vim7.
- dbext.vim no longer has dependencies on other plugins by utilizing the new
Vim7 features (Lists and Dictionaries).
- When using the DBCompleteTable, DBCompleteProcedure, DBCompleteView
commands errors are displayed instead of silently ignored.  This makes them
more useful with the sqlComplete plugin (see |sql.txt|).
- Added new option, dbext_default_MYSQL_version, for MySQL to indicate the
version you using.
- You can optionally define a function, DBextPostResult, in your .vimrc,
this function will be called each time the result window is updated.  This
function can be used to do anything, for example, syntax highlighting the
result set in the result window.

Bug Fixes

- Added version support with MySQL to control what SQL is sent for version 4
and 5 servers. 

After installing the plugin you can use:

:h dbext.txt
:h dbext-tutorial.txt


David Fishburn

RE: Single-File Vim?

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Dmitriy Yamkovoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:06 PM
 To: Vim List
 Subject: Single-File Vim?
 
 Hi all,
 Is there a binary compiled for Windows which allows me to run 
 Vim without any of the runtime files?  Long story short, I 
 want something I can keep online or on a USB key and just 
 copy to the desktop of any computer I sit at.


We had a large discussion on this topic probably six months back.

A number of us do this (on the Windows platforms).
We each had various options on how we do it.

I personally:
1.  Copied my Vim directory to my USB key.
2.  Run a batch file whenever I want to use Vim directly from the USB key.

The batch file is simple.  It puts the k:\Vim\vim70 in the $PATH (assuming
k: is the USB key).

No setting of $VIM or $VIMRUNTIME is required.

Here is my batch file if anyone is interested.

@echo off

@rem You can have Windows automatically run a batch file when you open
@rem a new command prompt by:
@rem HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\AutoRun 
@rem and set it to run a BAT script of your choice when it 
@rem starts up. 
@rem
@rem I don't like this option and prefer to setup a shortcut to run:
@rem %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cmd.exe /F:ON /K c:\vim\tools\setupVim.bat
@rem The /F:ON enables file/directory completion using CTRL-F.  This
@rem is useful if you do not have any rights on the machine to modify:
@rem HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Command
Processor\CompletionChar
@rem and set it to hex 9 (TAB)

@rem Determine which drive letter we are executing this from:
@rem % 0 = the cmdline used to launch the cmd file.
@rem for /f %%i in ('echo %0') do @echo curr_dir=%%~di
@rem From HELP FOR (when typed from a cmd.exe prompt)
@rem You can now use the following optional syntax:
@rem % ~I - expands %I removing any surrounding quotes ()
@rem % ~fI- expands %I to a fully qualified path name
@rem % ~dI- expands %I to a drive letter only
@rem
@rem This will set BLAH = the current directory of the batch file
@remset BLAH=%~dp0
@for /f %%i in (%0) do @SET cmd_driveletter=%%~di
@SET driveletter=%cmd_driveletter

@echo.
@echo Executing %0 from this drive: %cmd_driveletter%
@echo.

@IF %1. NEQ . SET driveletter=%1:
@IF NOT EXIST %driveletter%\ SET driveletter=%cmd_driveletter%

:SETPATH
@echo.
@echo. Check if Vim is already in the PATH
@echo.
@echo on
@for %%P in (%PATH%) do @IF EXIST %%P\gvim.exe GOTO ALLREADYINPATH
@echo off
@echo.
@echo.Not already in PATH, adding it
@echo.
@goto ADDTOPATH


@echo.
@echo. Check if Vim is already in the PATH
@echo.
@echo on
%driveletter%\Vim\Tools\which.exe gvim.exe
@echo off
@IF %errorlevel% EQU 0 GOTO ALLREADYINPATH


:ADDTOPATH
@echo.
@echo. Setup path to include $VIM and other standard utilities
@echo.
@echo on
SET
PATH=%driveletter%\vim\tools;%driveletter%\Vim\Vim70;%driveletter%\util;%dri
veletter%\util\unix_tools;%PATH%
@echo off
@goto END

:ALLREADYINPATH
@echo.
@echo. Vim is already in the PATH
@echo.
@goto END

:END

Taglist and html vs php vs javascript

[David Fishburn]

Vim 7.0.106

When I edit an HTML file and open the taglist plugin it correctly checks for
Javascript tags.

When I edit a PHP file, the taglist plugin gets only the PHP tags, when most
PHP pages would also have HTML and Javascript embedded within it.

Does anyone know if this is a feature of ctags, the taglist plugin, or a
filetype plugin that sets all of this up?  Or of course how to enable this.

If someone had that off the top of their heads that would be great, save me
having to dig into it.

Thanks,
Dave

RE: Taglist and html vs php vs javascript

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:56 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Taglist and html vs php vs javascript
 
 
 Vim 7.0.106
 
 When I edit an HTML file and open the taglist plugin it 
 correctly checks for Javascript tags.
 
 When I edit a PHP file, the taglist plugin gets only the PHP 
 tags, when most PHP pages would also have HTML and Javascript 
 embedded within it.
 
 Does anyone know if this is a feature of ctags, the taglist 
 plugin, or a filetype plugin that sets all of this up?  Or of 
 course how to enable this.
 
 If someone had that off the top of their heads that would be 
 great, save me having to dig into it.

Damn, how emabarrasing.

It already does this, I just should have paid more attention and choose a
more revealing file.

Sorry.
Dave

RE: previous buffer?

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Lev Lvovsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:51 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: previous buffer?
 
 In regards to moving around buffers, is there any way to move 
 between the last two buffers that were worked on?  Meaning, 
 if I have 10 files in buffers, and I'm working on buffer 5, 
 switch to buffer 8, how can I switch back to buffer 5 without 
 knowing its number (but knowing it was the last buffer I was editing)?

:h alternate-file

CTRL-^

HTH,
Dave

RE: Open each file in newtab (without using -p)

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Groleo Marius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:11 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Open each file in newtab (without using -p)
 
 I can't find any reference to the $subject, nor on web nor in :help.
 Basically, I'm searching for a method to open a new file in 
 its own tab.
 Opening  a new file might mean :e or a CTRL-]

:tab new c:\temp\whatever.txt

HTH,
Dave

RE: Allow only one instance of vim on Windows

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Stelian Iancu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 3:59 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Allow only one instance of vim on Windows
 
 Hello there,
 
 I've been using vim on and off for about 5 years now but now 
 I've decided to switch entirely to vim.
 
 Up until now I've used UltraEdit and this one can be 
 configured that every file that I open with it is opened in 
 another tab of the existing instance. Can vim 7.x be 
 configured to behave the same?

Depends on how you work within windows to launch files, which will dictate
how easy this is.

For example, on windows I always work from command prompts.
When I want to edit a file I type:
vimt.cmd filename

Vimt.cmd does the following:


@rem Default the instance name to GVIM - Vims default
@set vim_instance=GVIM

@rem Override it if necessary
if %2. NEQ . set vim_instance=%2
@echo on
@echo %0
start gvim.exe --servername %vim_instance% --remote-tab-silent %1 


That will do what you want.

HTH,
Dave

RE: [viminfo] Vim can't remeber position

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 10:15 AM
 To: Lu Tan Hoa
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: [viminfo] Vim can't remeber position
 
 Lu Tan Hoa wrote:
  Dear vim-list,
  
  I compile Vim-7.0 from source with default config.
  $ vim --version | grep viminfo
  +user_commands +vertsplit +virtualedit +visual +visualextra 
 +viminfo 
  +vreplace
  
  I also put viminfo variable in ~/.vimrc as:
  set viminfo='20,50,s10,h,r/mnt/usb
  
  But, when I open an old file, cursor always goto the first 
 line Do I 
  miss something in configuration step
  
  Thanks and regards,
 
 I recommend adding the line
 
   runtime vimrc_example.vim
 
 near the top of your vimrc.
 
 But if you don't want to, you can still copy the autocommand 
 found near line 70 of $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim, as follows:
 
 When editing a file, always jump to the last known 
 cursor position.
 Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside 
 an event handler
 (happens when dropping a file on gvim).
autocmd BufReadPost *
  \ if line('\)  0  line('\) = line($) |
  \   exe normal g`\ |
  \ endif
 


This has been further enhanced and documented here:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=80

HTH,
Dave

RE: Vim and cscope - E623: Could not spawn cscope process

[David Fishburn]

Glad it is all working.
Just posting this to the forum in case other users run into the same issue.
 

 -Original Message-
 From: Sibin P. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:04 AM
 To: David Fishburn
 Subject: RE: Vim and cscope
 
 Hey thanks a lot Dave, it's working finally :)
 
 I guess the only thing I had missed out earlier was the 
 .exe in the command :se csprg=D:\cscope\bin\cscope. I now 
 made it :se csprg=D:\cscope\bin\cscope.exe and Voila it works!!.
 
 Once again thanks a million for all the help (u have no idea 
 how many days I spent over this; initially googling and later 
 changing cscope source code!)
 
 Regards,
 Sibin
 
 -Original Message-
 From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:55 PM
 To: Sibin P. Thomas
 Subject: RE: Vim and cscope
 
 This is what I have in my vimrc
 
 if has(cscope)
  Most often I find I need to recursively look at data
  You cannot use (reports an error opening subdirs):
  cscope -R *.sql
  You must use:
  cscope -R 
  But that only gets C/CPP files.
  I have to do this:
  find -name *.sql  cscope.files
or dir /s/b *.sql  cscope.files
  cscope -b (create the cscope database)
  cscope -C (queries this with case insensitivity)
 
  To open the same options in Vim:
  cs add cscope.out . -C  (for case insensitivity)
 
  For help on cscope and Vim:
  :cs
  :h cs
 
 let cscopeprg = expand('$VIM\Tools\cscope.exe')
  If 'csto' is set to zero, cscope database(s) are searched first,
  followed  by tag file(s) if cscope did not return any matches. 
 set cscopetagorder=0
  set cscopetag
 set nocscopeverbose
  determines how many components of a file's path to display
 set cscopepathcomp=3
  Use the quickfix window for the cscope query
 set cscopequickfix=s-,c-,d-,i-,t-,e-
  add any database in current directory
 
 if filereadable(cscope.out)
  cscope -C (queries this with case insensitivity)
 exec 'cs add '.expand('%:p:h').'\cscope.out  '
  else add database pointed to by environment
 elseif $CSCOPE_DB != 
 cs add $CSCOPE_DB
 endif
 set csverb
 endif
 
  
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Sibin P. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:25 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: Vim and cscope
  
  This is my vimrc file and this is what I did 1. run cscope 
 -R in the 
  directory c:\path. This directory contains my project.
  2. open a file C:\path\sub_directory\sub_dir_level2\file.c
  3. give the command :cs add c:\path\cscope.out
  This is when I get the error E623: Could not spawn cscope process
  
  Just tell me where I am going wrong?
  I have the exact same setup as yours i.e. 
  Vim 7 and 6.3. 
  Winxp sp2
  Cscope 16.0a
  
  Regards,
  Sibin
  
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 10:39 AM
  To: Sibin P. Thomas
  Subject: Re: Vim and cscope
  
  I just tried it again. 
  Vim 7 and 6.3. 
  Winxp sp2
  Cscope 16.0a (I think). 
  Sorry, can't think of anything else. 
  Unless you have more than 1 cscope in your path and it is 
 getting the 
  wrong one first.
  What Vim cscope options did you set?
  
  
  
  - Original Message -
  From: Sibin P. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: 08/07/2006 09:11 PM
  To: David Fishburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: RE: Vim and cscope
  
  I had checked all this before using the last resort of 
 asking help in 
  the mailing list. Just for the record the :echo
  has('cscope') returns 1 and there is a +cscope in the 
 version info(in 
  both the versions I have tried).
  
  Also I researched the problem and went through the cscope 
 source code 
  (of version 15.4) and *I think* that the problem lies in 
 the function 
  spawnvp()
  which MSDN states that is not supported anymore (we should use the 
  function _spawnvp() now).
  I must state that the I don't have any conclusive evidence to prove 
  that spawnvp() is the culprit.
  
  I tried changing the source and recompiling but was going 
 in circles 
  hence the SOS. I was hoping someone would have come across this 
  problem already and solved it already :)
  
  Regards,
  Sibin
  
  -Original Message-
  From: David Fishburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 12:12 AM
  To: Sibin P. Thomas
  Subject: RE: Vim and cscope
  
  What is returned with this:
  :echo has('cscope')
  
  Or browse the output of :ver.
  
  Dave
   
  
   -Original Message-
   From: Sibin P. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:50 AM
   To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Subject: RE: Vim and cscope
   
   
   Hi Dave,
   
   I was initially using the cscope version 15.4 then I 
 downloaded the 
   version u pointed me to (version 16.0a), both

RE: Saveing of a recorded macro

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Meino Christian Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 6:27 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Saveing of a recorded macro
 
 Hi,
 
  is it possible and 
 
  if true 
  then
   how()
 
  endif
 
 to save a recorded macro to a file ?

I have done this in the past as follows:

1.  Record your macro into the a register
2.  Open your vimrc
3.  Create a new line with:
autocmd FileType sql let @a='
4.  Pressing (in insert mode) C-Ra, this will paste your recorded macro
into your vimrc, then add a final single quote.
5.  The problem with step 4 is newlines and escapes are lost.  So to fix
this, you can:
- For each newline (or carriage return you want in your macro) erase
the new line and then (still in insert mode) press C-VC-M (that is
control V followed by control M).
- For each escape you need in your macro, add a C-VC-[
6.  So you will end up with something like this:
autocmd FileType sql let @a='/sys^Mcwbob^[nn.^M'

This means, each time I edit a file with a filetype of sql, the a register
will automatically have  your macro recorded, so you can re-execute the
macro (in normal mode) pressing @a.

7.  This macro does:
autocmd FileType sql let @a='/sys^Mcwbob^[nn.^M'
- /sys^M - find sys (and the user had to have pressed enter)
- cwbob^[ - change word to bob and press escape to get out of
insert mode
- Skip one find
- .^M - repeat my last cw command

8.  Obviously you are going to make lots of mistakes as you do this.  It is
very easy to test you macro, fix it, and test again.  
- You can move your cursor to after the first single quote.
- Press v (to start linewise visual mode)
- Move your cursor to the end of your macro
- Press ay - which yanks your visually selected text into the a
register
- Re-execute the macro pressing @a

Hope that helps you.  It is a bit figity, but it works and does what you
need.

Other people may have suggestions on how to replace the newline (or carriage
returns) with the ^M and add the escapes where necessary.

Dave

RE: netrw v103b - No longer can browse directories

[David Fishburn]

 On Tue 1-Aug-06 1:52am -0600, Hugo Ahlenius wrote:
 
  I just upgraded netrw to netrw 103b from Charles Campbell's 
 web-site. 
  Now it seems like opening a directory by just trying to edit it 
  doesn't work, like it used to:
  :e c:\

I am having a similar issue, but I am using 102 from the main Vim website:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075


...
 If so, either remove it (all 6 files) or make the following 
 change to $vim\plugin\netrwPlugin.vim:
 
 Replace (right after the Load Once line):
 
 if exists(g:loaded_netrw)
  finish
 endif
 
 with:
 
 if exists(g:loaded_netrwPlugin)
  finish
 endif
 let g:loaded_netrwPlugin = 1


I don't like modifying files in the $VIM directory.

I tried this and it still did not fix the problem on my machine (I still
cannot browse the files in my directory).

I also get this:
:pwd
C:\

:e .
C:\ Illegal file name


Dave

RE: Vim and cscope

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Sibin P. Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 6:25 AM
...
 I tried integrating Cscope 15.4 with Vim7.0 on WinXP (I have 
 installed cygwin too); but whenever I try to use cscope in 
 Vim I get the following error - 
 
 E623: Could not spawn cscope process.

Sounds like you are using the cscope from the open source project.

You need a special version of cscope that is integrated with Vim.
:h cscope-info

Will point you to different downloads locations.

Since you are on win32, you need to download it from:
http://iamphet.nm.ru/cscope/index.html
:h cscope-win32

HTH,
Dave

RE: a question about 'diff' setting

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:53 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: a question about 'diff' setting
...
 Can anyone explain why and what I should do to avoid 
 this (other than remembering to run :diffoff before closing, 
 or doing a :bufdo diffoff later).


I keep this in my vimrc:
if v:version = 602
command! -bar -bang Nodiff wincmd l bar onlybang bar set nodiff
noscrollbind scrollopt-=hor wrap foldcolumn=0 virtualedit= 
else
command! -bar Nodiff exe 'wincmd l' bar only bar set nodiff
noscrollbind wrap foldcolumn=0 scrollopt-=hor virtualedit= bar let
g:diff_msg_shown = 0
endif

I think Gary Johnson came up with it initially.

Try that to see if it works.  The command! lines are on 1 line only.

Dave

dbext.vim 3.5 released

[David Fishburn]

What is it?
---
dbext.vim : Provides database access to most databases.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=356

This plugin contains functions/mappings/commands to enable Vim to access
several databases. Currently Mysql, PostgreSQL, Ingres, Oracle, Sybase
Adaptive Server Anywhere, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Microsoft SQL
Server, DB2 and Interbase are supported.  It abstracts database access, so
the same Vim commands will produce the same output regardless of the
database you are connected to.

What is new in 3.50?


 - g:dbext_default_inputdialog_cancel_support = 0 will prevent 
   inputdialog from providing a cancel option.  This works around
   a Vim7 bug.  dbext will automatically detect this and set the
   option the first time it is encountered.
 - Changed the order of some of the text in the dialog boxes to 
   make them more readable when using the console version of Vim.
 - dbext can parse SQL statements and prompt the user to replace
   variables with values prior to sending the statement to the database
   to be executed.  This is useful for testing SQL which is embedded
   in your code without having to manually replace variables and string
   concatentation.  A new identifier (the until flag) allows you to 
   specify the beginning of a string and what to prompt for until a 
   finishing string.  This makes it more flexible for you to configure
   what you would like prompting for when looking for variables.

Bug Fixes

- DBPromptForBufferParameters can report E180: Invalid complete value: -1
   if running the console version of Vim.  dbext will detect this problem 
   and automatically set g:dbext_default_inputdialog_cancel_support = 0 to 
   work around this Vim7 bug.


After installing the plugin you can use:

:h dbext.txt
:h dbext-tutorial.txt


David Fishburn

RE: Inability to map C-N when completion popup is visible

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:23 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Inability to map C-N when completion popup is visible
 
 
 I am trying to map C-N and C-P to behave differently when
 pumvisible() returns true, but Vim seems to completely ignore this.
 E.g., if I create this unconditional map (a much simpler one 
 than what I
 wanted):
 
 inoremap C-N C-C
 
 pressing ^N normally stops insertmode, but when popup is 
 visible, Vim never executes the map. This may be true for 
 C-P also, but the same is not true for, say Up.
 
 inoremap Up C-C
 
 Using the above map, pressing Up arrow always stops insert 
 mode, whether popup is visible or not. Is this a bug? I 
 tested by starting with -u NONE option to avoid any other 
 interferences.

I had a lot of problems trying to get this to work as well.

In the end I was unable to map it without making a function call.

autoload/sqlcomplete.vim does the following:

if has('win32')
imap buffer c-right C-R=sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()CR
imap buffer c-left  C-R=sqlcomplete#DrillOutOfColumns()CR
endif

function! sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()
 If the omni popup window is visible
if pumvisible()
call sqlcomplete#Map('column')
 C-Y, makes the currently highlighted entry active
 and trigger the omni popup to be redisplayed
call feedkeys(\C-Y\C-X\C-O)
else
if has('win32')
 If the popup is not visible, simple perform the normal
 C-Right behaviour
exec normal! \C-Right
endif
endif
return 
endfunction

In this case, if the popup window is not visible I want to perform the
standard C-Right so the user does not loose any functionality due to the
mapping.

For the lurkers, this is for Vim7 since pumvisible() and feedkeys() are Vim7
functions.

HTH,
Dave

RE: omni completion, calling different types

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Silent1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:39 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: omni completion, calling different types
 
 I'm using the omni completion so far on my php scripts and 
 i'm wondering if there are ways i can call different sets of 
 data with different key strokes.
 
 ctrl-x+ctrl+o will bring up everything and display everything and will
 open up a preview window that has info if a function is 
 called with parameters. How do i get the menu that comes up 
 to display the parameters as well? They come up in the 
 preview window just fine just wondering if i can see them in 
 the drop down menu.
 

This is up to the plugin developer.

The sqlcomplete.vim plugin has been designed to work with other completion
plugins.  Since most programming languages today have some form of access to
a database you still need to be able program SQL.  So regardless whether you
are programming in PHP, Ruby, JSP, VimL you can do the following:
:e file.php
:set ft=sql
:set ft=php

Now the SQL completion is active and can be used in conjunction with the PHP
completion plugin.

It is triggered (while in insert mode) using C-C followed by a key.
The key is what allows you to filter what is displayed in popup window.
The key can be many things:
t - table list
p - procedure list
v - view list
a - all syntax items
k - keywords (for the SQL syntax language)
And so on.


Perhaps Mikolaj could extend the PHP completion plugin in the same manner.

Dave

ANN: SQLComplete.vim update to version 5.0

[David Fishburn]

Announcing an update to the sqlcomplete.vim script which is included in
Vim7.
If you are using dbext.vim 3.0 and taking advantage of the table and column
completion capabilities the update to version 5.0 of the script makes it a
bit smarter when determine if you are entering partial column names or
tables names along with owner/creator features.

Read on for more details if you are not already using it.

Enjoy.
Dave



http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1572
SQLComplete.vim : SQLComplete is a SQL code completion system using the
omnifunc framework

description
SQLComplete.vim is a plugin which uses the new Vim7 OMNI completion features
(intellisense code completion).

SQLComplete.vim version 4.0 is included in the Vim 7.0 release.

What does it do:
---
Completion for the SQL language includes statements, functions, keywords,
operators and database options which it draws from the current SQL syntax
file in use.  Vim ships with 9 different SQL syntax files (Oracle, Informix,
MySQL, SQL Anywhere, ...).

It will also dynamically complete tables, procedures, views and column lists
with data pulled directly from within a database.  It does this in
conjunction with the dbext.vim vimscript #356.  For detailed instructions
and a tutorial see |omni-sql-completion|.

Existing instructions can be found within Vim7 using
:h sql.txt
:h sql-completion

This plugin is new to Vim7.  Improvements to the script will be uploaded
here, and supplied to Bram for inclusion into future versions of Vim7.
 
install details
Copy sqlcomplete.vim to:
.vim/autoload/sqlcomplete.vim (Unix)
vimfiles\autoload\sqlcomplete.vim (Windows)

For documentation:
:h sql.txt
 

RE: Inputdialog() broken in Vim7

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Yegappan Lakshmanan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:16 PM
 To: David Fishburn
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: Inputdialog() broken in Vim7
 
 Hi David,
 
 On 6/8/06, David Fishburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Vim 7 and 7.1-17 on WinXP SP2
 
  This should affect all Vim platforms, not just Windows.
 
  Could someone please confirm this is a bug.
 
  If you run this command from a GUI enabled vim:
  :echo inputdialog('hello:', 10, -1)
 
  You get a dialog box displayed which says hello, with a default 
  value of 10.  Pressing OK, returns 10, pressing cancel returns -1.
 
  If you run the same command from a console Vim, you get:
  E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 
  :h E180
  Completion behavior 
 *:command-completion*
  
 *E179* *E180* 
  *E181* By default, the arguments of user defined commands do not 
  undergo completion.
 
  This of course is not a user defined command.
 
  This also works fine under vim 6.3.
 
  I am not sure if this has been reported before.
 
 
 This is a regression caused by the change to the input() 
 function to accept a user-specified completion. When 
 inputdialog() function is used in a non-GUI Vim, the input() 
 function is used internally.

So that means it will be fixed as some point and I shouldn't have to change
the code in my plugin right?

Thanks,
Dave

RE: Updated PHP syntax file

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Peter Hodge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 9:38 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Updated PHP syntax file
 
 Hello all,
 
 I have recently been given the go-ahead to take over 
 maintenance of the PHP syntax file ( 
 http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-vim-maintainers/2
 006-May/002857.html
 ), and have added several modifications, but I'm unable to 
 host the file on my own web server.  Stefano mentioned I 
 should email the updated file to Bram, should I also add it 
 to vim.org/scripts/ as a syntax script? (So that I can 
 include a URL in the file for people to find updates.)

Yes, adding the file to vim.org as a syntax script is the right way of doing
this.  Have a look for other syntax scripts to get the idea.

You can start with one of mine:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=498

HTH,
Dave

RE: Script dbext.vim no longer working with Vim 7.x?

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Matthias Pitzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:37 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Script dbext.vim no longer working with Vim 7.x?
 
 Hello!
 
 I just installed the dbext.vim script as it's features really 
 sound nice to me. Unfortunately i fail yet at the database 
 connection dialogs.
 When running the :DBPromptForBufferParameters command i get 
 following error messages:
 --
 Please choose # of database type:
 0. None
 1. ASA
 2. ASE
 3. DB2
 4. INGRES
 5. INTERBASE
 6. MYSQL
 7. ORA
 8. PGSQL
 9. SQLSRV
 10. SQLITE
 Error detected while processing function 
 SNR8_DB_execFuncWCheck..SNR8_DB_resetBufferParameters..SN
 R8_DB_promptForParameters..SNR8_DB_getInput:
 line2:
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 Connection parameters have been defaulted
 
 Please choose # of database type:
 0. None
 1. ASA
 2. ASE
 3. DB2
 4. INGRES
 5. INTERBASE
 6. MYSQL
 7. ORA
 8. PGSQL
 9. SQLSRV
 10. SQLITE
 Error detected while processing function 
 SNR8_DB_execFuncWCheck..SNR8_DB_promptForParameters..SNR
 8_DB_getInput:
 line2:
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 E180: Invalid complete value: -1
 
 --
 
 Does anyone of you know what's wrong here or if this nice 
 sounding plugin just doesn't work with Vim 7.x yet?

I thought I had already fixed this issue.  It should be part of the
dbext.vim 3.0 release.

What version did you install?

Did you also install the dependent script files from Hari?  

They are listed in the same page:
Dbext.vim 3.0 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=356
Hari Krishna Dara's two plugins:
multvals.vim (3.5.1) - http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=171
genutils.vim (1.10.1) - http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=197 

Thanks,
Dave
 

RE: HTML editing with vim: where to start ?

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Mikolaj Machowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 6:57 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: HTML editing with vim: where to start ?
 
 Dnia wtorek, 16 maja 2006 18:37, A.J.Mechelynck napisał:
  Ivan Vecerina wrote:
  [...]
 
   For example, here are a few simple things I need to do 
 all the time:
   [...]
- get vim to automatically close/complete the innermost 
 previously 
   opened tag.
 
  [...]
 
  see the closeag.vim plugin,
  http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=13
 
 For base needs this is not needed. Closetag is now part of 
 completion scripts for HTML.


Since Ivan mentioned he is using PHP with his HTML, closetag will be very
useful for him.

I keep the following in my vimrc:

 CloseTag options:
 http://vim.sourceforge.net/script.php?script_id=13
 closetag.vim
 Functions and mappings to close open HTML/XML tags
 This uses C-_ to close an open tag above
if filereadable(expand('$VIM/vimfiles/scripts/closetag.vim')) 
let g:closetag_html_style=1
autocmd Filetype html,xml,xsl,sql,ant,sqlunit,mhtml,php source
$VIM/vimfiles/scripts/closetag.vim 
endif

HTH,
Dave

RE: About CursorHoldI , pumvisible()

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: ice_2001cn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:48 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: About CursorHoldI , pumvisible()
 
 
 au! CursorHoldI *.cpp nested call PreviewWord() func! PreviewWord()
   if pumvisible()
   call confirm('pumvisible')
   return
   endif
   call confirm(''+pumvisible())
 endf
 
 
 I found, while I use c-xc-u for a cpp code completion, 
 The code shown above allways show a message 0
 why?

Hmm, where I can't specifically comment on your problem, I can show you some
code I wrote that does work in this situation for the sqlcomplete.vim
plugin.

imap buffer c-right  C-R=sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()CR

function! sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()
 If the omni popup window is visible
if pumvisible()
call sqlcomplete#Map('column')
 C-Y, makes the currently highlighted entry active
 and trigger the omni popup to be redisplayed
call feedkeys(\C-Y\C-X\C-O)
else
if has('win32')
 If the popup is not visible, simple perform the normal
 C-Right behaviour
exec normal! \C-Right
endif
endif
return 
endfunction

I would suggest trying something other than i_CTRL-X_CTRL-U to see if the
behaviour is any different.

HTH,
Dave

ANN: dbext.vim 3.0 released

[David Fishburn]

What is it?
---
dbext.vim : Provides database access to most databases.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=356

This plugin contains functions/mappings/commands to enable Vim to access
several databases. Currently Mysql, PostgreSQL, Ingres, Oracle, Sybase
Adaptive Server Anywhere, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise, Microsoft SQL
Server, DB2 and Interbase are supported.  It abstracts database access, so
the same Vim commands will produce the same output regardless of the
database you are connected to.

What is new in 3.00?


The new autoload/sqlcomplete.vim plugin which shipped with Vim 7.0 utiliizes
the features of the dbext.vim 3.0 plugin to provide dynamic table /
procedure / view / column completion while editing SQL code.  To take
advantage of the new 7.0 omni completion to it's fullest you need this
update to the dbext.vim plugin.

New Features

- dbext supports a history of previous commands.  The DBHistory command will
display a numbered list of previous SQL statements.  Pressing enter or
double clicking on one of the items will execute the statement.  The number
of items in the list is configurable via your vimrc.  The history items are
stored in a file, dbext_sql_history.txt.  The location of the file can also
be controlled.
- The 'refresh' feature added in version 2.30 has been updated to take
advantage of the history feature.
- The PHP parser has improved and can handle single or double quoted
strings, string concatenation and host variables.  It will correctly strip
the quotes, join the concatenated strings and prompt the user for host
variables before executing the SQL statement.
- Updated documentation for Vim 7 SQL code completion.
- Table, procedure and view dictionaries include the owner name of the
object.  This is on by default, but can be controlled via a new global
option, dbext_default_dict_show_owner.  This has not been enabled for all
databases it depends on whether the database supports this feature.  The
autoload\sqlcomplete.vim plugin takes advantage of this feature.
- Added support for stored procedures / functions in MySQL 5.

Bug Fixes

- Updated the PHP parser to work with a more varied string quotes and string
concatenation.
- The extra feature did not add a leading space for MySQL.  Using the
tabbed output required updates to the parsing of the output generated by
MySQL.
- Miscellaneous documentation updates.


As usual, I would like any and all feedback from those who try it.  Don't be
shy!

Both plugins provide help and tutorials to help you learn how to take
advantage these plugins.
After installing the plugins you can use:

:h dbext.txt
:h dbext-tutorial.txt

:h sql.txt
:h sql-completion-tutorial


David Fishburn

RE: lookupfile.vim (WAS Re: fast file opening / find file as you type)

[David Fishburn]

   -Original Message-
   From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:06 PM
   To: Benjamin Reitzammer
   Cc: Benjamin Reitzammer; vim@vim.org
   Subject: lookupfile.vim (WAS Re: fast file opening / find file as 
   you type)
...
 
  I tried it, it didn't work as expected so I read the instructions!!
 
 Can you tell me what happened? I forgot to recognize the 
 dependency on genutils, but I hope you have it installed, so 
 I wonder whatelse the problem could be. Did you have the 
 window open and were you able to start typing the pattern? 
 With my regular huge tags file, it takes forever to find 
 matches, but if you create a specialized tags file, it is very fast.
 
 
  Anyway since I didn't do this:
  find . -print | sort | awk '{printf %s\t%s\t1\n, $0, $0;}'  
  filenametag
 
 Did it not work even after that?
 
 
  If the tagfile isn't specified, what about generating the 
 contents for 
  the completion window from the globpath using either $PATH or path?
 
  In my case, path is the default of '.,,', but I set it using:
  :let path=substitute($PATH, ';', ',', 'g')
 
  Then I hit F5.
 
  What do you think?
 
 Are you talking about running globpath()? This is possible, 
 but won't recognize path entries with ** etc.. I will try 
 this out and see how it works out.


Bit of a non-specific bug report, sorry.

When I press F5, the little window opens.
Except it will always be empty since I don't have any tag files.

I was hoping for some configuration items.

1.  Check if any tags are available
2.  If not, check if path is useful
3.  If not, use $PATH (convert format where appropriate).

Or allow me to specify this from within my vimrc.


 Are you talking about running globpath()? This is possible, 
 but won't recognize path entries with ** etc.. I will try 
 this out and see how it works out.

I thought this changed in Vim7.

Thanks,
Dave

RE: lookupfile.vim (WAS Re: fast file opening / find file as you type)

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Hari Krishna Dara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:06 PM
 To: Benjamin Reitzammer
 Cc: Benjamin Reitzammer; vim@vim.org
 Subject: lookupfile.vim (WAS Re: fast file opening / find 
 file as you type)
 
 
 Actually, I started with the below idea, and created a plugin 
 that works more or less like what the OP wanted. It uses the 
 Vim completion mechanism to bringup a popup dialog with 
 matching filenames. Works best when you have a dedicated tags 
 file the way I originaly proposed (see the script header). 
 Can anyone try the attached plugin and give me feedback?

You know me Hari, I can't refuse your plugins.

I tried it, it didn't work as expected so I read the instructions!!

Anyway since I didn't do this:
find . -print | sort | awk '{printf %s\t%s\t1\n, $0, $0;}' 
filenametag

If the tagfile isn't specified, what about generating the contents for the
completion window from the globpath using either $PATH or path?

In my case, path is the default of '.,,', but I set it using:
:let path=substitute($PATH, ';', ',', 'g')

Then I hit F5.

What do you think?

Dave

RE: perlcomplete.vim -- anyone working on this?

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Kevin Old [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 3:46 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: perlcomplete.vim -- anyone working on this?
 
 Hello,
 
 I was shocked that there wasn't a perlcomplete.vim in the 
 source and would like to create one or help someone who's writing one.

Well, in the interim you can use the syntaxcomplete omni completion plugin.

See :h ft-syntax-omni

This will complete any of Vim's 481 currently shipping syntax files.  Easy
to enable and as long as Vim can syntax colour your code, this plugin will
provide completion using those items.

You can automate this by placing the following in your vimrc (after any
:filetype command): 
if has(autocmd)  exists(+omnifunc)
autocmd Filetype *
\   if omnifunc ==  |
\   setlocal omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete |
\   endif
endif


Have fun.
Dave

RE: Vim 7 - a little graphical introduction

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
 4mir Salihefendic
 Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 1:08 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Vim 7 - a little graphical introduction
 
 I just did a little blog post highlighting the new stuff in Vim 7.
 I did this with a little twist - there is animation of the 
 new features. The link:
 http://amix.dk/index.py/permanentLink?id=130
 
 Could be useful if you are trying to hype vim 7 to friends ;-)

Those are nice.

Maybe you should add one for the new Tab support.

Dave

RE: 70f - Scroll wheel scrolls wrong window

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 6:14 PM
 To: David Fishburn
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: 70f - Scroll wheel scrolls wrong window
 
 
 David Fishburn wrote:
 
  Though I cannot reproduce it, this has been happening to me 
 throughout 
  the betas.
  
  70f WinXP SP2
  
  I have the Taglist window open (though I don't believe it 
 is related).
  So my window is split vertically.
  My cursor is in normal mode in the right hand pane.
  If I scroll the mouse wheel, the window in the left hand 
 pane scrolls.
  
  I hit escape, click, ... tried everything and just cannot get it to 
  scroll the window my cursor is in.
  
  Any ideas or things to check for to track it down?
 
 It works fine for me, the window with the cursor (not the 
 mouse pointer) is scrolled.  I didn't try with the taglist 
 window, only with an ordinary file and one vertical split.  
 Perhaps it is related to the taglist plugin?


Under normal circumstances you are right it works fine.
But occassionally it gets into this state.
I had to reboot yesterday, but I am in this state again now.

If I close the taglist window, and then :vert sp, I get the same behaviour.
So it does not appear to be taglist related (I just usually have it open).

Is there any settings I should check for?
The only way I can scroll the right pane is with cursor keys or dragging the
slider.
Using the mouse wheel only ever scrolls the left pane regardless of where
the cursor is.

Dave

70f - Scroll wheel scrolls wrong window

[David Fishburn]

Though I cannot reproduce it, this has been happening to me throughout the
betas.

70f WinXP SP2

I have the Taglist window open (though I don't believe it is related).
So my window is split vertically.
My cursor is in normal mode in the right hand pane.
If I scroll the mouse wheel, the window in the left hand pane scrolls.

I hit escape, click, ... tried everything and just cannot get it to scroll
the window my cursor is in.

Any ideas or things to check for to track it down?

Thanks,
Dave

RE: Vim70f crash - omnicompletion

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Benji Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 12:48 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: Vim70f crash - omnicompletion
 
 On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:18:35AM -0400, David Fishburn wrote:
  
  I am using vim70f on WinXP SP2.
  
  function! sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()
  if pumvisible()
   exec normal! i\C-Y
call sqlcomplete#Map('column')
   call feedkeys(\C-X\C-O)
  endif
   return 
  Endfunction
  
  imap buffer c-right  C-R=sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()CR
  
  When the omni popup is visible, to get the current selected 
 item you 
  must press C-Y while in insert mode (and the list visible).  I am 
  trying to issue a C-Y from within my function.  All 
 attempts so far 
  have failed.  My latest attempt is this line:
   exec normal! i\C-Y
  
  As soon as the above line executes Vim crashes.
  
  So Bram, this is 2 things:
  1.  A bug report.
  2.  A question, how can I issue a C-Y from within a function 
  executing during an imap?
 
 1. I can confirm the crash, slightly simplified:
 
 fun! DIT()
   if pumvisible()
 execute normal! i\C-Y
   endif
   return 
 endfun
 
 imap c-right C-R=DIT()CR
 
 With the completion menu open, I type C-RightC-XC-O and 
 gvim crashes.  I get the same thing typing C-R=DIT()CR 
 instead of using the mapping.
 
 2. I think that what you want is something more along these lines:
 
 fun! DIT2()
   if pumvisible()
 return \C-Y
   else
 return 
   endif
 endfun
 
 imap F4 C-R=DIT2()CR

That will not work for me.
   exec normal! i\C-Y

Since the user can navigate through the entries in the list before pressing
C-Right, I need to get the currently selected item before I redisplay the
popup with different values (based on what was highlighted).

call sqlcomplete#Map('column')
   call feedkeys(\C-X\C-O)

So after a issue a C-Y on behalf of the user, I setup the SQL completion
plugin for the next step and trigger omni again using the new feedkeys()
function.  According to the docs feedkeys() will executes the keys once the
function completes.

So as I was typing this up I just realized I can code this as follows:
function! sqlcomplete#DrillIntoTable()
if pumvisible()
call sqlcomplete#Map('column')
call feedkeys(\C-Y\C-X\C-O)
else
exec normal! \C-Right
endif
return 
Endfunction

Since I technically do not need to hit the C-Y prior to calling into
sqlcomplete#Map.  So the code works as is, and avoids the crash.

But for future developers, I could see a need to be able to retrieve the
currently selected item in the popup, so the question stands although it is
moved way down my priority list.

Thanks for the response Benji, and leading me in the right direction.

Dave

Feedkeys() function is not highlighted

[David Fishburn]

Simple bug report.  When editing a .vim file and using the new feedkeys()
function with vim70f, the syntax highlighter flags it as an error.  Looks
like it hasn't been added to the list of known functions yet.

call feedkeys(\C-X\C-O)

Dave

RE: Making * search for strings

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: Suresh Govindachar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:00 AM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Making * search for strings
 
 
 Hello,
 
   By default, * searches for words:  /\stuff_below_cursor\
   but I would like it to search for strings:  /stuff_below_cursor
   One way is to use the following
 
 map * yiw:let @/[EMAIL PROTECTED]cr
 
   Is there a better way? (/yiw didn't work.)

I have the following in my vimrc:
 Courtesy of Michael Naumann, Jürgen Krämer
 Visually select text, then search for it
if version = 602
 Here are two enhanced versions of these mappings which use VIM 6.2's
 getregtype() function to determine whether the unnamed register
contains 
 a characterwise, linewise or blockwise selection. After the search has

 been executed, the register *and* its type can then be restored with 
 setreg(). 
vnoremap silent * :C-U
  \let old_reg=getreg('')bar
  \let old_regmode=getregtype('')cr
  \gvy/C-RC-R=substitute(substitute(
  \escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]' ), \n$, , ),
  \\n, '\\_[[:return:]]', g)crcr
  \:call setreg('', old_reg, old_regmode)cr
vnoremap silent # :C-U
  \let old_reg=getreg('')bar
  \let old_regmode=getregtype('')cr
  \gvy?C-RC-R=substitute(substitute(
  \escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]' ), \n$, , ),
  \\n, '\\_[[:return:]]', g)crcr
  \:call setreg('', old_reg, old_regmode)cr
endif

Basically, using visual mode, select whatever text you like and press * (or
# for reverse).  These use the same keys as *,# in normal mode, so they are
very easy to remember.  I use these maps all the time, very useful.

HTH,
Dave

Vim GUI repositioning itself - Windows / extended monitors

[David Fishburn]

Vim70F

I use WinXP SP2.
Windows has the ability to Extend your monitor on to another monitor.  So,
my laptop is plugged into an external monitor at work.  I then extend the
screen to fill the secondary monitor which gives me 1 logical monitor that
is 2 screens wide.

This seems to be a new behaviour / annoyance of Vim7.

Start Vim.
gvim -u NONE -U NONE --noplugin readme.txt

Move it to the extended monitor (nicely centered).
:set nocp
:set columns+=30

At this point, Vim will reposition itself to be in the main screens area, so
it will move from 1 monitor to the other.  I then have to drag it back again
(or use a mapping).

I originally thought this was a taglist.vim problem but Yegappan helped me
track it down to this.

The same thing will happen if I put Vim close to the right edge of my
monitor and issue the :set columns+=30, Vim will shift itself to stay within
the main monitor.

Many other programs seem to be extended monitor aware.  For example, if I
move Vim to the extended screen and double click on the title bar, it
maximizes correctly to fill the entire extended monitor.  It does not
maximize across both monitors.

Anyone have any ideas on this one, or someway to turn of this new change in
Vim7?

TIA,
Dave

Using pumvisible() - vim70f

[David Fishburn]

I want to write a conditional imap that will only be active when the OMNI
completion popup window is active.

I can't quite get this to work.

I have tried a few combinations of imaps:
imap buffer c-right
C-R=pumvisible()?\ltC-Y\ltC-\\ltC-O:call
sqlcomplete#Map('column')\ltCR\ltC-X\ltC-O\ltCR:CR
imap buffer c-right  C-R=pumvisible()?\ltC-YC-\C-O:call
sqlcomplete#Map('column')CRC-XC-O:CR
imap buffer c-right  if pumvisible()|C-YC-\C-O:call
sqlcomplete#Map('column')CRC-XC-O|endif

I can't use the if since that starts adding literal characters.
I found a post by Georg Dahn which indicated he was using the \lt, not
sure why, but I tried it as well.

Net result, nothing is working so far, the above either do nothing or result
in unexpected behaviour.

The imap I use (which works exactly as I want) when the popup is visible is:
imap buffer c-right  C-YC-\C-O:call
sqlcomplete#Map('column')CRC-XC-O

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Dave

Re: In-Time insertion of vertical text

[David . Fishburn]

You can do this in Vim.
Go to the cursor position where you want it shifted.
Press Ctrl-V (blockwise visual mode).
Move the cursor down a few lines.
So now you have a visual block 1 character wide and 3 lines down.
Press I (that is a capital I) to start insert mode.
Type as much as you want.
Press escape.
What ever you typed on the first line will be repated on each line and will 
shift the text right.
I use this to add and remove comments all the time.

HTH,
Dave

Sorry for the top post, no choice.




- Original Message -
From: Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04/21/2006 10:10 PM
To: vim@vim.org
Subject: In-Time insertion of vertical text

Hi,

 (sorry for that cryptical subject...English isn't my mother's
 tongue... :)

 There is one feature of certain editors (for example Emacs with
 cua.el loaded) I would die for:

 With Emacs+cua.el it is possible to mark a rectangular shape of text.
 Then, when text is entered and that rectangle is still highlighted
 the other text of that file jumps letter by letter to the right to
 make room for the newly entered text. This happens on by-character
 basis.

 (This is NO critc and NO looks how bad vim is compared to Emacs. I
 only need to describe the opposite to explain what I mean... !!! :)

 With vim I can mark a rectangle in block-visual mode, then enter text
 with I which appears in one line only, press ESC and then --
 after a short pause -- is copied into all marked colomns.

 Especially when it comes to handling of text based tables
 this live insertion feature is a good help.

 Is there anything like that in vim or is there any script available
 to do so ?

 Keep hacking!
 mcc

RE: Building Vim7 with Visual Studio 8

[David Fishburn]

 

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 1:38 PM
 To: David Fishburn
 Cc: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: Building Vim7 with Visual Studio 8
 
 
 David Fishburn wrote:
 
  Has anyone attempted to build Vim using Visual Studio 8?
 
 Yes, George Reilly has tried various configurations.
 
  New machine, trying to reduce the # of compilers I have to install.
  This could be a configuration issue.
 
 [...]
 
  Perl requested (version 58) - root dir is C:\Programs\perl
  Perl DLL will be loaded dynamically
 
 [...]
 
  -DDYNAMIC_PYTHON_DLL=\python24.dll\ -DFEAT_PERL -DDYNAMIC_PERL 
  -DDYNAMI C_PERL_DLL=\perl58.dll\ -DFEAT_BIG /Zi /Fd.\ObjGOLY/ /I 
  C:\Programs\perl\Lib\Core if_perl.c if_perl.c
  if_perl.xs(158) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 
 '__attribute__'
  if_perl.xs(158) : error C2059: syntax error : ';'
 
 Your problem appears to be with Perl, not with Vim.  You may 
 have a Perl for Unix and building Vim with MSVC doesn't work then.


Hmm, just the standard ActiveState install:

c:\programs\perl\binperl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 25 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

Binary build 817 [257965] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built Mar 20 2006 17:54:25



When I removed the Perl piece I did successfully build and compile Vim.  So
maybe the Perl code has to be updated for Visual Studio 8.

Dave

syntax omnicomplete and case sensitivity

[David Fishburn]

 -Original Message-
 From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Einspanjer
 Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:45 PM
 To: vim@vim.org
 Subject: Re: Getting omnicomplete to work with my SQL dialect syntax?
 
  David.Fishburn at sybase.com writes:
  In the meantime, for what you are attempting to do the 
 syntaxcomplete 
  plugin
 should fit your needs. 
  Just :source $VIMRUNTIME/autoload/syntaxcomplete.vim. 
  
  Please pass any feedback you have along.
 
 I just got around to trying that, but it specifically tests 
 to make sure that omnifunc hasn't already been set so that 
 didn't work.  Instead, I just explicitly setlocal 
 omnifunc=syntaxcomplete#Complete and syntaxcomplete.vim was 
 autoloaded properly and everything was fine (mostly :)
 
 The only thing I would like is if possible, could the 
 syntaxcomplete function detect the case of the string it is 
 completing and use a complimentary case?  I know it might be 
 a can of worms, but if I complete EXTRACT_ and it completes 
 as extract_value it feels a bit odd.
 
 Otherwise, it is working quite well, thanks for some 
 fantastic work there. :)

The 2.0 version of syntaxcomplete.vim will allow the user to choose whether
it should ignorecase when filtering objects.

By default, if ignorecase is set, so will the syntaxcomplete plugin.
You can override this by:

let g:omni_syntax_ignorecase = 0

So working in your case above:
 I complete EXTRACT_ 

In this case, it will not find any matches since extract_value is of the
wrong case.

I am not sure really how to go about matching case effectively, since you
could have had extract_value, Extract_value, Extract_Value and so on.

Dave