Hi!
I frequently copy and paste text from web pages and would like to break
lines at (say) 72 without splitting words.
It sounds strange, but I use to do the following:
:set noai nosi tw=72 fo
Then I copy the text of the web page to the clibboard, enter
Insert mode, and do C-R* to paste the
When I search and I have closed folds, vim will automatically open
the closed fold if next match is in the closed fold.
Is there setting to disable this auto-opening ? Not to open the closed
fold when searching ?
You may want to add
set foldopen-=search
to your vimrc file. Just read
:h
Hi!
There is an error: The function
function MakeSearchString(str)
return substitute(escape(@, '\\/.*$^~[]'), '\n', '\\n', 'g')
endfunction
should be
function MakeSearchString(str)
return substitute(escape(a:str, '\\/.*$^~[]'), '\n', '\\n', 'g')
endfunction
I have not seen this
Hi!
For example, I do often want to
replace a name in the text with another. What I used to do is
selecting it with mouse and type
:%s/ctrl-ins/newname/gc
Is there a way to do this with the mouse (and without retyping the name) ?
What I want is maybe something like 'invoking a yanked register
--- Jean-Rene David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In vim, delete always saves the deleted data
somewhere.
Don't forget the black hole register _
Thus, just do _x on the visual selection and
the selected text is deleted to nirvana.
Best wishes,
Georg
Hi!
--- Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using wikibooks.org sounds attractive, but I don't see any protection
against spamming. And that is exactly what happens to the Vim tips.
It's just a matter of time before this happens on wikibooks.org too.
WikiMedia, which is the software of
Jonas Persson wrote:
I'm lookning for the eqvivalent of C-RC-W (grab word under cursor)
for grabbing the current visual selection into the command line.
Any suggestions?
Well, I would yank the current visual selection with y, and in the
command line I would do C-R (where is the unnamed
I have a string that has lots of forward slashes. I need to search it
and delete it (e.g. unix path name). I could use a backslash for
everything forward slash and find it in vim. Is there a way I need not
do that? For now, I use 'grep -n' to get the line number and then delete
it. I don't
Hi!
There is a much easier way to to that: Just read
:h v_b_I
:h v_b_I_example
Best regards,
Georg
Eric Leenman wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to remap the up and down key to behave a bit different.
For example I have text like below
: b123
: d456
: g789
And then I want
and using i instead of c didn't work. Maybe someone has a better
solution.
Just use I instead of i.
Best wishes,
Georg
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Hi!
To get a more intuitive behaviour of movement through wrapped lines, I
added the following mapping:
inoremap down c-ogj
[...]
The bar stays for the cursor here.
Just try the following mappings:
Make cursor keys ignore wrapping
inoremap Down C-R=pumvisible() ? \ltDown : \ltC-OgjCR
Hi!
Mark Guzman wrote:
I hate to report problems w/o having solutions, but the svn repos is
currently only up to patch 132. I'm wondering if whatever update script
was maintaining it is broken... Hopefully someone with access can take a
look at it.
As far as I know, the SVN repository is kept
Hi!
--- Bill McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Motivated by the stunningly poor readability of highlighting
group Pmenu (white on magenta or light-magenta),
You are right, the defaults of this is awful. The same holds
for the highlights of Constant and Title. These color schemes
nearly hurt
Hi!
Bram Moolenaar wrote:
/ search for the Visually selected text forward
? same, backward
Is there a good alternative?
I think, this is ok. For the moment I have the following lines
in my vimrc file (I found the original code in a vim tip):
--- 8 ---
Search in Visual and
Hi!
--- Jeremy Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have set textwidth=80 and would like Vim to automatically break a
line (between words) when the line gets too big. However, this isn't
working, Vim doesn't seem to be doing anything different. Is there
some other option I need to set?
Just
Hi!
--- Jeremy Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, linebreak just *displays* a broken line, I want a *real* broken
line. I want Vim to insert EOLs for me. I thought that is what
textwidth would do.
Of course, you still have to set 'textwidth', too.
:set textwidth=80
:set linebreak
will
Stefan Karlsson wrote:
I was expectig the normal mode command d_ (without count) to delete from the
cursor position to the beginning of the line, but it seems to delete the
entire line, i.e. even words /after/ the cursor.
d0 in Normal mode does what you want to do.
Is this really the
Hi!
I forgot to mention, that my last build was version 7.0.101.
It is probably patch 7.0.104 which introduced this problem.
Best wishes,
Georg Dahn
Georg Dahn wrote:
Hi!
I have updated the sources of Vim from CVS (7.0.106) and tried
to compile Vim. The GUI version can be built, but I get
list (vim@vim.org) if they aren't much
more suited for IRC anyway.
Best wishes,
Georg Dahn
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Georg Dahn
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Hi!
Sometimes the completed text gets erased after hitting enter.
To reproduce:
1. vim -u NONE +'set nocp cot=menu,longest'
2. ifoobar;CRfoC-P;
3. the two lines should be the same now. press CR and the second
line then becomes fo.
I can reproduce this with gVim 7.0.50.
Best wishes,
Georg
Hi!
But why I do need a specialised command ?
That's no specialised command, but the syntax of y. You type y and then a
motion. $ moves to the end of the line.
Why does
y/$
y/[pattern] moves to the first occurance of the pattern. The cursor is
positioned on the first character
--- A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Formatting the paragraph without moving the cursor relative
to the text is possible but trickier: mark your place, format,
then go back:
:imap F5 C-Om'C-OgqapC-O``
or
:imap F5 Escm'gqap``a
If one accepts, that 'formatprg' and
Hi!
Or you might want to use
:1,$s/ /./
to replace all spaces by dots, then (immediately after)
u
for undo.
To replace _all_ spaces by dots, you should better use
:%s/ /./g
because your command replaces the first space character of each
line only. With 'g' at the end, all space
Hi!
--- Andre Massing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
probably a rather stupid question, but using german language makes it
impossible for me to choose (L)öschen (Delete) instead of [L]esen (Readonly)
by typing just l if there exists a swap-file from a chrashed session.
This is an error of the
I don't think any single colorscheme defines MatchParen.
I haven't seen any single colorscheme that define MatchParen.
Do they ?
Of the color schemes, which are in the distribution, only koehler
defines it. Of the others at vim.org, at least inkpot, xterm16,
and my own color scheme (moria)
I use dark backgrounds (and therefore a light coloured foreground colour).
As a consequence the new MatchParen highlight that is enabled
by default in vim 7 is unreadable/annoying.
I need to put the following in my ~/.vimrc to fix it:
highlight MatchParen ctermbg=blue guibg=blue
Shouldn't the
Hi!
There is another possibility:
Shift-Ins = paste
Ctrl-Ins = copy
Shift-Del = cut
These shortcuts work even without sourcing mswin.vim (BTW, I don't
recommend sourcing mswin.vim) and have the advantage that they work in
all Windows applications.
Best wishes,
Georg
Evan H. Carmi wrote:
Hi!
So, my question: is it somehow possible to be able to select the
last
character of a line when selecting from right-to-left while using
selection=exclusive?
This can be done by doing
:set virtualedit=onemore
which allows the cursor to move just past the end of the line. This
makes
Hi!
My guess is: notepad breaks at column 1024. In notepad the first two
lines of your file have exact 1024 characters. This could be a
notepad limitation.
Best wishes,
Georg
Baha-Eddine MOKADEM wrote:
Hi all,
I have a file which behaves differently whether edited with win32
Notepad and
Hi!
I'm wondering if there were any error messages prior to the ones you
included, especially ones complaining about not finding perl
directories or .h files. It looks like it might be failing in the
pass where it runs perl on if_perl.xs. It seems to be most concerned
about finding ExtUtils
Hi!
--- Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subversion is already working, Edward Fox takes care of that.
Yes, of course, I am getting the sources from there and it works very
fine.
I might be wrong, but as I understood it, Subversion is just a mirror
of CVS. That is, the developement of
Hi!
--- Salman Khilji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I highlight the entire line without these two
flaws? Basically I want, in a normal code-editing
window, the kind of highlighting that is used in the
quickfix mode.
Just upgrade to Vim 7.0 and do the following in commandline:
:set
Bram Moolenaar wrote:
David Fishburn wrote:
When you run the Vim uninstaller the following directories are missed during
the cleanup:
vim70g\autoload
vim70g\spell
Well, that's one of the why didn't anybody notice this before the
release problems... It's easy to fix.
Well, this is also one
Hi!
I tried several versions, starting with gvim -u NONE -N
and still don't see the problem. I have no idea what
could make it appear.
It would be interesting, what is common between Mikolaj Machowski and
me, since we both can see the problem. I am working on two computers
and this problem
Hi!
--- Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's mentioned at gq. Any other place it should be mentioned?
I would say, here:
:h fo-table
just scroll down to
-
With 't' and 'c' you can specify when Vim performs auto-wrapping:
value action ~
no automatic formatting (you can
Hi!
I tried, also on Windows XP, but I don't see the problem. I have no
idea why it happens for you. Must be something obscure. What
compiler did you use? Does it also show in the distributed Vim 7.0g?
That's interesting. I use the same compiler as you (at least that's what
I think),
Hi!
--- Eric Leenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On my WinXP machine in gvim 6.3.0 my mapping works
On my Linux machine it partly works.
One of the things that doesn't work is the windows behaviour.
Like CTRL-C, CTRL-V , CTRL-X, ect
Just add
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
Best wishes,
Georg
Hi!
Where do you find this vimtips.txt with 4 lines? I
only found one with 3543 lines.
http://www.vim.org/tips/tip_download.php?download=download
It contains a lot of empty lines, has a sice of a little
more then 1,2 MB, and has 40243 lines at the moment.
I tried another file but it
This behavior of C-N and C-P is not new, it was the same befor, too,
not only in Vim 7. It is not wise to change it and BTW, it is a good
behavior for most people.
My main point is: I don't want to select entry in the completion menu
by pressing CTRL-N or CTRL-P, instead, I want to input
Hi!
What system font size are you using? Right-click on a blank spot on
your desktop, Properties, Appearance, Font size. Do you have similar
problems with the tabbar on other Windows apps, such as the
aforementioned Display Properties dialog?
Because of the high resolution of my laptop
Hi!
Since I am working on a laptop with a 1400x1050 display, the fonts I am
using are rather large. That is, the menu font has a size of 11 pixel.
The problem is, that on inactive Guitabs, which use the size of the menu
as its text size, the text gets cut a little bit. The largest font size
Hi!
I am using Windows XP. I want to add, that this is more an esthetical
Problem than a functional. It is still readable, but the lower parts of
letters like g, p, j and braces are cut.
Best wishes,
Georg
Bram Moolenaar schrieb:
Georg Dahn wrote:
Since I am working on a laptop
Hi!
a[M:N] should _never_ produce errors because returning an empty (or
truncated) list for a[M:N] unambiguously conveys to the programmer
that M len(a) (or N len(a)).
In my opinion one has done something wrong if one wants to get a sublist
whith wrong bounds. That's why an error has to be
Hi!
if columns=128
set number
endif
if columns=128
set number
endif
should work
And else I want to map a key to switch this ooption manualy:
What can I do to make it work?
map F2 :set invnumberCR
Best wishes,
Georg
Hi!
Well, this problem is older, since Vim 6.4 behaved like that, too. If a
vertical split is created and guioptions contain L, a scrollbar is
added which makes the windows wider by the amount of the scrollbar. I
have removed the L from the guioptions and don't miss it.
Best wishes,
Georg
---
Hi!
What's your operating system?
Do you use GUI or console Vim?
Which version of vim?
Which color scheme?
Best wishes,
Georg
--- Milan Berta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I want to report a behavior that is pretty strange for me.
When there is a syntax highlighting on and VISUAL
Hi!
I think trying to get items from an empty list should produce an error
message.
IMHO it would be a serious error if no error were produced in this case.
Best wishes,
Georg
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Hi!
Handling N len(a) except when a happens to be 0 seems a bit
counterintuitive.
No: Let's assume, that you have an empty list a. Then M in a[M:N] is
always out of bounds, which should produce an error. Analogously, if a
is not empty, but M len(a), an error should be produced, too. (BTW,
Hi!
I wonder if anybody tried to build win32 native gvim
with mingw or/and cygwin (the native win32 gui vim).
Before I switched to the free MS compiler (I follow George Reilly's
instructions) I had built gVim and Vim with native MinGW. I have never
had any problems. IMHO building Vim with
Hi!
Vim choses the default colors of the syntax highlighting for gVim
depending of the value of background. If I add the lines
set background=dark
hi Normal guifg=#e0e0e0 guibg=#202020
I get the defaults for dark backgrounds. Unfortunately, the background
colors of cursorline and
Hi!
What does
:verbose hi Constant guifg=Maroon
show?
Nothing. But the Constants are Maroon afterwards.
In addition to the above sort of debugging, you can add a line like
let g:foo = 2006 April 16 background= . background
to your color scheme file. The date stamp is to avoid
Hi!
In the meantime I found another one: Could you please set MatchParen
differently, because with a dark background a light foreground and Cyan
don't fit. I suggest setting guifg to bg or Black.
How about using guibg=DarkCyan?
Looks OK to me, it is much better!
Best wishes,
Georg
Send
Hi!
In vim 7.0d02 I'm unable to see the '|' which usually surround tag in
vim's help file (e.g. around 'usr_01.txt' in the first help page opened
by ':helpCR').
This is not a bug, but a feature. The name of the highlight is 'Ignore'.
The foreground color highlight 'Ignore' is set to the
Sorry, but to be totally lost is something completely different, the
user just has to move the cursor. There are not many invisible
characters anyway.
Not that easy: if you are in the main help page you can have plenty of
invisible characters on the same column and then only moving right will
Hi!
my boss says that his editor is as least as good as mine and
he wants me to give up using Vim.
Which editor does he use? Emacs?
Sorry, I'm really bored of working together with developpers
who don't even know about regular expressions.
Oh, at least developers should know about regular
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