ctrl-c oddity with visual block insert
Since C-c is supposed to act like Esc in most circumstances, one would expect that pressing C-c to end Insert mode during a visual block insert would prepend the text to all selected lines. In fact, This was the behavior in versions of Vim prior to vim7. As it currently stands, pressing C-c will only insert the text on the first line of the visually selected block unless the user has at some point setup a C-c vmap. Example: vim -u NONE -N :insert foo bar baz . ggC-vjjIXXC-c This will only insert XX at the front of the first line. If we instead do the following, the XX will be inserted at the front of every line. vim -u NONE -N :vmap C-c nop :insert foo bar baz . ggC-vjjIXXC-c The presence of the C-c vmap isn't important. You can vunmap it immediately after. It's the mere act of defining a C-c vmap that causes C-c to act as expected. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [PATCH] cygwin: Trouble recognizing absolute path
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:38:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Interesting enough it works in 6.4 without doing anything similar to my patch does to os_unix.c. What's different in swap file handling between 6.4 and 7.0 so that it works in the former but doesn;t in the latter? memline.c was changed for 7.0 as far as how Vim determined where to store the swapfile when editing symlinks. The change was to follow the symlink, find the directory the actual file was in and key off that when creating the swapfile so that editing the symlink and the actual file at the same time would cause the 'swapfile already exists' message. Maybe this is related. The relevant code is sectioned off by '#ifdef HAVE_READLINK'/'#endif' sections in memline.c James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [PATCH] cygwin: Trouble recognizing absolute path
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 10:34:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Oct 13 16:06, James Vega wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:38:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: Interesting enough it works in 6.4 without doing anything similar to my patch does to os_unix.c. What's different in swap file handling between 6.4 and 7.0 so that it works in the former but doesn;t in the latter? memline.c was changed for 7.0 as far as how Vim determined where to store the swapfile when editing symlinks. The change was to follow the symlink, find the directory the actual file was in and key off that when creating the swapfile so that editing the symlink and the actual file at the same time would cause the 'swapfile already exists' message. Maybe this is related. The relevant code is sectioned off by '#ifdef HAVE_READLINK'/'#endif' sections in memline.c Thanks for this hint. I'll look into that in the next couple of days. It doesn't seem to be related to the actual directory in which to place the swap file, though. directory is set to /tmp in my example, so the swap file should be created there. I misspoke slightly in my previous email. The patch isn't purely about where to store the file. It primarily deals with determining what actual file is being edited so that proper swapfile checking can be performed. In order to do this it has to resolve the symlink and determines the absolute path for the file being edited. It may be that determining the absolute path is causing the mixup in path formats, although that seems unlikely since it is a common function used throughout Vim. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Invoke _gvimrc.vim / unexpected expansions
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:43:10AM +0200, jandl wrote: Dear colleagues, I have 2 problems with gvim 1/ when I start gvim in Windows XP (double click on icon), gvim opens without invoking the _gvimrc.vim. I have _gvimrc.vim located in c:\programs\vim. I have also tried to put _gvimrc.vim into c:\programs\vim\vim70 but it was not automatically started from there either. 2/ I am using gvim for edition my latex files and have the Latex-Suite as an add-in. That has generated some conflict: whenever I press a '.' I get 'C-R=SIDSmartDots()CR'. Here is my _gvimrc.vim: [snip] To use it, copy it to for Unix and OS/2: ~/.gvimrc for Amiga: s:.gvimrc for MS-DOS and Win32: $VIM\_gvimrc As your _gvimrc says, there should be no .vim extension on your _gvimrc (or _vimrc). :) That will fix 1). As for 2), you may have to edit the plugin to change that mapping so it doesn't override a normal Vim command. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Patch 7.0.048
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:48:31PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: --- 127,135 let nmt = s:tempname(nm) if rename(nm, nmt) == 0 if exists(b:gzip_comp_arg) ! call system(a:cmd . . b:gzip_comp_arg . ' . nmt . ') else ! call system(a:cmd . ' . nmt . ') If the filename itself has single quotes, this will prematurely end the quoting. escape(nmt, ') should probably be used as well. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Running python scripts from Vim
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:46:46PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: I have now tried several vim scripts for python to set up vim as a good python IDE. It has taken some time due to that not all scripts are well documented and there are some old buggy scripts that makes other scripts not work. But now it really starts to shape up :-) You might be interested in trying out PIDA (http://pida.berlios.de/). James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: vim server ? security hole?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 10:20:05AM +0200, Marc Weber wrote: I did notice that you can do su gvim :echo SERVERNAME and then using another user gvim --servername=GVIMxx --remote-send='!/dowhatyouwant ;-)' Thus: If you know your admin is using vim you can easily try to get one gvim instance to execute arbitrary commands as super user!! Performing a simple su saves the environment that you su'ed from. If you instead ran su -, I imagine this would not work. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: CTRL-S under WXP and Linux
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:09:58PM +, Eric Leenman wrote: Hi, I'm using VIM under WXP and under Linux. When I type :map it's both mapped as: v C-S * C-C:updateCR noC-S * :updateCR Why does my screen lock when I press CTRL-S under Linux? And is the only way to unlock it CTRL-Q under linux? That's because of the flow control capabilities terminals have. If you google for xoff xon, you'll find sites explaining what the flow control does. It's just something that you have to get used to when using *nixes. You may be able to disable it through the stty command. HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Sudden problem with: exe set listchars=tab:\xbb\xb7,trail:\xb7
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 02:29:49AM +0300, Yakov Lerner wrote: I always had this line in my vimrc: exe set listchars=tab:\xbb\xb7,trail:\xb7 (It is equivalent to set listchars=tab:»·,trail:·) Suddenly his line stopped working. (I didn't change it) It assigns now empty value to listchars: set listchars? listchars=tab:,trail: Command L=line :set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· stopped to work, too. It prints E474: Invalid argument: listchars=tab:»·,trail:· What can be causing this ? It sounds like you're running Vim in an environment that doesn't understand those characters. You'll probably want to check what 'encoding' is. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: why does this mapping interpret the literal and not work?
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:50:43AM -0700, Arias Hung wrote: When attempting to create a mapping for my muttng.vim file I add the following :nmap zz w!cr however it interprets it literally like: w!cr instead of interpreting the return cr. Anyone know why? You've made a normal mode mapping. You want to perform a command-line mode command, but you haven't entered command-line mode. Adding a : should fix your problem. :) :nmap zz :w!CR HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Irritating column numbers with encoding=utf-8
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 11:50:51AM +0200, Jürgen Krämer wrote: Hi, with 'encoding' set to utf-8 there is a quite confusing (to me) difference between the column number and my expectations (supported by the virtual column number) if there are non-ASCII characters on the line. Column number n is really the nth byte on that line. This is described at :help /\%c. This description should explain all the behavior you're seeing. This is the intended behavior and I'm not sure of a way off-hand to get the visual character count like you want. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Restore cursor to last line not working in Vim 7
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:26:36AM -0400, Kevin Old wrote: Anyone else experiencing this? Any ideas how to fix it? If Tim's suggestion does not solve the problem, I'd suggest checking if your system-wide vimrc has changed. The code snippet at :help last-position-jump may have previously been in the system-wide vimrc but was removed or replaced by a new vimrc. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: I just updated my Vim site
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:30:32PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: James Vega wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:10:21PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: Isn't there a cross-compiler for producing cygwin executables from Linux? There is a cross-compiler for producing Windows native executables. It's mingw and that was what I used to produce binaries of the vim7 pre-release before I found Tony's site. I'm not sure if it can be used to create cygwin executables. James MinGW runs on Windows with Unix-like tools, doesn't it? Yes, that's one use of MinGW, but there is also a linux-win32 cross-compiler. Your distribution may have packages. The MinGW wiki also has a HOWTO[0] for building the cross-compiler from their tools. James [0] http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/build%20a%20Win32%20x-compiler%20for%20Linux -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: I just updated my Vim site
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:58:56PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: James Vega wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:30:32PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: James Vega wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:10:21PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: Isn't there a cross-compiler for producing cygwin executables from Linux? There is a cross-compiler for producing Windows native executables. It's mingw and that was what I used to produce binaries of the vim7 pre-release before I found Tony's site. I'm not sure if it can be used to create cygwin executables. James MinGW runs on Windows with Unix-like tools, doesn't it? Yes, that's one use of MinGW, but there is also a linux-win32 cross-compiler. Your distribution may have packages. The MinGW wiki also has a HOWTO[0] for building the cross-compiler from their tools. James [0] http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/build%20a%20Win32%20x-compiler%20for%20Linux My distribution has lots of packages; but searching in yast2 among all (installed and uninstalled) packages for Name/Summary/Description Contains mingw (case-insensitive) gives: Null result. Similarly, rpm -qa |grep mingw (which IIUC searches only the names of installed packages) also gives nothing. I see that wiki but I'm not anymore enough of a guru to be certain that it will not clobber my installation of gcc for Linux. If it seems simple to you, why don't you do it yourself? I was more pointing this out for informational purposes instead of trying to push you to continue producing win32 versions of Vim. :) James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: display tweaks - tilde lines, statusline..
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:09:41AM -0400, cga2000 wrote: I think I should stick these doubtful customizations of mine in some separate file rather than modifying individual colorschemes. I've just tested: :set FoldColumn=2 :hi Foldcolumn ctermbg=black .. and it adds a 2-column margin to the left of my display and thought I could add these to my .vimrc but then this will be lost whenever I change colorscheme on the fly. As Tony mentioned, setting 'foldcolumn' can be done in your vimrc. The highlighting can also be done there by taking advantage of autocommands. :au ColorScheme * hi FoldColumn ctermbg=black This only works in vim7 though since that's when the ColorScheme event was introduced. It may also be better to set ctermbg=NONE in case you change which colorscheme you use in the future to one that does not have a black background. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Functions developed in 6.4, to be used in 7
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 12:53:02PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote: My questions: - can I list all functions that are currently available in an overview manner? If you're referring to Vim's builtin functions, :he functions will give you the list you're looking for. - has there anything changed significantly re. the function handling between 6 and 7? Not that I know of, but :he version7 should list any significant changes. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: detecting a readonly file and not doing something...
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:04:15AM -0400, Robert Hicks wrote: I currently have this: autocmd BufEnter * :%s/[ \t\r]\+$//e get rid of the pesky ^M However, it gives me an error I have to enter through when I open a readonly file. Something along the lines of autocmd BufEnter * :if ro | %s/[ \t\r]\+$//e | endif should do the trick. :help expr-option shows the different ways you can access options in expressions. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: detecting a readonly file and not doing something...
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:16:38AM -0400, James Vega wrote: On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:04:15AM -0400, Robert Hicks wrote: I currently have this: autocmd BufEnter * :%s/[ \t\r]\+$//e get rid of the pesky ^M However, it gives me an error I have to enter through when I open a readonly file. Something along the lines of autocmd BufEnter * :if ro | %s/[ \t\r]\+$//e | endif That should actually be autocmd BufEnter * :if !ro | %s/[ \t\r]\+$//e | endif since you want the replacement performed only when the buffer is not readonly. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Perl Support in Debian
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:02:35PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote: I'm hoping someone has a quick fix for this. I have installed vim-perl on Debian (from unstable) Debian Vim maintainer hat Please report bugs with our Vim package directly to us. This allows us to determine if it's a packaging problem which we need to deal with or an upstream problem which we can triage and report to Bram. The preferred method of reporting bugs is via reportbug: apt-get install reportbug reportbug vim-perl /Debian Vim maintainer hat but when I look at :ver I see that Perl is listed as -perl. As I understand it, I should see +perl. Is there a way to fix this at run-time, or do I have to compile this in? Thanks. Are you sure you're running vim.perl and not another one of the variants we provide? Try explicitly invoking vim.perl instead of vim. If that works, then there's probably another variant of Vim installed which is being pointed to by the alternatives system. You can see what alternatives are providing the vim binary via: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display vim HTH, James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: viminfo feature not working after upgrade from vim6.2-vim7.0
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:30:37PM +0530, Srinivas Rao. M wrote: Hi, When i upgraded my vim from vim6.2 to vim7.0, i am finding that the feature viminfo is not working. (Viminfo remembers last position in the file when we reopen file). I had set the viminfo option in my .vimrc file as. set viminfo='1000,f1,\500 Do i have to add any special options for vim7 ?. That feature isn't an option that's set, but an autocommand that is run. It was probably in your system-wide vimrc before you upgraded. You can add the code snippet at :help last-position-jump to your .vimrc to re-enable that behavior. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: weird issue with :put
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:11:49PM -0700, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: In a Vim7 session, after working for sometime, I started getting a weird error, when one of my plugins did the below: :put= This is the same as using: :put = Double quotes are Vim's comment character so you either need to use single quotes or escape the double quotes. and the error was: E121: Undefined variable: retVal E15: Invalid expression: retVal As noted in the help for :put, if nothing is specified after '=' then the previous expression is used. In this case, it appears that contained a variable that was no longer in scope. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [BUG] Swap file searched for in the wrong place
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:19:57PM -0500, Gautam Iyer wrote: Now when you type vim /tmp/bar it reports that a .swp file is found and asks you about recovery. However when you press R for recovering the file, vim complains saying it can not find the swap file (probably because vim looks for the swap file in /tmp, instead of in /tmp/foo). This appears to be fixed in vim7. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Vim 7.0 tablist question
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 06:49:44AM -0700, Jeff Lanzarotta wrote: Hello, Is there a way to list all the buffers on a tab-page? Not the windows, the actual buffers? tabpagebuflist() may be what you're looking for, but that doesn't mean the buffers aren't also displayed in another window/tab page. Buffer's aren't tied to any specific window or tab page. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: How can I detect the OS?
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:34:02PM +0300, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
Hello,
Is there a way to detect the OS on which Vim is running?
You can use has() and the list of features under :help feature-list to
determine what type of Vim (and therefore under which OS is running).
if has('win32')
... win32 specific stuff ...
endif
Search for version of Vim from the feature-list help topic and that
should bring you to the different versions for which you can check.
James
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Re: :for var in list
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:21:07PM -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hello! I know this is a late date, but I think it would be helpful if for var in list ... endfor would complete with var= . For example where this might come in handy: for home in split(rtp,',') if isdirectory(home) | break | endif endfor This seems like a rather arbitrary imposition. There could be legitimate reasons for var getting the value in a loop (such as looping over the results from matchlist()) which would be confused by adding an additional loop with var = . James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [vim 70d] switching tab pages
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:18:19AM +0200, Wojciech Pilorz wrote: 2006/4/13, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wojtek Pilorz wrote: I have build gvim 7.0d on Fedora Core 4 as 'Big version with GTK2 GUI.' I have noticed the following behaviour with multple tab pages (gvim); 1. You can switch with Ctrl-Pgup - Ctrl-PgDown when in normal mode; In insert and replace mode you need to type Ctrl-O Ctrl-Pgup/PgDown (perhaps should be documented?) It is documented. I could not find that, at least in tabpage.txt. And I do not think it is obvious. I find this no less obvious than not being able to switch windows or buffers while in insert mode. It's called insert mode for a reason. Beginners may be confused by this, but I think that's more because they usually haven't fully grasped the concept of Vim being a modal editor. James -- GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
