* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.05.29 05:15]:
> See, though I always do trim, I still suffered
> from those who do not trim and use
> bottom-posting.
I take it your mail program doesn't have a
"hide-quoted-text" function. Who says text-based
mail programs are primitive? :-)
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JR
* A.J.Mechelynck [2007.05.15 08:01]:
> If you had, as I already told you twice (this is
> the third one) done
>
> :set fileformats=
> :e ++ff=dos list02.p
> :w
>
> your file would have been repaired immediately.
> SO WHY DIDN'T YOU?
Or equivalently:
:e list02.p
GA " add ^M at
* Normandie Azucena [2007.05.09 09:30]:
> this will seem to be a dumb question.
> what is omni-completion?
> How can I use it in vim?
> How can I create my own?
Have you given
:h omni-completion
a try?
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JR
* Ben Kovitz [2007.04.19 20:00]:
> Is there a way to make filename completion
> (pressing tab at the command line in :find) use
> all the directories in the 'path'?
Not exactly what you ask, but here is a nice
little script I use quite a bit which you might
find helpful:
http://www.vim.org/script
* shawn bright [2007.04.18 12:45]:
> is there a way i can permanently set the font
> for gvim ? i can't find a config file for it.
:h 'guifont'
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* Eric Leenman [2007.04.17 04:15]:
> Is it possible to select the right word with
> another key then the enter-key, and thus staying
> on the same line before CTRL-N was pressed at
> all?
Yes, just continue typing...
See:
:h popupmenu-keys
It defines the only keys which are special in the
popup
* Gene Kwiecinski [2007.04.16 11:45]:
> Displays "^I" just fine, but trashes actual
> indentation, at least for me (dunno if there's
> any magical 'vim' setting, like ":set
> keepindent" or something).
set listchars+=tab:>-
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JR
* shawn bright [2007.04.15 20:15]:
> Hey there, i am looking for a command that will
> delete all whitespace up until the first
> character.
>
> for example
>
> []some_characters
> []some_characters.
:s/^\[\]\zs\s*//
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JR
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.04.12 10:30]:
> I can set the font in gvim using:
> Set guifont=
>
> But how do I do the same with console vim?
You change the console font. :-)
If you use cygwin I can tell you how I do it for
rxvt or xterm.
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JR
* alebo [2007.04.09 15:00]:
> 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?
If you delete less than one line, the data is
* Przemyslaw Gawronski [2007.04.09 09:45]:
> :argdo %s/\"//g | update
" is not special, so no need to quote it.
:argdo %s/"//g | update
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JR
* Tom Purl [2007.04.05 12:00]:
> > I need to do that quite often. They are usually
> > log files from a long running program in debug
> > mode.
>
> Actually, you can think of a log file as a sort
> of flat file database. Here's an example
I appreciate all the help but I really don't have
a probl
* Tom Purl [2007.04.05 10:30]:
> On Thu, April 5, 2007 2:38 am, ³Â·½ÈÙ wrote:
> > If I want to open one 1G bytes size
> > file,it's really slow.
I suggest splitting it into smaller chunks with
another tool.
> Just out of curiosity, why are you trying to
> edit a 1 GB file with any text ed
* Michael Klier [2007.04.04 17:30]:
> I am sure this has been questioned before but why is the
> "Reply-To:" header field not set via the mailing-list?
Short answer: because it makes it more difficult
to reply to the author without making it easier to
reply to the list.
Long answer:
http://www.un
* shawn bright [2007.04.02 12:00]:
> when i do a search like /text
> it highlights all of the matches and i can use n
> and N to navigate. how do i turn the
> highlighting off when i am done?
There's a command to do exactly that:
:nohlsearch
This will turn off highlighting for the current
sear
* shawn bright [2007.03.30 09:15]:
> I know that i can do 20Ctrl-E or Y to do 20 at a
> time, but thats kinda long, is there another way
> that might be cool, maybe map 20 lines down to
> some key i don't use much ?
Use the power of mappings!
:nmap 20
:nmap 20
I also often use H, M, L combined
* Eric Leenman [2007.03.30 06:45]:
> With the follwing subtitue it's possible to
> remove blocks of 3 empty lines
> :%s/^\n\{3}//
>
> How do you need to change it, so that it does
> remove blocks of 2, or more,
> empty lines?
:%s/^\n\{2,}//
> And how do you give this command just before
> closin
* oskar [2007.03.27 11:25]:
> I have a vim script which I want to use to
> search & replace a part out of a given line. The
> fields in the line are based on field length and
> the field I want to change starts at position 33
> and ends after 4 charachter.
Sample data and the result you expect wou
* Eddine [2007.03.27 09:45]:
> ENTRY
>
> 184
> 185
> **;
> 186 * PGMs Complexes 1 : enable - O : disable
> *;
> 187
> *
* Christophe Dupre [2007.03.27 07:15]:
> Here is what I get when I do copen.
>
> || ccsc main.c +FH +P +DC +LO +EA +STDOUT I+="..\Includes"
> || >>> Warning 201 "C:\Project\Test\OnlineMS\Firmware\Source\rs232.c"
> Line 48(1,1): Assignment inside relational expression
> || *** Error 12 "C:\Project\
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.23 19:45]:
> I was thinking that there should be a way to
> take the register lines and automatically turn
> them into an noremap (including adding the @ to
> start register playback). Has anyone perfected
> this?
If you want your mapping to follow the (possibly
changi
* Some user [2007.03.22 15:00]:
> RANT
> Though I don't really get the reason why every
> command is preceded by colon.
Not to nitpick, but commands themselves don't
really care about the colon. The colon is used to
*change mode*.
In normal mode, you can just type away your
commands wit
* Harald Kröll [2007.03.22 13:30]:
> Is there some function or script to count
> characters (letters without whitespaces) in vim?
One way is to use the 'substitute' command's
ability to tell you how many items it replaced. So
if you type:
:%s/\S/&/g
You will get a message saying how many non-bla
* Andreas Bakurov [2007.03.22 09:00]:
> I trying to find a way to quickly remove and add one line comments (//
> or /* */) to Java or C/C++ code.
> What is a effective "combo" to achieve this.
You could do this manually with mappings and such,
but I find there are so many special cases
(especially
* Dave Land [2007.03.22 08:15]:
> " Command-[ and Command-] put the prev/next match at top of screen
> map kNz " put prev match at top of screen
> map jnz " put next match at top of screen
Very recently on the list someone suggested these
very simple and elegant mappings:
nnoremap n nzz
nnorema
* Bram Moolenaar [2007.03.20 11:45]:
> > How many times did I repeat a command just because
> > I had pressed one time too many...
>
> You can type "g<" to go back to the messages.
Thanks! Didn't know about that.
Reading the help, this only brings back the last
viewed page of messages though. N
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.19 22:30]:
> The more frustrating thing is: if I continuously
> scroll down in the 'more-prompt' mode, the
> 'more-prompt' will eventually quits the display
> and the message are disappeared forever, so I
> must be careful NOT to press any key when the
> last line of me
* Peng Yu [2007.03.16 16:30]:
> Can somebody let me know how to show the current
> value of "path"?
:set path?
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JR
* Peng Yu [2007.03.13 12:15]:
> Suppose I have horizontal splited window1 and
> window2, is there any way to change them into
> vertical split and vice versa?
CTRL-W H
CTRL-W J
Note the capital "H" and "J".
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JR
* Albie Janse van Rensburg [2007.03.13 10:00]:
> You are looking for %. In order to enable the
> use of it, you need to enable the matchit
> plugin. See :help matchit
matchit is an external plugin.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=39
--
JR
* Simon Jackson [2007.03.12 01:30]:
> when i have text selected in visual mode, i type 'y' and instead of
> yanking the text it overwrites it. anyone know why?
Maybe it's been mapped to something else.
What does:
:verbose vmap y
say?
Does the overwriting text give a clue to where it
came from?
* Afton Lewis [2007.03.02 13:30]:
> How would I search for a regex within a particular area?
Once the text is selected visually, you could do:
:g/regex/#
which will appear as
:'<,'>g/regex/#
This will display all matching lines with line
numbers prepended.
Not as sophisticated as the other s
* Bin Chen [2007.03.02 09:45]:
> If I am in line 100, now I want to search a key
> which will lead me to wherever. I want to back
> to the place before the seach, can vim support
> anchor for me to back?
If I understand your question, CTRL-O will do what
you want.
:h CTRL-O
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JR
* Eric Leenman [2007.03.01 13:30]:
> >How were you planning to use those?
>
> I want to use these as cut, paste and copy iso
> CTRL-X, V and C.
Cutting and copying are compound operations in the
sense that you need to specify /what/ they are
going to act on. There are many ways to do this,
dependi
* Eric Leenman [2007.02.28 08:00]:
> Is it possible to map the - and + and * keys on
> the "nummerical section of a keyboard" (in other
> words the keys in the group where the num-lock
> key is also)
That part of the keyboard is sometimes referred to
as the "keypad". You can refer to those keys in
* Peter Michaux [2007.02.26 22:00]:
> Does vim have the concept of a project of files?
You might want to look at this:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=69
Found by searching vim.org with the keyword
'project'.
HTH,
--
JR
* Peng Yu [2007.02.22 16:15]:
> I read the help. But I still don't see how to search in all the *.h
> and *.cc in a certain directory. Do I have to rely on the external
> command "find"?
It would help if you told us what version of vim
you use and what you tried.
If you have vim 7, you can use:
* Peng Yu [2007.02.22 11:15]:
> I have a C++ project in some dir say "project"
> or its subdir. Although I can use find and grep
> outside vim to search for any word in "project".
> But this is not very convenient.
Well you can use an external grep from within vim.
One advantage is that it's relat
* Muddassirali Mirzani [2007.02.21 07:30]:
> Is there a way to display only the lines that match
> a search pattern and hide/fold others.
The foldutil plugin makes that very easy. I use it
quite a bit.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=158
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JR
* Gene Kwiecinski [2007.02.13 17:00]:
> [...]
> I never liked ":wq", because you gotta do
>
> depress
> <:>
> release
>
>
>
For most actions in vim, I too often look for the
very fastest, fewest-keystrokes way. However
quitting is not one of them.
I agree
* Naim Far [2007.02.13 07:54]:
> When using diffsplit I have to supply the full
> path of the second comparison file, what if I
> simply want the comparison to be done with
> another already opened buffer?!
I usually do this in two phases. First setup the
vertical split, then use:
:windo
* Mueller Stefan [2007.01.30 07:56]:
> How can I delete a control line feed in a string
:s/\\n//
Should do what you want. Insert range as
appropriate.
Or
:let value = substitute(string, "n","","g")
:h substitute()
Discusses this specific case.
HTH,
--
JR
* neolistic [2007.01.23 10:15]:
> * Jean-Rene David-2 wrote:
> > See here for a possible solution:
> >
> > http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/index.php?subject=faq&title=FAQ#faq-e-acute
>
> I think this solution can work but I don't have
> the perms for the pl
* neolistic [2007.01.23 09:15]:
> I use the tex-suite with VIM7.0 and it's very useful but tex-suite have a
> auto-defined insert-map for the key é and I don't want to use this map, I
> want that when I'm in insert mode and I press the key é, vim insert the
> character é
This is probably the most
* DervishD [2007.01.12 07:45]:
> * A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> > [...]
> > Beware of ' and ` though: they are used in
> > Normal mode for "mark" movements.
>
> Yes, but both keys do the same, so I'm on
> the safe side if I choose only one of them,
> am I wrong?
They are similar
* Samuel Wright [2007.01.11 06:15]:
> I have a todo list of single line entries.
> I'd like to fold everything away apart from a custom seach, say
>
> :customsearch urgent
>
> would fold away all lines that did not contain urgent.
>
> Has this been done already in some way?
Yes.
http://www.vim
* Silva, Paulo [2007.01.08 11:30]:
> I'm trying to do a replace in a selection.
> After selecting the area, with v, directional keys, v again (or not -
> both give the same result).
>
> Then I type
> :%s/\%V20/21/
Don't know why it doesn't work on your end. Works
here. In any case, to do what you
* Chuck Mason [2006.12.13 17:15]:
> In :help it follows links
> (Maybe there's a helptags file?).
Bingo.
:h helptags
> [...]
> For instance I have a line that looks like:
>
> ... sometext somenumber1 someothertext2
>
> And if the user presses anywhere on the line I would like to take
> somen
* Lev Lvovsky [2006.12.05 13:53]:
> how can I align text under and after the cursor
> position to a specific column number?
:.,$s/^\s*/ /g
will align the first non-blank on the fourth
column, from the cursor's line to the end of the
file.
> and probably just as important, how can I
> find
* DervishD [2006.11.27 12:45]:
> Well, I've done this mapping to be able to jump to the next "tag"
> in the help file using :
>
> :nnoremap/\|\S\+\|:nohll
>
> The problem is that when I hit , the "tags" flash a bit,
> because the search command highlight them and the ":nohl" turns
* Samuel Wright [2006.11.27 11:15]:
> The regular expression works if I call it
> directly, but when I write
>
> :function FixJHIndex
>
> it just echoes the function definition. What am
> I missing?
:function does exactly as documented.
You want:
:call FixJHIndex()
See
:h :call
:h :function
* atstake atstake [2006.11.26 20:45]:
[...]
> eg. if it's a .pl file it would do "perl
> filename", show the result and if there's any
> error it would take me to the line where the
> error is.
>
> Is there any easy way to do this with functions?
> Any example would be greatly appreciated.
To cha
* Meino Christian Cramer [2006.11.23 02:45]:
> I want to search a longer string totally
> literally...regexp totally switched of, no
> exceptions.
function! LiteralSearch(string) range
let l:pattern = escape(a:string, '\\/.*$^~[]')
let @/ = l:pattern
normal n
endfunction
:command -nar
* mark [2006.11.15 16:00]:
> I want to change the order off these three
>
> 1=red
> 2=blue
> 3=orange
>
> into
>
> 3=orange
> 2=blue
> 1=red
>
> Suggestions ?
You don't specify the overall structure of the
file, but if these 3 lines are separated by blank
lines (say), and unless you need the i
Is there any way to search for text in open folds
only? For example, if fold 1 and fold 2 below are
closed and fold 3 is open, and placing the cursor
on the line which says "Start search here", I
would like to end up on the "foo" in fold 3 when
typing "/foo".
Start search here
{{{
fold1
foo
* Tim Chase [2006.11.09 17:30]:
> :map :let @/='~'
Using :match also works, and doesn't modify @/.
:match Search '~'
Note that this gives a warning if no previous
replacement string exists.
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JR
* Gary Johnson [2006.11.04 18:30]:
> When you open file A, then open file B, then
> want to go back to A, you don't do so by
> quitting B--you explicitly open A.
Looking at it that way, it makes good sense.
Thanks again for all the suggestions.
--
JR
* Yegappan Lakshmanan [2006.11.04 13:00]:
> You can try using CTRL-^ to jump to the alternate buffer.
Good idea.
Most suggestions were useful, BTW, thanks all.
> This looks like a bug in netrw.
Well personally I find not having a "quit" or
"exit" function pretty close to a bug. But there
are so
Say I open vim7's new super duper file explorer
"netrw" to browse some local directory. Say then I
decide I don't want to open any new file and just
want to go back to what I was doing. What would be
the standard way to do that?
I can use to eventually land up where I was
but I need to backtrack
* victor NOAGBODJI [2006.11.02 11:45]:
> Just looking for something like that in gvim.
> Do you know something like that?
Searching for "project" on www.vim.org yields many
hits.
I use the "project" plugin. I like it, despite
some warts.
--
JR
* Yakov Lerner [2006.10.23 07:00]:
> If you look at lines 879-884 of the left pane,
> and lines 1583-1588 of the right pane you can
> see blue "signs" near line numbers. What do they
> signify ?
They mean those lines are an open diff fold.
> I just did "vimdiff" and no special options.
> What d
* Jeff Lanzarotta [2006.10.19 13:13]:
> If there a way to check and see if the listchar
> is actually set or not?
For options I change often, I use the following to
display its value in the statusline.
function! OptSet(opt, string)
if(exists("a:opt") && expand(a:opt))
return a:string
* A.J.Mechelynck [2006.10.18 23:30]:
> "Reply to Sender" is meant to reply only to the author of an email.
>
> "Reply to All" is meant to reply to the author and all other recipients.
"Reply to All" usually results in the author
receiving duplicates. However since most mailers
offer nothing but t
* David Fishburn [2006.10.18 22:00]:
> " 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
>
* Naim Far [2006.10.18 13:00]:
> Does any body know a way of automatically going
> from header file to its implementation file?!
> and vice versa?!
a.vim : Alternate Files quickly (.c --> .h etc)
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=31
--
JR
* Robert Cussons [2006.10.18 09:29]:
> Everything seems to work fine now, except the
> searched for items aren't highlighted like they
> normally are when I search
Whether or not search items are highlighted
depends on the value of the 'hlsearch' option.
The search item gets highlighted on my end
* Benji Fisher [2006.10.18 09:15]:
> I try to avoid such problems by not including raw CR, ESC, etc.
> characters in my vim scripts. I suggest replacing the two :execute
> lines with
> execute "normal ?" . l:pattern . "\"
> and
> execute "normal /" . l:pattern . "\"
I was looking f
* Robert Cussons [2006.10.18 06:30]:
> I did notice that between the if and else there
> are " which just act as comments as they are on
> newlines,
Sorry, I should have known that wouldn't come out
right. There's a literal newline between the
quotes. You can enter it by pressing
.
Here's that se
* Lev Lvovsky [2006.10.17 17:15]:
> 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?
You already got lots of good answers. Here's
another o
* Ivan Vecerina [2006.10.03 12:15]:
> [...]
> Best case, I can type: lv
> [...]
> Is there an easy way to do so ?
According to
:h i_esc
there is not builtin way to do this. But you could
use a mapping:
imap lv
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JR
* Russell Bateman [2006.09.08 15:30]:
> You see that pretty well anything you can do on
> the ex command line in Vim (:set ignorecase,
> etc.), you can put in these modelines.
That's not true. You can only set options.
Excerpt from :help modeline:
No other commands than "set" are supported,
I've been using the Project plugin for many years
now and I like it a lot. However one problem keeps
bugging me.
I would like to share my ~/.vimprojects file
between my cygwin and windows version of vim.
The problem is the paths for the project. When I
enter a posix path, the windows version does
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