the same amount of effort. For a group, bottom posting keeps
everyone on track. And if done well, individual posts can stand alone
in an archive without a peruser having to go paging through a whole
thread.
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Is there a way to re-trigger the read/execution of modelines? My
autocommands are overriding my modelines but I want the reverse.
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at least change the menu item names to the exact
command being executed barring the option to customize these?
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On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:04 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
The current right-click menu on GUI tabs is hardcodedCould we
at least change the menu item names to the exact command being
executed barring the option to customize these?
When using GUI-style tabs (in the GUI
bringing Vim to a
complete halt!
Sound like the age-old and infamous TCL with Cygwin problem:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/78505
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/78506 (solution)
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expandtab in all buffers. (Cream's Tab
Expansion option is per buffer for temporary on/off.) If you don't
like the text wrapping at your Wrap Width, just set it to something
high like .
I'll make a ToDo for the errant menu indication.
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:: Cream
[Apologies, I just realized this message was to the Vim list.]
Barnaby, Cream uses a separate lists:
http://cream.sourceforge.net/about.html
We try to avoid using Vim bandwidth on Cream configuration.
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 08:15 -0400, Steve Hall wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 19:43 -0700
From: Panos Laganakos, Wed, March 21, 2007 9:16 am
Is this version compiled with +python/dyn or +python?
If so, is it python 2.4 or 2.5?
See the notes for the file:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=495061group_id=43866
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do is to
occasionally delete the whole set and re-download, but with the new
spelling dictionaries, this is 200+ MB each time and I hate to waste
the bandwidth. Suggestions?
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On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 13:47 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[...]
These are the filenames, folding brackets and all!
This is an example of not following the directions, which state: you
need a new vimball plugin!
Somebody needs to communicate
, including it's preference file?
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the - command or putting the cursor over
the ../ and hitting return does anything anymore. Any ideas?
Thanks.
I can second this.
What does
:echo g:loaded_netrw
say? Can anyone else on Windows with v107 from a non-Cream installer
confirm this?
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executable
simply to unpackage TEXT FILES!
Age-old formats like tar.gz or .zip are still around precisely because
they allow user control--simple inspection and evalutation without
potentially modifying system files.
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On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:33 +0100, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
Unfortunately these appear distributed in vimball format only.
The vimball format is actually a text format.
No, vimball is an amalgamation of text files, but it is NOT intended
to be edited in situ like a text
, and ESPECIALLY with an
extension like .vba!)
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://cream.cvs.sourceforge.net/cream/misc/gvim.nsi?view=markup
it is doing a lot more than a zip file could ever do. (And, to my
original point, needs to do.)
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on the same page).
I agree, is there any way the porting process can push comments to
each tip's respective discussion tab?
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From: A.J.Mechelynck, Thu, February 22, 2007 4:08 pm
Steve Hall has taken up the flame: his Vim-without-Cream
distributions for W32, which are reasonably up-to-date (currently
7.0.191) can be found at
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721
Hmm?
/me
into this: ¿
Is there an easy way around this?
It could just be a font issue, make sure your gvim font supports
non-ASCII characters. (I find Courier New or Andale Mono provide
extensive support.)
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From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 12:54 pm
Steve Hall wrote:
From: ben lieb, Fri, February 09, 2007 11:58 am
I often have to paste from Word for Windows into vim/gvim
(cygwin). Some characters don't transfer properly.
It could just be a font issue, make sure your gvim font
delete half your hard drive.)
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.
In my experience, gVim (the GUI version) and a corresponding True Type
fonts such as Andale Mono, Courier New, Monospace, Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono, or Luxi Mono render many more glyphs than can be accomplished in
a terminal.
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fred) it shows the menu read only, edit anyway
etc then seizes.
The correct name of vimrc on Windows is _vimrc. A file with a
preceding dot is actually not a permitted file name on Windows.
(Although there are ways of getting one on the system.)
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it into the installer and the side
effects have been negligible to date (in 3-4 years?). Patches welcome.
:)
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me? Recommendations?
I've found the online help much better than any third-party manual. If
you read:
:help usr_41
:help eval
:help options
you are 90% the way there.
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sort it out.
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On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 05:34 +0100, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
Has anyone here experienced font errors in gVim lately related to
the system font Fixedsys? I have three separate users with
relatively new Windows installations that get an error with:
set background=light
in os_mswin.c, just wondering if
perhaps MICROS~1 has recently changed XP to not included it by default
in some situations?
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download Vim 7.0.262 ? :)
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://cream.cvs.sourceforge.net/cream/cream/cream-columns.vim?view=markup
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of visual white space temporarily, do something, and then
reset it back to what I had. Is there a way to do this?
I wrote a plugin that toggles invisible characters with F4:
http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=363
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I'm having a mental block, how can I wrap a string via substitute() ?
I've been trying something like:
let str = 123456789012345678901234567890
let str = substitute(str, '\n\([[:print:]]\{-10,}\)', '\n\1\n', '')
echo str
to produce:
1234567890
1234567890
1234567890
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is a work-around, but I'm trying to write a
more generic substitution for wrapping.
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regarding this binary (in 468 downloads), and it was created
on a heavily fortified machine that reports nothing either.
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From: Greg Dunn, Thu, October 05, 2006 9:36 am
On 10/4/06, Steve Hall wrote:
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:04 +1000, Robbie Gates wrote:
i was having problems with gvim hanging when i tried to edit my
vimrc. After a bit of sleuthing, i tracked it down to has(tcl)
hanging (called from
From: Greg Dunn, Thu, October 05, 2006 9:36 am
On 10/4/06, Steve Hall wrote:
On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 10:04 +1000, Robbie Gates wrote:
i was having problems with gvim hanging when i tried to edit my
vimrc. After a bit of sleuthing, i tracked it down to has(tcl)
hanging (called from
to discuss the Cream configuration further.
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is not corrupt
2. Test the binary:
:echo has(tcl)
Greg, do you have Cygwin installed?
Interesting that this just cropped up twice in two hours, these
packages have been downloaded nearly 300 times over 8 days.
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from same site (and
used 7.0.110 daily prior). Do you see anything more if you prepend
:debug to that last command?
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is not corrupt
2. Test the binary:
:echo has(tcl)
Greg, do you have Cygwin installed?
Interesting that this just cropped up twice in two hours, these
packages have been downloaded nearly 300 times over 8 days.
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:help linebreak documents that it is not used when...'list' is on
but this means that toggling list shifts the text. I noticed this is
on the ToDo:
7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Is this a difficult fix?
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:
http://towo.net/mined/mined-uni.png
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On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 23:36 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
:help linebreak documents that it is not used when...'list' is
on but this means that toggling list shifts the text. I noticed
this is on the ToDo:
7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 01:14 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
Does anyone here know if Vim respects the following Unicode
characters (represents them rather than just indicating literals):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Unicode
I'm not on a Unicode platform
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:41 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 00:31 +0200, Michael Schaap wrote:
I beg you, please don't hardcode Courier New!
[snip]
It's not just the proper way, it's the first thing discussed in the
specification:
http://www.w3
consciously chosen to change their monospaced font
(and people on non-Windows platforms) will not see Courier New.
It's not just the proper way, it's the first thing discussed in the
specification:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-specification
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-s change.vim %1
copy %1 lpt1
Note that I usually sprinkle double quotes liberally to avoid issues
with spaces in paths.
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this:
/*
* ?:syntax on
*/
It would have to always always be commented obviously, and the '?:'
would trigger reading those lines as vim options.
You want to use modelines:
:help auto-setting
:help modeline
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://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vim_Tipbook
(Note the name change to avoid conflict with Steve Oualline's work.)
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file, pick that and Windows will
show them too you to select for an extention.
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it to the current.
The current Tips is terribly burdened by typos and obsolete pages, I
think a Wiki would be a good way to fix the current problems.
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From: Bill McCarthy, Jul 21, 2006 2:14 PM
I clear the last search pattern often enough that I use a
mapping:
map leader\ :let @/=barecho Search pattern clearedcr
Which does the same as:
:noh
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to the
Zenburn color scheme stored in the Cream CVS repository.
Really, the only two tricks are using Netrw to read the file, and then
saving it with a name so that you can source it.
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:: Cream... something good to put in your Vim!
:: http
above will always display our latest
build. For reference, this is also linked from the Cream download
page.
Please direct all comments about this installer directly to me, no one
else bears any responsibility for it.
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On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 00:27 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
I just noticed four broken runtime files in ftp.vim.org:
runtime/filetype.vim
runtime/autoload/paste.vim
runtime/plugin/netrwPlugin.vim
runtime/plugin/vimballPlugin.vim
Each has a few stray
From: A.J.Mechelynck, Jun 20, 2006 11:24 PM
Steve Hall wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 01:50 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Which tabline menu?
[snip]
do you mind the context menu which opens when right-clicking
the GUI-style tabline?
Sorry, I should have re-stated. I
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 07:38 -0700, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
On 6/20/06, Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't figure out how to turn off or customize the tabline menu.
The items in the tabline menu are hard-coded in the Vim source code.
You cannot add or remove items from
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 09:38 -0600, Eric Arnold wrote:
On 6/20/06, Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 07:38 -0700, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote:
On 6/20/06, Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't figure out how to turn off or customize the tabline
menu
line).
Yegappan explained the reason, and I'm not able to hack a work around
its actions muddling my every-buffer-in-a-tab configuration maintained
by autocmds.
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SNR73_NetRead..SNR73_NetGetFile:
line 78:
E484: Can't open file /tmp/v454568/0
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('amatch'))
I was just getting ready to write this feature until I saw it in the
help, but I can't get either to work. (And don't even grep the first
in any runtime file.)
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to a hardware changeover that is now in the past, and we can now
do the whole patch/build with a single command. Once we script the
upload and page reference updates, the whole thing will be croned
nightly.
I'd do the same with GNU/Linux, but I haven't figured RPMS yet. :)
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.
And the open bugs and feature request list is shipped with every
version:
:help todo
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From: Charles E Campbell Jr, May 25, 2006 9:52 AM
Steve Hall wrote:
Just assume all paths are Windows-hostile unless passed through
such a wrapper. (I never see these errors on *nix, so I assume
it's path related.)
I'll try it! The unfortunate part is, I can't test it. Or rather, I
needed.
You guys are both old pros, but I've been bushwhacked by this one so
many times I figured I'd encourage you to take one more gander.
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with just these two pages:
:help options.txt
:help eval.txt
A couple of miles of scripts later, I still find these answer 90% of
what I need, or link directly to it.
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On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 00:21 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
My personal experience was starting with just these two pages:
:help options.txt
:help eval.txt
the two largest, excluding those which merely list changes between
versions. Not easy to read from A to Z at one
''
endif
endfunction
set guitablabel=%{TabpageName(2)}%{TabpageState()}
Change the argument in the TabpageName() call to 1 for full paths.
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(tabpagenr('$'))
...
endfor
endfunction
The runtime condition is fine, earlier versions avoid the problem.
I know I can avoid it by silencing :source call but I'd rather not do
that if there's some other trick.
Thanks.
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:: Cream
From: Yegappan Lakshmanan, May 17, 2006 5:01 PM
On 5/17/06, Steve Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to construct the code below to avoid the E193
:endfunction not inside a function error in Vim 6.4 when loading
a Vim 7.0 script?
[snip]
What about doing the following
the
effort to keep each developer's patch in sync with the current Vim
version a huge headache.
Besides, Bram is a world class coder and designer. If a patch is
decent code and fits the long-stated Vim philosophy (:help
design-goals), it will get included. Testing is our job. :)
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On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:22 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
Is there a way to avoid the Press ENTER or type command to
continue when requesting spelling suggestions from a :normal z=
call in a function?
I'm not able to make any of the usual tricks (shm, raising
Is there a way to avoid the Press ENTER or type command to continue
when requesting spelling suggestions from a :normal z= call in a
function?
I'm not able to make any of the usual tricks (shm, raising the
command height) work, and this statement blocks user input.
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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 22:15 -0400, Benji Fisher wrote:
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:31:47PM -0400, Steve Hall wrote:
Yes, the bug is in printencoding. With gvim -u NONE -U NONE,
these lines produce the error:
:let printencoding = encoding
:hardcopy
This is with the default
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 08:39 -0400, Benji Fisher wrote:
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:19:01PM -0400, Steve Hall wrote:
In every beta of gVim I've tried on Linux/GTK2 (through 70g) I get
the following error with :hardcopy :
E673: Incompatible multi-byte encoding and character set
-mouse_jsbterm -mzscheme
-osfiletype -sniff -sun_workshop -tag_any_white -tcl -xfontset
-xterm_save
The runtime is soley the directory in the vim-7.0g.tar.bz tarball.
What am I doing wrong?
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in compiled features to the other packages we've built,
described on http://cream.sourceforge.net/vim.html.
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From: Robert Hicks, Apr 19, 2006 3:46 PM
Steve Hall wrote:
I have made available a Windows installer for Vim 7.0e (beta):
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cream/gvim-7-0e-beta-0.exe?download
This contains only English language files, you'll need to download
and manually install
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 12:40 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
I'm seeing a gVim 7.0d (GTK2) bug in refreshing the GUI tab
bar. When a guitablabel is set by autocmd (VimEnter, BufEnter,
etc), the results aren't actually shown until the Vim window
is refreshed
seems to be testing fine, too.
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On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 13:03 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Steve Hall wrote:
I'm seeing a gVim 7.0d (GTK2) bug in refreshing the GUI tab bar.
When a guitablabel is set by autocmd (VimEnter, BufEnter, etc),
the results aren't actually shown until the Vim window is
refreshed
is to hack a loop closing and
then :tabedit each. But this has the horrid result of Vim having to
save, close, and re-open each file--when all the user wanted to do is
menu the existing buffers across the tab bar. All edits, save state,
marks, etc. should be preserved.
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