Legal way to inhibt saveing of a buffer
Hi, I want to hook a function into the saveing process of a file. This function will test certain conditions and according to the result should make saveing of the file impossible for the moment. I want to avoid things like false error messages like File is set readonly. Is there a way to accomplish this ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Keep vimmering! :) mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Really stupid question...
Hi, I may become blinded by to often looking for too long onto my monitor, but... I am trying to write a simple function, which searches through the whole buffer to fund a certain pattern and stops searching when found the first match. I also want the function to return a matched/not matched return code and given the caller the line/column of the match if found. But all I are errors... Thank you very much for any helpful hint... Slightly frustrated, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Blocking of save
Hi, is there a way to disabling the saveing and writing of/to a file and leaving of vim until a certain condition of the contents of the file is not given (in this case certain characters are not allowed as contents of the file)? The whole thing should only be active for a C-/C++-Files. Thanks a lot for any help in advance! Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
...to shoot into oneelse feet...
Hi, is it possible to get out of a started change command (dont know, whether this is this the correct naming...) with a single key pressed ? For example the text is Vim is a #eally$nice editor. # is marking my cursor position and $ is the sign appearing after I have submitted cfn already. Since vim is really a nice editor, I do not want to change anything and pressed cfn by accident. HmmmESC kills everything between # and $... u would undo it...but this like do the wrong thing and repair it afterwards. What I want is to prevent doing wrong things by aborting them,..not to do them and saying ooops sorry...my fault afterwards and starting repairing the desaster then... :) Sohow can I _abort_ this ? Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
...curiosity
Hi, I am curious whether this kind of meta-regexp is possible with vim: I want to match a certain kind of pattern and want to do something with it. The kind of pattern does not describe a group of chars but their relation to each other. Example: I want to search for a number sequence like 1221 and also 2332 and also 3443 and also Or: I want to find a sequence of five identical characters. The character itsself doesn't matter. There is no limit to complexity of this kind of pattern. The only limit seems to be my brain. Is there a kind of general recipe to construct such patterns and to instruct vim to use them as wanted ? Happy editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Avoiding German Umlauts....
Hi, I want to write a macro, function or what else, which ensures, that no german umlauts (äöüÄÖÜ) or the sz (ß) will ever occure in any file written with vim. It does not matter, if these charactes will appear while typing but they should never and under no circumstances be saved to disk. Best solution however would be, if they were changed on the fly to their replacements: umlaut a ä - ae umlaut o ö - oe umlaut u ü - ue umlaut A Ü - Ae umlaut O Ö - Oe umlaut U Ü - Ue sz ß - sz I did some experiments, which had worked under some circumstances and did not under others. But I need something, which does the replacements under any condition. Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Lost in Space
Hi, Suppose I have a text like this (:set list) Hello $ this $ is$ a $ text with $ spaces $ and want it to become this one: Hello = this = is = a = text with = spaces = . I tried different cpoptions combined with blcok-seelcting in visual mode, but I failed and ended up adding spaces by hand in each line, which isn't efficent that much ;) I set virtualedit=block. What do I have to tell vim that it will recognize missing spaces and add it according to a block select? By the way: I am using vim on Gentoo linux as console applikation only (no gvim). Thank you very much in advance for any helpful space! ;) Kind regards and have a nice sunday! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Describe-key ?
Hi, is there anything like describe-key (EMacs)in vim ? In EMacs vou can submit this command, press a combination of keys and EMacs will tel you the naming convention of this key (for example Meta-p) and its current bindings of that combination of keys. Anything like that in vim ? Would help a lot :) Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
mark block from unknown position
Hi, I am trying to automate this: There is a file, which contains one path/filename at each line. Lines with equal files (contents wise) are grouped together. Groups are separated by # ---' (or whatever you want). To sort the lines of one group only I want to put the group into a visual block (correcht naming?) as part of a macro. First step of the macro will be the search for a certain directory. Next will be the creation of the visual block. Since I dont know, whether the line containing the searched directory cames first in the group or last or wherever, and how large the group is, I cannot do things like mark next 3 lines or so. Now I am looking for the command doing mark this group visually. How can I acchieve this? Another question is: If I have created a useful macro -- is there a way to store this macro in .vimrc (or wherever) so that it does not get lost ? Thank you very much in advance for any help ! :) Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Finding something conatined in two lines?
Hi, Suppose there is a file containing a path/filename -- in each line: # a.txt b.txt c.txt # 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt # 1.txt 3.txt 4.txt # Now I want to replace any combination of 1.txt 2,txt by - say - x.txt Is there a way to expand / of two/more lines ? Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
meta offtopic: UTF-8/vim/mutt/mrxvt
Hi, sorry for this meta offtopic question...but I need informations about some internals of vim... I am using mutt to compose and read mail. The editor for this is vim (surprised? :) Mutt/Vim are running on/in/at/on top off/with (or what else the correct preposition is... X-) mrxvt. And all this is running on a Linux 2.6.20.6 Gentoo Linux. Now: When I am receiving mail containing german umlauts, they will be displayed as \number inside mutt. Inside vim these mails are displayed correctly when cited -- most of the times. But in some cases the umlauts also get corrupted. Entering umlauts in vim is also no problem. Entering umlauts on the commandlind (zsh/mrxvt) also displayed them correctly. Filenames containing umlauts are displayed...hrmmm... encrypted but will be correctly expanded (TAB) when using the zsh completion system. These mix of it works and it does not work confuses me. Would vim be able to display german umlauts correctly if the system completly ignores/does not know of UTF-8 ? What is the trick I am missing to display german umlauts correctly with mutt? There are recipes out there in the internet which discribes the _complete_ change from ASCII to UTF-8 for mutt. But these recipes describes more or less the change either on base of a totally UTF-8 aware system (which seems not applicable in my case) or the a complete recompilation of the whole system as a migration from ASCII to UTF-8 ... which seems not to be needed in my case. The basic question is for me: How can vim display german umlauts correctly if the world outside of vim seems not to be completly UTF-8 aware? What do I need to change in the chain ? Thank you very much for your help in advance! Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
replace word from buffer
Hi, is there a way to do this more effectively? I often get in the situation of yanking a word into the buffer, search another word I want to replace with the contents of the buffer, delete the found word and paste the contents of the buffer at the place of the previously found word. Despite the fact, that -- without the yank-ring script -- you have to keep an eye on what is in what buffer, it would be more effective if one could do the following: ywyank replacement word /word find word (word) to be replaced cwchange word under cursor with that in buffer I know, that cw is another command, which is wrong in this case...I only needed a name for what I want to do and cw keeps track of the length of the replaced word and the replacement. Thank you very much for any helpful hint :) ! Keep editing! mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
Vim freezes system ?!
Hi, I did th3 follwing: With a program, which generates random numbers in different formats, I created a file, which consists of _one_ line of 2097152 characters (0-9,A-F). To split the line into lines of 72 characters each, I started vim and let it read the file. I postioned the cursor at position 0 and entered the following in normal mode: qq72rightireturnesc0q Then I did a [EMAIL PROTECTED] After only 10 or 15 (guessed) executions of the macro the system freezes while constantly swapping (?) and became unuseable and did no longer respond. Even the mouse pointer was nearly unmoveable... After heavily and constantly trying I managed to kill the X-session and to 'killall -9 vim' from the console to get back my computer. I am using an up-to-date version of Gentoo and vim (not gvim). My system runs an AMD 64 X2 3800+ CPU and uses a Seagate 200GB harddisk (dma enabled). It needs a lot of load to bring the system to its knees. May be it was wrong what I did in the sense of there are better UNIX tools to reformat such a file or better commands in vim to accomplish this,... ...but in a critical moment it may be that I would have lost my work (other open applikations) due to the need of killing X. Keep editing! ;) mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
