Re: But in Ctrl-N completion

2006-05-11 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Martin Stubenschrott wrote: I am using vim7 final, and have this problem: Let's assume this buffer (between the quotes): this that Now i start inserting 'th' and press ctrl-n and get a popup menu with two choices 'this' and 'that', while the inserted text still remains 'th' (I am using

Re: [BUG] Swap file searched for in the wrong place

2006-05-17 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gautam Iyer wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:31:55AM -0400, James Vega wrote: 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

Re: documentation mistake regarding cuc/cul

2006-05-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, In the options.txt file of Vim documentation... Options 'cursorcolumn' and 'cursorline' are said to be local to window. Given their behavior, it should say local to buffer rather than local to window. However, when thinking some more about this, maybe the

[Fwd: Re: Fwd: keymap for Romanian?]

2006-05-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Hi Vimmers, I got the attached mail privately but I believe it belongs on the list. Best regards, Tony. ---BeginMessage--- On 5/21/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexandru Iancu wrote: Hi, I posted the wrong files. I realised later after I posted while testing. Sorry! Regards

Re: Short file name (Filename) not retained in Windows (XP)

2006-05-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
steven bensky wrote: Short file name (Filename) is not being retained in Windows (XP). VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled May 7 2006 16:18:30) Don't know if this is a bug per say, but, ... --- Create a new file with a long filename. vim this_is_a_test Save the file. List the

Re: Pattern questions

2006-05-23 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Zdenek Sekera wrote: I have this: if (char =~ '\m[;|?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*(){}\\_+-[\]/\]') do something endif Basically it is checking for all non-alphanumeric chars (expect '='). 1. how do I include the ' char?. I can't seem to find a proper way. (I'd like to keep the patter in

Re: netrw, winxp, and a problem...

2006-05-23 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hello, Tony! I've had several folks having a problem with WinXP and netrw. The problems seem to involve temporary files during attempts to use ftp; since temporary filenames are produced by tempname(), they're o/s dependent. Admittedly without having searched

[Bug] On Unix-like systems, cannot redir to register +

2006-06-02 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bug: Cannot redir to @+ - Symptom: Trying to :redir to register + (seen by other apps as the clipboard) gives E475: Invalid argument: @+ - Vim version: 7.0.017 for GTK2 GUI - Workaround: :redir to register * then (after :redir END) do manually :let @+ = @* Just redirecting to @* is not

Re: Vim on Windows XP x64

2006-06-02 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ron Blaschke wrote: George Reilly wrote: Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently managed to compile Vim on Windows XP x64, including the Explorer integration. I don't know if everything is working, but I'm using it for my daily work and at least everything I use seems fine.

Re: VS2005 linking errors with FEATURES=TINY GUI=yes OLE=yes

2006-06-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mathias Michaelis wrote: Hi developers If I compile vim on Windows XP with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition on the command line with nmake -f Make_mvc.mak DEBUG=yes FEATURES=TINY GUI=yes OLE=yes I get the errors: ex_cmds2.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol

I just updated my Vim site

2006-06-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Hello Vim gurus (and newbies) ! My Vim site http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/ has just been updated. The updates include: - Instead of mentioning Vim 6.4 and Vim 7.0 alpha, the site now only refers to the release version of Vim 7.0. Sorry, no more patched distributions of Vim

Re: VS2005 linking errors with FEATURES=TINY GUI=yes OLE=yes

2006-06-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mathias Michaelis wrote: Hi Tony Thanks for your reply! If I compile vim on Windows XP with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition on the command line with nmake -f Make_mvc.mak DEBUG=yes FEATURES=TINY GUI=yes OLE=yes I get the [some] errors: I guess it's a bug; but Tiny

Re: I just updated my Vim site

2006-06-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Hari Krishna Dara wrote: I read your previous emails about your windows laptop being out and that you prefer Linux etc., so I have a suggestion. Why don't you install VMWare virtual server on your Linux box and have windows run just for the builds? If you don't want to purchase a license, it is

Re: ***SPAM*** bay vim in china

2006-06-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear sir Thank you very much for your support. I am panasonic corporate information systens company (china).I want to know whether vim is free to use.If not i want to bay vim in china. please tell me where to bay and how much . Thanks Regards

Re: I just updated my Vim site

2006-06-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
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

Re: I just updated my Vim site

2006-06-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
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

Re: I just updated my Vim site

2006-06-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Steve Hall wrote: From: A.J.Mechelynck, Jun 6, 2006 9:30 AM Until or unlessI think I'll take a back seat to the development of Vim executables for Windows. Tony, for what it's worth, I've improved the Cream build routines so that we can stay on top of patches more easily. Our

Re: All mails lost

2006-06-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mathias Michaelis wrote: [...] But: You don't see no of my mails written yesterday, and also not all from this morning. The testmail written at 09:03:28 +0200 is not from me, but from my Email-Provider. I found that emails that are written on my Thunderbird Email Client AND where addressed to

Re: gvim crash after closing: gvim hanging in Windows XP Taskmanager

2006-06-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mathias Michaelis wrote: Dear developers I observe the following strange behaviour of gvim 7.0 on Windows XP built with HUGE features by my own: I open gvim.exe, work with it or leave it without touching it for half an hour. Then, within gvim.exe, I type :q or :wq. gvim saves the text, remove

Re: gvim crash using mouse with mousefocus set on opensuse 10.1

2006-06-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
William S Fulton wrote: [...] Just need spare time mate, but the SUSE guys have beat me to it already! There is a buffer overrun, all the gory details here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=182212 It was reported as affecting vim 7 too. William Interesting... Notice the SuSE

Re: Bug: Gvim window resizes during save with :w

2006-06-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Jochen Baier wrote: hi, i have weird behavior here (latest svn gvim, linux, Gnome or Wmii) if i save with :w the window change the size to larger size (5 pixel) for moment then it size back to the orginal size. The left scrollbar is visible during this. no problems with normal konsole vim. is

[Fwd: Re: I just updated my Vim site]

2006-06-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Hi Steve, I got the attached email privately. I believe it is meant for you. Best regards, Tony. ---BeginMessage--- A.J.Mechelynck wrote: And even if someday you do understand RPM (used by RedHat and SuSE), you'll still have to figure out dpkg (for Debian) and what-not... I have compiled gvim

Re: incorrect behavior of gzip.vim plugin?

2006-06-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: [...] The problem here is :so % doesn't source the buffer, it sources the underlying file. Thus the file must needs be gunzip'ed first. Vimball could be set up not to gunzip the file, but then sourcing it would fail. Regards, Chip Campbell Looking at the

Documentation bug about matchparen

2006-06-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
*pi_paren.txt* For Vim version 7.0. Last change: 2006 Apr 24 line 46 (i.e. 5th from bottom) there is 'synmaxcolumn' there should be 'synmaxcol' Best regards, Tony.

Re: Patch: Make_mvc.mak creates an empty gvim.exe.mnf file

2006-06-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Mathias Michaelis wrote: Patch Problem:Make_mvc.mak creates an empty gvim.exe.mnf file (or stops with an error message). Solution: Don't use 'echo' to create files. Use inline files instead. Files: src/Make_mvc.mak This has always

Re: Patch (unofficial): Create PDBs and EXEs within same directory

2006-06-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Mathias Michaelis wrote: Patch Problem:IMHO .pdb files should reside in the same directory as the corresponding .exe files so they can be distributet along with them. Solution: Change one line within src/Make_mvc.mak Files:

Re: Patch: Make_mvc.mak creates an empty gvim.exe.mnf file

2006-06-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Tony Mechelynck wrote: echo string1 file echo string2 file echo string3 file etc. ought to work, _except_ when the string is (ignoring case) ON OFF or empty (in which case you will set, clear or display the echo on/off setting instead of

Re: set readonly - strange?

2006-06-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Yakov Lerner wrote: On 6/18/06, Bram Moolenaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yakov Lerner wrote: On 5/23/06, Zdenek Sekera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: create a file ~/.vimtest as follows: cat .vimtest set nocompatible set readonly C-D and execute (g)vim: vim .vimtest

Re: PC sources lacks if_sniff.c

2006-06-19 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mathias Michaelis wrote: Bram The source archive ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/vim70src.zip contains the file if_sniff.h but not the corresponding source file if_sniff.c. Has this a specific reason or has if_sniff.c simply been forgotten? The Sniff interface is something extra, you need to

Re: broken runtimes in ftp

2006-06-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
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 partial duplicate lines at the end. I don't notice any stray duplicate

Re: tab split scrolling problem

2006-06-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Can someone please try this out and confirm: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:18:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I mentioned this problem once on the list before; however, the issue wasn't reproducible. Now I found a way to consistently reproduce it. 1.

Re: tab split scrolling problem

2006-06-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Can someone please try this out and confirm: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:18:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I mentioned this problem once on the list before; however, the issue wasn't reproducible. Now I found a way

Re: mac guitabline v2

2006-06-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nicolas Weber wrote: Hi, You probably already know, but when I patched my source and compiled it, I got these warnings: gui.c: In function ‘gui_init_which_components’: gui.c:3229: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘gui_mch_showing_tabline’ gui.c: In function ‘gui_update_tabline’:

Re: Matchparen highlight bug

2006-06-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ilya wrote: gvim –u NONE –U NONE Create file with 100 empty lines, line with {, 20 empty lines and line with }: :exe normal i{\CR}\Esc20O\Escj%100O\Escj% Turn on matchparen plugin: :set nocp :source $VIMRUNTIME/plugin/matchparen.vim Now cursor should be on the }, this line is

Re: should :silent be suppressing autocmds?

2006-06-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Eric Van Dewoestine wrote: Should prepending :silent to a command be suppressing an autocommand? Neither the docs for autocommands nor the docs for :silent indicate this is the intended behavior. For example: using the following the autocommand is executed as expected with the desired output

Re: Change wildmode w/ 'longest' to be behave like completeopt w/ 'longest'

2006-06-27 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Eric Van Dewoestine wrote: Any thoughts on this? Bram? For the most part I've gotten use to the behavior, but I still occassionaly find my self hitting enter when I see the first entry highlighted, and receive an ambiguous use error because the highlighted entry isn't actually in the command

Re: virus-laden emails from someone on the Vim list

2006-07-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
George V. Reilly wrote: [CCing the Vim and Vim-Dev lists. Not that it did any good the last time I raised this subject.] It is NOT me, dammit! Someone on the Vim list is infected with a virus that trawls through his address book and forges the From address. I too get dozens of virus-laden

Re: BUG: indirect 'configure' invocation hides exit status

2006-07-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
mwoehlke wrote: I found a really annoying problem trying to build VIM 7 on HP-UX. I have an automated script that builds VIM as part of a toolchain. It ran through, and to my surprise and annoyance, installed VIM in /usr/local instead of where I wanted it. Long story short, the script called

Re: Gvim for KDE

2006-07-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Stefan Karlsson wrote: These two sections in the documentation seems contradictory: *gui-kde* *kde* *KDE* *KVim* There is no KDE version of Vim. There has been some work on a port using the Qt toolkit, but it never worked properly and it has

missing help tag c_CTRL-]

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Dear Bram, I think there ought to be a help tag for c_CTRL-] (either synonymous with i_CTRL-] , resending to it, or with a similar text). What do you think? Abbreviations are terminated the same way in Insert and Command-line modes aren't they? Best regards, Tony.

Re: Gvim for KDE

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Matt Sicker wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:40, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Dnia poniedziałek, 17 lipca 2006 17:09, Charles E Campbell Jr napisał: As I recall, the vim7 kde port was dropped because there was no maintainer for the port. I'm not a KDE user myself, so I'm not a candidate, but

Re: VIM7 on Tandem OSS

2006-07-19 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
mwoehlke wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: mwoehlke wrote: Well, that was exciting... I recently tried to build vim 7 on OSS (Tandem / HP Nonstop S-Series). I finally got it to work by diff'ing the ITUG Floss sources (link below) against vim-6.1 and applying the diffs to vim-7.0 (and by first

Re: [PATCH] Ask and you shall...em, find?

2006-07-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nikolai Weibull wrote: Here's a patch for :pwd that echoes the pwd with the attributes specified by the Directory highlighting group. What do you people think about this? Is it necessary, nice, silly, stupid, unnecessary? I think that it makes sense, seeing as how it prints a /directory/.

Re: [PATCH] Ask and you shall...em, find?

2006-07-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ilya wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: I prefer answers given on the command-line (with more if necessary) to appear in the default colors with the following exceptions: - It's OK for titles (as in the listing of autocommands) to appear in another colour; - It's OK for the xxx of :highlight

Re: [PATCH] Ask and you shall...em, find?

2006-07-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nikolai Weibull wrote: On 7/22/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't the default be aligned with the direcories of the netrw buffer (which I want in a different colour), rather than with the Normal group? hi def link PwdDirectory Directory but seeing as how you both don't

Typo in helpfile tips.txt

2006-07-23 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
*tips.txt* For Vim version 7.0. Last change: 2006 Apr 30 at line 152, there is: terminfo entry (retrieved with /usr/5bin/infocmp -C xterm). Both should 5bin is obviously a typo. One might think that sbin would be right. However, on my system (SuSE 9.3) infocmp resides in /usr/bin, not

Re: using hidden unlisted buffer as transparently as possible

2006-07-23 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Marvin Renich wrote: I am enhancing my cyclecolor script and would like to use another buffer, but would like to do it as transparently as possible. I use bufnr(filename, 1) to create a new buffer, then save the current buffer number, switch to the new buffer, do some things, and switch back.

Re: findfile() results are inconsistent

2006-07-24 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Hello, Results of findfile() are inconsistent: /home/mikolaj/a /home/mikolaj/1/b /home/mikolaj/2/c /home/mikolaj/3/d /home/mikolaj/3/4/e 1. We are in /home/mikolaj:: echo findifile(b, 1;) 1/b 2. We are in /home/mikolaj/2:: echo findifile(b,

Re: Bug in :runtime ?

2006-07-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bill McCarthy wrote: Hello Vim Developers, I was timing the startup process by stepping though what I think Gvim does (on Win XP Pro with 7.0.42). gvim -u NONE -N That starts up without _vimrc or _gvimrc or plugins and sets nocp. :so $vim\_vimrc worked fine. :so $vim\_gvimrc

Re: Bug in :runtime ?

2006-07-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Benji Fisher wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:45:12AM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Bill McCarthy wrote: Hello Vim Developers, I was timing the startup process by stepping though what I think Gvim does (on Win XP Pro with 7.0.42). gvim -u NONE -N That starts up without _vimrc or _gvimrc

Re: Bug in :runtime ?

2006-07-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bill McCarthy wrote: On Wed 26-Jul-06 12:45am -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: IIUC, it's a feature: \* means a literal asterisk. Not a very good feature since IIUC, asterisks are not allowed in filenames on Windows. Or can they happen in long file names? I know \* means a literal asterisk

Re: Bug in :runtime ?

2006-07-26 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bill McCarthy wrote: On Wed 26-Jul-06 5:03pm -0600, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: $HOME/vimfiles and $HOME/vimfiles/after should be in your 'rtp' (on Windows); the first place where Vim looks for your _vimrc is $HOME even though it is not in 'rtp'. (And BTW, $VIM should not be in your 'rtp' either

Bug: Can't select bottom window by mouse-clicking

2006-07-28 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Can't select bottom window by mouse-clicking Happens every time. How to reproduce: 1. :set ch=2 wmh=0 wh= don't know if relevant 2. Open at least two horizontally split windows 3. Make some window current, other than the bottom one 4. Click the bottom status line. Actual result: Nothing

Re: PCBSD error

2006-07-31 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Cc to vim-dev list. Robin Becker wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Robin Becker wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Robin Becker wrote: .. 'guifontset' being empty is usually not a problem; and 'guifont' can be empty (giving some default font); but in any case you need fonts installed

Re: Bug: Can't select bottom window by mouse-clicking

2006-07-31 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Can't select bottom window by mouse-clicking Happens every time. How to reproduce: 1. :set ch=2 wmh=0 wh= don't know if relevant 2. Open at least two horizontally split windows 3. Make some window current, other than the bottom one 4

Re: yanking into register and using that in command

2006-08-02 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Denis Perelyubskiy wrote: hello, I am trying to emulate textpad. In textpad, when cursor is over some word and you press ctrl-f5 the search box pops up, and a word is in the input area. So, an equivalent behavior (at least for now :-)) in vim is to press ctrl-f5 and have a word show up in the

Re: once again - how to unsubscribe?

2006-08-02 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ulrich Lauther wrote: Hi, the automated mechanism for unsubsrcibing from this list still doesn't work. Could please someone remove me from the list? Thanks, The list is operated only by non-humans (computers and programs, I mean). The people at fu-berlin math department will let the

Re: once again - how to unsubscribe?

2006-08-02 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ulrich Lauther wrote: Ulrich Lauther wrote: Hi, the automated mechanism for unsubsrcibing from this list still doesn't work. Could please someone remove me from the list? Thanks, The list is operated only by non-humans (computers and programs, I mean). The people at fu-berlin math department

Re: once again - how to unsubscribe?

2006-08-03 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ulrich Lauther wrote: On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:47:05AM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: the automated mechanism for unsubsrcibing from this list still doesn't work. Actually it does! I just unsubscribed from my old address, and subscribed using my new email address. Just follow the instructions

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mohsin wrote: I want to use a highlighter mode on my text file, example: :color_region bold line1 col1 line2 col2 :color_region bold 5 5 6 6 :color_region underline 5 5 6 6 I couldn't do this in vim. Vim only has syntax coloring with regexps. Emacs has functions to apply properties to

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mohsin wrote: I already tried your solution, it only works for a single region at a time On applying the same higlighting to second region and the first one is un-highlighted. Try this (the third command will unhilight the first region): :highlight User1 term=bold cterm=5 guibg=red match

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
François Pinard wrote: [Mikolaj Machowski] [Mohsin]: Vim only has syntax coloring with regexps. Emacs has functions to apply properties to text blocks, and I was hoping vim has something comparable. Of course it is possible: :help /\%l :help /\%c Humph, not really! Text

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mohsin wrote: The problem is I want to apply the highlighting to multiple blocks of text simultaneously, so regexp doesn't help. mohsin. :help /\| Best regards, Tony.

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-04 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Suresh Govindachar wrote: [...] [snip entire para Tony wrote.] Tony, Your comments aren’t applicable to Francois. --Suresh Oops, sorry, the entire email sounded like a pro-Emacs rant to me, coming from that Mohsin guy who kept repeating I came from Emacs, and your Vim regexps can't do it

Bug or feature? When running GUI-enabled Vim in a console

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bug or feature? When running GUI-enabled Vim in a console (not possible on W32, but on Unix it is), the has() and exists() functions do not always reflect the _current_ reality. Examples: :echo has(gui_gtk2) 1 In the above case it may be regarded as a feature: I can still check

Re: Vim-Runtime

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Martin Krischik wrote: [...] I was hoping there is a way without unduly stuffing Brams E-Mail inbox... Bram has the final say on what makes it into the official distribution anyway. Just be sure the Subject: line of your email clearly indicates what you're writing about. Martin PS: Take

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
François Pinard wrote: [...] I did not really take position about if Vim or Emacs are better than one another, or wrong altogether :-). But I do have an opinion: both are great editors, each with their own many virtues and few weaknesses, each being a good source of inspiration and ideas for

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nikolai Weibull wrote: [...] However, it can sort of be simulated by having marks that stick to the text position that they mark, instead of line + fixed column. (We don't have this kind of mark at the moment.) nikolai IIUC, Vim's marks _are_ normally anchored to the text they mark, not

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nikolai Weibull wrote: On 8/5/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: However, it can sort of be simulated by having marks that stick to the text position that they mark, instead of line + fixed column. (We don't have this kind of mark at the moment.) IIUC

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Yakov Lerner wrote: On 8/6/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: On 8/5/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolai Weibull wrote: However, it can sort of be simulated by having marks that stick to the text position that they mark, instead of line

Re: Editing within a Visual Block

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Weiguang Shi wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a plan to add the feature of Normal-mode editing within a visual block. This would be very useful when drawing ASCII figures in Vim, when you want to focus on and make changes in a region. I haven't seen so far scripts smart enough to

Re: No way to color-region(s) of text -- highlighter mode.

2006-08-05 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Nikolai Weibull wrote: On 8/5/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When breaking a line before a mark, the mark stays with the part-line before the line break: And I repeat: Bug? No. That's just the way marks work. And it's a misfeature in my opinion. It's always possible to add

Re: Bug or feature? When running GUI-enabled Vim in a console

2006-08-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Tony Mechelynck wrote: Bug or feature? When running GUI-enabled Vim in a console (not possible on W32, but on Unix it is), the has() and exists() functions do not always reflect the _current_ reality. Examples: :echo has(gui_gtk2) 1 In the above case it may be

Re: vim cannot quit after certain tabs manipulation

2006-08-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Yakov Lerner wrote: After certain 3-step manipulation with tabs, can't quit vim with :q!. (vim 7.0.42). Tabline is not updated properly. % vim -u NONE -U NONE ixescmake 1st buffer modified :tabnewcr create 2nd tab ixescmake 2nd

Re: vim cannot quit after certain tabs manipulation

2006-08-06 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Yakov Lerner wrote: On 8/6/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yakov Lerner wrote: % vim -u NONE -U NONE ixescmake 1st buffer modified :tabnewcr create 2nd tab ixescmake 2nd buffer modified :tabclose! 1

Re: modified 1.2.6.55 Tv1

2006-08-07 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Hello! What is the message about (given on the subject line and here: modified 1.2.6.55 Tv1). I get it when I'm using tags: vi -t sometag Regards, Chip Campbell P.S. I use vim 7.0, patches 1-42, huge debug-build. Regards, Chip Campbell I don't get that

Re: Vim updates

2006-08-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Ali Akcaagac wrote: Hello Bram, On my home Linux system I can easily compile and install every patch you release for Vim, same applies for the MorphOS versions that I from time to time create and release for our users but for Windows - which I need to use at work - I am stuck with the *.exe

Re: BCC 5.5 build is broken (but here is a fix)

2006-08-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mark S. Williams wrote: Thanks, Tony. I did some digging. The change in question was in svn revision 57. It appears to have introduced some sort of order-of-declaration problem between BCC and the rest of the world. ;-) Below is an svn patch that works for me, and the svn diff for

Re: Vim updates

2006-08-12 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Ali Akcaagac wrote: On my home Linux system I can easily compile and install every patch you release for Vim, same applies for the MorphOS versions that I from time to time create and release for our users but for Windows - which I need to use at work - I am stuck with

Re: Vim's mch_FullName() function and ClearCase versioned file names

2006-08-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gary Johnson wrote: [...] I've also come up with a solution for part of the problem, that of Vim's insistence on converting a name like /project/xyz/system/src/bar.c@@/main/42 (through chdir() and getcwd()) to a name like

Re: Vim updates

2006-08-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bill McCarthy wrote: On Sun 13-Aug-06 7:41pm -0600, Steve Hall wrote: A normal full install should have all or nearly all these (at least my install here on Fedora Core 5 does): vim70/autoload/ colors/ compiler/ doc/ ftplugin/ icons/ indent/

Re: more on local additions in help.txt

2006-08-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gabriel Farrell wrote: Hi, Regarding a thread [1] back in February on this list about local additions, I'm not seeing some of the errors remarked upon at that time, but I do see 'matchit.txt' under the LOCAL ADDITIONS heading even when it's not installed. If I do copy it into the doc directory

Re: Patch 7.0.048

2006-08-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Alexey I. Froloff wrote: * Bram Moolenaar Bram@ [060808 22:52]: ! call system(a:cmd . ' . nmt . ') This patch is evil (:-E~~~). Better add shellescape() function to Vim and properly escape argument. Well, at least it's a lot better than what it was. I know it

Re: conceal-patch status

2006-08-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Philipp M. Frank wrote: Hi, I've been looking for a 7.0-compatible version of the conceal-patch [1], but so far I have been unsuccessful. Does anyone know if this patch is still maintained or should I try to adapt it to 7.0 myself? (To those not familiar with the conceal-functionality: it

Warnings in latest make

2006-08-16 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
After applying the latest 10 patches (54-63) to Vim, I get a number of warnings (below). Since the compile proceeds to completion, I shall install the resulting executable; but you may (or may not) want to investigate this more deeply. I don't feel competent to determine which of these

Re: Netrw and cindent

2006-08-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mark S. Williams wrote: I think I've uncovered an odd bug involving Netrw and the cindent local buffer option for Java files, where cindent is unset under certain conditions. To track down the bug I removed all my Java file type plugins and created a new Java file type plugin called java.vim

Re: any git developper using gvimdiff ?

2006-08-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Christian MICHON wrote: Hi vim-devers, I'm currently trying out git (linux scm) and I have not found yet how to perform a gvimdiff on a file locally modified with the latest commit. Is there a simple/easy way out for this issue ? Any git specialist amond vim-dev who could give me a hint ?

Re: returning values from function(ex_func_T args)?

2006-08-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gaspar Chilingarov wrote: Hello! Are there any common method to return values from ex_func_T type functions which are defined in CMD_index in ex_cmds.h (external command handlers - say perl/ruby and etc)? I would like to return function execution result to calling script - say string, or list.

Re: returning values from function(ex_func_T args)?

2006-08-21 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gaspar Chilingarov wrote: Hi all! IIUC, ex_func_t means void *, i.e., a pointer to anything. You would still need to know what type of object (a pointer to what) the function you're calling is actually returning. well, I'm going to write if_* script to integrate vim with erlang -- so I

Re: Conflict in help

2006-08-22 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Tony Mechelynck wrote: Under :help starstar-wildcard it is said that the ** wildcard goes up to 100 levels deep. Under :help starstar it is said that it goes up to 30 levels deep by default, but that any integer value in the range [0,255] can be explicitly specified.

Re: ff fenc bin in modeline

2006-08-24 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Yasuhiro Matsumoto wrote: vim can't treat ff and fenc, bin option on modelines. We can specify 'fencs' for judging some encodings. But vim often mis-judge when opening a text file. If we can set 'fenc' on modeline, vim won't fail. I wrote a patch for this support.

Re: How to trigger a screen update from RealWaitForChar

2006-08-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Brad Beveridge wrote: [...] Potential issues : [...] - I am not familiar with autoconf stuff, so this patch does not integrate with the make system of Vim, somebody probably needs to add it to config.in. There were too many diffs in the various files that I thought to check, and I didn't

Re: any git developper using gvimdiff ?

2006-08-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le ven 25 août 2006 17:38, Christian MICHON a écrit : nice madcoding :) work in bash, but not tcsh. I said *decent* shell :P Thanks anyway: I learned something new from it you're welcome. Oh, so tcsh is an indecent shell then... :-Þ Best regards, Tony.

Re: Know when the :source/:runtime has finished ?

2006-08-28 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Zdenek Sekera wrote: Perhaps a strange question so maybe a small explanation of why is in order: When I :source or :runtime a *.vim file, commands in that file build a buffer. To know when the buffer is complete, I have to know what follows, and if complete (because the following has an

Bug? :setl bomb on Unicode file doesn't set 'modified'

2006-08-28 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Hello, Changing a file's 'fileencoding' or 'fileformat' (or 'eol' when 'binary' is set) sets the 'modified' flag, but setting or clearing 'bomb' doesn't, even for Unicode files (e.g. enc == utf-8, fenc == or fenc == utf-8). Now with, for example, 'bomb' set, if the disk file is Unicode

Re: Bug? :setl bomb on Unicode file doesn't set 'modified'

2006-08-28 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Tony Mechelynck wrote: Changing a file's 'fileencoding' or 'fileformat' (or 'eol' when 'binary' is set) sets the 'modified' flag, but setting or clearing 'bomb' doesn't, even for Unicode files (e.g. enc == utf-8, fenc == or fenc == utf-8). Now with, for example, 'bomb'

Re: better recognising of tex vs plaintex filetype

2006-08-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gautam Iyer wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:17:16PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I agree with the comment that plain TeX users may also define such sectioning commands. Maybe it would be safe if you check for such definitions, using an include-file search ... but of course, that is more

Re: Unable to use :setf from $VIMRUNTIME/ftdetect/*.vim

2006-08-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Alexey I. Froloff wrote: filetype.vim looks like: augroup filetypedetect ... Generic configuration file (check this last, it's just guessing!) au BufNewFile,BufRead,StdinReadPost * \ ... some files are being setf'ed to conf Use the plugin-filetype checks last, they may overrule any

Re: session-file problem in presence of 'set acd'

2006-08-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Yakov Lerner wrote: When 'acd' is set, 'vim -S' open files in wrong directory. To reproduce: 1. make your ~/.vimrc 1-liner 'set acd' (Alternatively, use use vim -u NONE -c 'set acd' instead of vim in commands below). 2. vim ~/xxx# or :he options.txt now you have two

Re: Unable to use :setf from $VIMRUNTIME/ftdetect/*.vim

2006-08-30 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Alexey I. Froloff wrote: * Bram Moolenaar Bram@ [060831 00:14]: The current method is correct. In the ftdetect scripts you can check for 'filetype' being equal to conf and then do :set ft=anything to overrule it. Use :setf only when you don't want to overrule the default filetype. I want

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