RE: Svn and patches

2006-04-28 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Zdenek asked for "some how-to for those of us who never used svn before?" I am no expert either, but this is what I did on Windows XP: Download the following from http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91 svn-win32-1.3.1.zip svn-win32-1.3.1_pl.z

RE: Vim thinks a directory is an illegal filename on Windows

2006-04-28 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Charles Campbell wrote: > >> William S Fulton wrote: >> >>> run: gvim . >>> on Windows at bottom it will say, eg: "C:\" Illegal file name >>> on Solaris and Linux at the bottom it will say, eg: . is a >>> directory >>> >>> The Unix message is le

RE: Install Fails on Windows

2006-04-29 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Bill McCarthy wrote: > >> Compiling with MVC or Ming, the exe files are copied from >> c:\vim\vim70f\src to c:\vim\vim70f (the usual place). But >> running install produces the following: >> >> [c:\vim\vim70f]install >> This program sets up t

Re: Install Fails on Windows

2006-04-30 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bill McCarthy wrote: > On Sat 29-Apr-06 3:49pm -0600, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >> There are two setups, the Unix one and the MS-Windows one. >> >> If you use the Unix setup you need to do "make install". Thus >> uses the files in the ../runtime directory that were unpacked >> from

RE: How long does it take for svn to sync with whereever it is the real sources are?

2006-04-30 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hisashi T Fujinaka was just "wondering, since every time Bram announces a new release (7.0g this time) [he gets] itchy. :) A day or so ago, Edward L. Fox wrote on vim@vim.org: | Hi, I'm the subversion repository maintainer. I sync the | subversion repository with the CVS reposit

Feature request -- expression based syntax

2006-05-05 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello Bram, Please consider supporting expressions for syntax matching. An example of usage is indicated below: let i = 0 while i < 10 exec 'syn match level'.i \ ( \ (foldlevel(line(".")) != foldlevel(line(".")-1)) && \ (

RE: Feature request -- expression based syntax

2006-05-06 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Suresh Govindachar wrote: > >> Please consider supporting expressions for syntax matching. >> An example of usage is indicated below: > > I don't quite get it. ":syn match" commands use a pattern. You &g

RE: Feature request -- expression based syntax

2006-05-06 Thread Suresh Govindachar
In the post below, by line(".") I do _not_ mean the line where the cursor currently is; but I mean "the line the syntax engine is currently dealing with". -Original Message- Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Suresh Govindachar wrote: > &

Feature request -- expression based syntax

2006-05-06 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> Bram Moolenaar wrote: >>> Suresh Govindachar wrote: >>> >>>> Please consider supporting expressions for syntax matching. >>>> An example of usage is indicated

RE: SVN and svn:eol-style

2006-05-11 Thread Suresh Govindachar
In regard to line-endings in vim sources, Bill McCarthy wrote > >> So? Why are you using notepad? > > When working on another's computer, what > do you suggest? Wordpad? This thread is about adding CR/LF to vim sources in svn. So the question is why would one need to view

RE: Cannot build vim with Perl support

2006-05-14 Thread Suresh Govindachar
ActiveState's build 816 was bad, and they immediately came out with 817. Do you notice any difference in the file that the build complains about for build 815 and 817? Has anyone been able to build vim on Windows with support for ActiveState's 817 build of perl? --Suresh -Origin

svn, cvs

2006-06-17 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, Since svn sources haven't been updated, and since they differs from the cvs sources by CR/LF in some files, I tried cvs. However: The following: C:\home\suresh\develop\vim\cvs>c:\opt\cvs\cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/vim checkout vim7 resulted in: cv

RE: svn, cvs

2006-06-17 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Based on Sir Raorn's reply, I tried: C:\home\suresh\develop\vim\cvs>c:\opt\cvs\cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/vim checkout vim7 which did lots of stuff and ended with: U vim7/src/xxd/xxd.c cvs checkout: dying gasps from vim.cvs.sourceforge.net unexpected Repeating t

RE: svn, cvs

2006-06-17 Thread Suresh Govindachar
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: >Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> Based on Sir Raorn's reply, I tried: >> >> C:\home\suresh\develop\vim\cvs>c:\opt\cvs\cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/vim checkout vim7 >> >> which did lots of stuff

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

2006-08-04 Thread Suresh Govindachar
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,

Autocommand-Event for Clipboard-Changed

2006-10-01 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Is it possible to add an autocommand-event for "Clipboard Changed"? Thanks, --Suresh

Why not commit runtime files?

2006-10-12 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Hello, I have just found out that while the runtime directory is periodically updated on the ftp site, it is not committed to the cvs repository. What is the reason for not committing runtime files into cvs? I see some comment about runtime files not having patches; but committing to cvs d

RE: Why not commit runtime files?

2006-10-12 Thread Suresh Govindachar
A.J.Mechelynck wrote: >Suresh Govindachar wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have just found out that while the runtime directory is >> periodically updated on the ftp site, it is not committed to >> the cvs repository. >> >> What is the rea

RE: [Patch] Adapted :buffer listing

2006-12-27 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Simon Pamies Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:19 AM >* Simon Pamies wrote, On 27.12.2006 11:50 Uhr: >> Hi All, >> >> I had some problems using the :buffer listing. If you have many >> files (read 30+) open, the :buffer list is cluttered up with I usually have over 100 buffers

RE: [Patch] Adapted :buffer listing

2006-12-27 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Simon Pamies Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:49 AM >* Suresh Govindachar wrote, On 27.12.2006 12:35 Uhr: >> Simon Pamies Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:19 AM >>>* Simon Pamies wrote, On 27.12.2006 11:50 Uhr: >>>> [...] >>> >

RE: VIM doesn't need new features?!?!

2007-04-15 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Peter Michaux wrote on April 15, 2007 > I like VIM. I want to use VIM as my everyday editor. I even > spent a frustrating week trying to determine if VIM could > replace Textmate as my main editor. VIM is very good for > working with a single file but the concept of a project is not

Re: Compiling vim in mingw.

2007-05-07 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Markus Trenkwalder wrote: > >>checked out vim-7.1a.001 today from svn (#263) and tried to >>compile it with mingw-gcc and got the following error: >> >> 8< >> $ make -f Make_ming.mak >> gcc -c -Iproto -DWIN32 -DWINVER=0x0400 -D_WIN32_WINNT

RE: [Announcement] Subversion repository location changed

2007-05-08 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Edward L. Fox announced: > Hi Vimmers, > > The directories structure of the Subversion repository has been > changed. Please use this command to checkout the latest sources: > > svn co https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/branches/vim7.1 vim7 > > If you had checked o