Using GUI on Mac OS X

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, I am trying to compile vim with gui support on Mac OS X 10.2, but it doesn't seem to work. I use ./configure --enable-gui=auto And this is the only line of output I get containing the word 'gui': ... checking --enable-gui argument... no GUI support ... Do I need to install

Slightly off-topic: Using IRC freenode #vim

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, I'm having trouble using the #vim channel on irc.freenode.net and the Wiki FAQ isn't operational at the moment. I've registered my nick with nickserv but still I join #vim and I don't see any conversation happening, does anyone know if I have left something out? output of /whois toomuchphp:

Trying to use GetLatestVimScripts on Mac OS X

2006-05-30 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, Just discovered GetLatestVimScripts command, but it doesn't work on my Mac because I don't have the 'wget' tool. Does anyone know where I could get it from? regards, Peter regards, Peter On Yahoo!7 Dating: It's free t

Re: Goto file under cursor with line number

2006-06-02 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, I should probably add this to vim.org as a Plugin or something at some stage. Drop all this stuff in your .vimrc and then 'gf' will jump to the file + line number, and 'gsf' will split the window then jump to the file + line number. ===

Re: Using GUI on Mac OS X

2006-06-04 Thread Peter Hodge
vim using a filename which doesn't exist? regards, Peter --- Richard Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am trying to compile vim with gui support on Mac OS X

Re: syntax match question

2006-06-06 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, So you want something like: " highlight all var options using this match syntax match allVarOptions "\%(\s\|^\)\zs-\w\+" " highlight the keywords within allVarOptions: " note: because '-' is an iskeyword character, you have to " use a match instead. syntax match allVarOptionKeywo

Updated PHP syntax file

2006-06-07 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, I have recently been given the go-ahead to take over maintenance of the PHP syntax file ( http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-vim-maintainers/2006-May/002857.html ), and have added several modifications, but I'm unable to host the file on my own web server. Stefano mentioned I

When is a syntax file too big?

2006-06-18 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, I have recently taken over maintainance of the PHP syntax file which was rather neglected for around 2 years. PHP is growing quite rapidly and unfortunately that means that by now there are well over 1700 keywords which need to be correctly identified, and my next release of the syntax

Re: PHP fold html

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, You can achieve this by setting setting foldmethod=marker, which automatically creates folds at all {{{ and }}} pairs. See :help fold-marker for more information. Adding to the syntax file should not be necessary. regards, Peter --- Silent1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i added this to

Troubles with cursor()

2006-07-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, According to the help file, the function 'cursor()' should accept 2 or 3 arguments, or a list with 2 or 3 items. However, when I execute this command: :call cursor([5, 5]) It does *not* move the cursor, even though the equivalent: :call cursor(5, 5) ... will work. I must provide a 3r

For Vim + PHP users: regarding the PHP syntax

2006-07-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Greetings fellow PHP developers, You may not be aware that as of a month ago, I have taken up maintenance of the PHP syntax file for Vim, and the latest versions can be found here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1571 Version 0.9 (the initial upload) is currently distributed with

Re: how to

2006-07-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Vincent, An abbreviation cannot begin with a non-keyword character and end in more than one keyword character, thus ...' instead. >From the manual: Examples of strings that cannot be abbreviations: "a.b", "#def", "a b", "_$r" See ':help abbreviations' for more information. regards, Peter

Re: Modificaton needed to cobol.vim syntax file.

2006-07-04 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, Does enabling the legacy code option fix the problem? Try: :let cobol_legacy_code = 1 :syntax on and :help cobol ... for more information. regards, Peter --- "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At present if syntax is on and the filetype is e.g., cbl and > the file

How do I stop a mapping from looking like a mapping?

2006-07-12 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, I want to make a mapping like this: :inoremap foreach foreach() {}k$3hi The end result being that when I type: foreach I should get foreach() { } However, if I type anything beginning with 'for', the letters disappear until I type something that is not part of the mapping.

Re: How do I stop a mapping from looking like a mapping?

2006-07-12 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to make a mapping like this: > > > > :inoremap foreach foreach() {}k$3hi > > > > The end result being that when I type: > > > > foreach > > > > I should get > > > > foreach() { > > } > > Sounds more like you're reaching for an abbr

Re: How do I stop a mapping from looking like a mapping?

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Hari, Yakov, Thank you very much for your help! Yakov, thank you for an effective solution, Hari thank you for providing such a flexible way to use it! kind regards, Peter On Yahoo!7 Dating: It's free to join and check o

Re: perlcomplete.vim -- anyone working on this?

2006-07-16 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, I do believe that if you 'set verbose=2' and then 'set isk?' vim will tell you where it was last set. I was having the same problem Saturday night when the ftplugin/php.vim was adding '$' to isk. I found that adding "set isk-=$" to ~/.vim/ftplugin/php.vim did *not* work, but adding it to

Re: perlcomplete.vim -- anyone working on this?

2006-07-16 Thread Peter Hodge
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh. Grr, I hate it when plugins go changing the absolute value of your > settings. I had a perl_doc.vim ftplugin that was "setlocal > iskeyword=a-z,A-Z,48-57,:,/,."ing, which must have been being sourced after > perl.vim. > > Thanks, Peter. >

Re: Color Question

2006-07-17 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Ralf, The colorscheme 'morning' has very little Cyan in it - cyan is the default for the 'Identifier' group, which is used for $variables and functions(). Just add something like this to colors/morning.vim: highlight Identifier ctermfg=Red guifg=Red If you want function calls in a distingu

RE: colors

2006-07-18 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Bill, You do not have to program a new colorscheme. If you run this command: :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim ... you will get a window containing all the highlighting colours used by Vim. There's hundreds of colours listed, but there are prossibly only two that you want to change, un

Re: :edit {file} question

2006-07-19 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Malahal, You can use ':S' to open a new File Explorer window or ':E' to open file explorer in the current window. regards, Peter --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the easiest way to edit a file that is in the same directory as > the current file? E.g. I open a file like this: vim /x/y

Re: using syntax match two time in one line? fst blocks snd?

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Marc, I am assuming that you have output like this: --- | Field1 | Field2 | Field3 | Field4 | ... | --- | Value1 | Value2 | Value3 | Value4 | ... | --- In which ca

Syntax Feature Request

2006-07-27 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, I just want to throw this idea out there as a potential solution to the problems I am having with the PHP syntax. It would be helpful to be able to name sequential 'nextgroups' for regions and matches, so that the syntax will highlight an area using certain groups in specific order. I.

Re: Differences with vim 7

2006-07-31 Thread Peter Hodge
Some GUIs will allow you to use the command set guifont=* Which brings up a font selection window. If that works, you can select a font and then use set guifont to find out exactly what to add to your .vimrc regards, Peter --- Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/31/06, Robert

Re: au! failure in vimrc

2006-07-31 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Bill, vimrc is read before plugins, so your au! command in .vimrc can't replace the AsNeeded autocommand because AsNeeded hasn't been defined yet. regards, Peter --- Bill McCarthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Vim List, > > Suppose two plugins define autocmds, so after start Vim, >

Re: Automatic updating file content

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Tien, You can use ':e[dit]' to reload the current file. Perhaps you could set up something with an autocommand based on the CursorHold event and reduce the updatetime to half a second? For example: set updatetime=500 augroup RefreshFile autocmd! autocmd CursorHold somefile.log edit

Re: Automatic updating file content

2006-08-01 Thread Peter Hodge
> > Thank you very much for the tip. ":e" works so nicely. I will try out those > commands soon. Should I insert them in my vimrc file ? > Hi Tien, Sorry, it seems I was a little naive with that autocommand I showed you, it doesn't work because CursorHold won't trigger again until you press a ke

Re: Sorting columns in a file

2006-08-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Eric, I am assuming you want to re-order the columns horizontally, in which case Visual Block Mode is what you want. Press CTRL+V to start selecting a column, use 'x' to delete it, and 'P' (upper-case P) to paste it (I find upper-case P is more logical for Visual Block paste). HTH, regards, P

Re: How to scroll up and down without changing horizontal pos

2006-08-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi, You can use CTRL-E and CTRL-Y to scroll up and down without moving the cursor. regards, Peter --- Eric Leenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using page-up and page-down to scroll. > Also ctrl-home and ctrl-end. > This moves the cursor to the beginning of the line. > How can th

Re: how to check if we are inside phpRegion

2006-08-05 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Yakov, As far as I can remember, all PHP syntax items begin with 'php', with the exception of the preg* pattern items (these are only available if you've downloaded the new PHP syntax from vim.org), and they start with 'preg'. Sorry I don't have a copy of Vim installed at this location so I ca

Re: Smarter Indent (an odd problem)

2006-08-05 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Yakov, --- Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Must be possible using CursorMoves autoevent, except > that I don't see in syntax/html.vim how is handled. > Is is indeed in syntax /html.vim ? PHP stuff is in syntax/php.vim which loads html.vim inside it. regards, Peter Send instant m

Re: PCRE? Perl Compatible Regular Expressions?

2006-08-08 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi David, If you begin your pattern with '\v', then every character except [_a-z0-9] becomes 'special'. This allows you to use tokens like '?', '(' and '+' without a backslash. Unfortunately, you can't use '(?:' and friends. Maybe there should be a modifier like '\v' which makes the pattern com

Re: can we set vim to use magic=very ??

2006-08-10 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Martin, Unfortunately, I don't think there's any way to use \v by default for every pattern. It may help to remember that when you have the default 'magic' option set, Vim only recognizes 5 special characters without backslash: ^ $ . * [ (if there is a matching ] to make a collection

Why is after/colors/.vim disabled?

2006-08-20 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, I am just curious as to why after/colors/ scripts are disabled instead of behaving like after/ftplugin and after/syntax scripts? regards, Peter On Yahoo!7 Messenger - Make free PC-to-PC calls to yo

% does not work with ' ( '

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, Is there any way to make % jump to the correct parenthesis and ignore a '(' inside a single-quoted string? For example: if('string(string') Pressing % while the cursor is at the end of the line will jump to the wrong '('. Is there any way to fix this? The help page on % does not ment

Re: % does not work with ' ( ' - never mind

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Hodge
Sorry, disregard last post, % wasn't working because I didn't actually have % in cpoptions yet. --- Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to make % jump to the correct parenthesis and ignore a '(' > inside a single-quoted s

Re: highlight setting overwritten

2006-08-22 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, Another way to get around this is to add something like this to your _vimrc: augroup MyColors au! au ColorScheme * highlight Comment guifg=Darkgreen au ColorScheme * highlight Identifier guifg=Blue [ ... etc ... ] augroup end " execute the commands now in case they aren't tr

Re: php indent in vim7 not worked

2006-08-23 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello Vu, I don't know the indenting features very well, but I can tell you: 1) I'm not sure that lines are indented after ' wrote: > I'm very sorry but could you tell me how to indent *.php file in vim7? > I'm using winXP. I created test.php file, open it and type hit Enter > But it not inden

Re: Python Script Execution Support in ViM

2006-08-23 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello Barry, For PHP, I use a command like ':!php %' (or ':!php "%"' for windows) to run a file through PHP. From there, it's not hard to set up a mapping ':nnoremap :!python %' or a menu command ':nnoremenu Python.Run :!python %', or an auto-command to run the script when it is saved ':autocmd!

Re: How to create a plugin that runs after any skeletons are loaded as part of BufNewFile.

2006-08-26 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, --- Elliot Shank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm trying to do is create a plugin that acts based upon the contents of > an arbitrary file buffer as soon after it has loaded its contents as > possible. > > For existing files, using a BufReadPost autocmd is fine. > > For new file buf

Re: cursorline highlight error

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Paul, You are doing the same as this: :set highlight <- shows contents of 'highlight' option :set cursorline <- activates 'cursorline' option ... but in the one command: :set highlight cursorline <- shows contents of 'highlight' option and activate 'cursorline' option Just use 'set cu

again: % does not work with ' ( '

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, I don't know what I was smoking last time I posted this question, but it definitely is not working for me now: If I have the following code: if('string(string') and I press % while the cursor is on the last ')', it correctly jumps to the first '('. But, if I change the quotes to singl

Re: again: % does not work with ' ( '

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Hodge
Sorry, In my example I meant to use if("string(string") and not if('string(string') because double-quotes DO work, single-quotes do not. - Peter --- Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know what I was smoking

Re: Re [2]: again: % does not work with ' ( '

2006-08-30 Thread Peter Hodge
Hey, Thanks for that important clue. It seems the secret to making it work is in the values of the b:match_skip and b:match_words variables. Thank you, this problem has been bugging me for a while. regards, Peter > > Addendum: It depends on the 'filetype' and possibly on whether %-jumping >

Re: unmatched strings

2006-09-01 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to highlight unmatched strings for " and ' in a syntax file? > > What is an "unmatched string"? Here's two matches which will find a string that extends to the end of the line: syntax match Error /"\%(\\.\|[^"]\)*$/ syntax match E

Re: syntax borked

2006-09-04 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello Jorge, The problem is solved if you change this line: 768 sub reloadlist{ to this: 768 sub reloadlist { It looks as though it is a bug in the perl syntax file. You should send the maintainer an email with your perl code snippet, and he should be able to fix it. It probably never ev

Re: syntax borked

2006-09-04 Thread Peter Hodge
--- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It doesn't. After pasting into an empty buffer via the clipboard, > block-deleting the column of numbers (from the left margin up to, but > not including, the s in "sub" at top and the last } at bottom) and > setting 'filetype' to perl, I see

Re: syntax borked

2006-09-05 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It appears there is a bug in the syntax file (see reply by Peter Hodge). > This brings up the question: How to install a syntax file without > poluting the distribution system? In gentoo, the file is (for version > 6.4): &

Syntax question regarding \%[

2006-09-05 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, Given the following text: inte integ intege integer inter interv interva interval is there any easy way to make these two commands work? syntax match Error /int\%[eger]/ syntax match Error /int\%[erval]/ The second match begins taking priority as soon as the word

Re: Syntax question regarding \%[

2006-09-06 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello everyone, Thank you for your help ... > > syn keyword Error inte[ger] inte[rval] > Unfortunately I need to use matches because the 'words' contain the '.' character, and I also need to be able to use a look-behind assertion. The thing is, I wanted to be able to write each match so that

Re: Syntax question regarding \%[

2006-09-06 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, --- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, it matches a part-word. Try adding an end-of-word pattern atom \> > before the ending slash (but after the ending bracket) on each line. You > wouldn't want "session.cookie_nomatch" to be matched as far as > "session.cookie_" woul

Re: question about syntax highlighting

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, --- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have found a colorscheme which satisfies you "almost, but not > completely", copy it to ~/.vim/colors/ under a different name (ending in > .vim) and modify it there. Then you can set gui=bold for Function or > cFunction in your

+clientserver on Mac OS X

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, Is it possible to run the clientserver feature on Mac OS X? I cannot see anywhere in the help that directly states that clientserver only runs on Windows or X11. regards, Peter regards, Peter On Yahoo!7 Answers: 25

Re: question about syntax highlighting

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, > > Does this actually work for you? IIRC, "after" colorschemes didn't work > for me, so I concluded that ":colorscheme foobar" is equivalent to > ":runtime colors/foobar.vim" not ":runtime! colors/foobar.vim". > I'm not quite sure what you mean. 'after' colorschemes had never worked

How do I get back the old insert-completion behaviour?

2006-09-11 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, In Vim 6.2, insert-completion would start when I type or , but it would stop as soon as I used typed another letter or pressed backspace. Now in Vim 7, when I type or another character, insert-completion does a 'refresh' to give me the complete list of ... er, completions. While this ma

Re: Counts for mapping

2006-09-11 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :nnoremap = @='3l' > Thank you! I've been trying to figure out how to do that for 2 years. cheers, Peter Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Dating: Get busy flirting with your 7-day fr

Re: Two """problems"""

2006-09-13 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, --- Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1.) Splitting line into two from normal mode. > My current "concept" (hu...great word...;) to split a line into > two is (starting and ending in normal mode, which is wanted): > > i Ctrl-j > > A

Re: Two """problems"""

2006-09-13 Thread Peter Hodge
> Do you have more of these multi-solver tips > for me, Peter ??? :))) The Vim Book (http://iccf-holland.org/click5.html#oualline) will get you up to speed quickly on most of Vim's important features, and teach you how to use some important tools you might miss otherwise. Most complex commands ca

Re: Two """problems"""

2006-09-14 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Andrea Spadaccini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well.. the vim book is for vim 5.7.. Are there any plans to make a new > version for vim 7.x? > > I would buy it if only it was up-to-date! :) > Many of Vim's best features were included in 5.7. It is still a great book to get you from a nov

Re: find word under cursor

2006-09-16 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, What * picks up depends on the value of the 'iskeyword' option. It seems as though your value of 'iskeyword' is including '('. Try ':set isk-=('. Also have a look at ':set iskeyword?' and ':help iskeyword'. regards, Peter --- Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: glued Cursor trick anyone ?

2006-09-19 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to accomplish three "tricks": > > 1.) Suppose you have a source code and have started an new search >task recently. With "n" you are jumping from match to >match. Sometimes the "next match" is right on the la

Re: Spell and Perl source highlighting

2006-09-28 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, > Finally, when spell check is enabled and syntax highlighting is also > enabled, there vim is highlighting some text in a way that the > foreground and background colors are the same -- so the text vanishes > from view. Maybe the solution is to not have syntax and spell > highlighting ena

Re: Colorschemes Need Updating

2006-10-01 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, > I found no way to change Gvim's default highlighting for > these groups. What I found is a mapping of the groups to > group names in the setting 'highlight'. I believe you're supposed to change these default mappings in your .vimrc file, but unfortunately your changes will get lost as s

BUG? getchar(0) and getchar(1) do not detect

2006-10-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello all, I am having trouble with getchar() detecting . If I use getchar(0) or getchar(1), it will not pick up an keystroke. You can replicate this by using the command: :sleep 3 | echo getchar(0) ... and pressing quickly before the getchar() function is called. In GUI Vim, I correctly

Re: Local scope ?

2006-10-03 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, > Hi, > > when writing a function in vim script sometimes it makes sense to > change options of vim. > > Are these changes local to the function ? No, they persist after the function is ended. As a simple example, you could use a function like the following to toggle the 'number' opt

Re: Replacing '%' in a text file

2006-10-09 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, --- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam wrote: > > I have to replace every occurrence of % in a file with > > % |. I have been effectively replacing text using the > > following construct: > > > > :%s/\/replacement/g > > > > However when I try to do the

Re: Shading alternating patterns.

2006-10-10 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello Aaron, You could do something like this: syn match Sel1 /^\.selector/ nextgroup=Items1 skipwhite syn region Items1 start=/{/ end=/}/ contained keepend \ nextgroup=Sel2 skipwhite skipempty hi Sel1 guibg=#44 hi Items1 guibg=#44 syn match Sel2 /^\.selector/ containe

Re: syntax highlighting not working when loading a session

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello Kamaraju, The distributed ftplugin file for fortran sets a variable called 'b:fortran_fixed_source' to let the syntax file know how to highlight. The 'bad highlighting' is because the ftplugin file isn't being executed (for some reason?) and so the syntax defaults to using wrong highlightin

Re: syntax highlighting - a separate colour for each word

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, You'll need to use syntax commands, and you may need to open up the colour viewer while you're setting these up. First, to highlight some words using the existing color groups: syn keyword Function containedin=ALL word1 word2 syn keyword Statement containedin=ALL word3 word4 syn ke

Re: syntax highlighting not working when loading a session

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Hodge
all .f90 files: + let s:extfname = expand("%:e") + if s:extfname ==? "f90" + let b:fortran_fixed_source = 0 + else + let b:fortran_fixed_source = 1 + endif regards, Peter --- Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:31

Re: syntax highlighting not working when loading a session

2006-10-11 Thread Peter Hodge
> > Thanks a lot. Your solution works perfectly. One small question. In my > previous .vimrc, I had this varible called fortran_free_source. Do I need to > worry about it in ~/.vim/ftplugin/fortran.vim or can I just forget about its > existence completely? It shouldn't exist any more once you

Re: Planet Vim

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Panos Laganakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I searched the archives, but didn't find any reference to this. Google can't find it either, so therefore it can't exist. > Are there enough people out there users/developers that blog about Vim? Personally I don't think so, but one way is to set

Re: VimL and Exuberant tags - Suggestions please

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello David, Can I suggest support for these commands: :set/setlocal/setglobal :syntax :highlight (and maybe :HiLink because it is so commonly used) Some examples: set foldmethod=syntax setlocal formatoptions+=roq setglobal completeopt-=preview syntax keyword phpFunction ... sy

Re: cursor moves back with ESC

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/16/06, Lev Lvovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, > > the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing > > escape. What's the reason behind this,

Re: substitude, write and close with one command

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Tomas Lovetinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I would like to ask you for help with my problem. I think it is simple but in > fact I'm not able to > find the solution as quickly as I need. > I need to do sometink like > :s/a/b/g :wq > It means to substitute, write and close file. Hello

Re: replace using variable

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Akbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have these words: > > 1. I am good > 2. You sucks! > 3. Take that, moron > > I want to change those sentences into: > 1. I am good > 2. You sucks! > 3. Take that, moron > > How do I do that using vim replace command? > All I can think is this: > :%

Re: How to find a file.

2006-10-16 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Zheng Da <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. > I want to use the command "find". For example I want to open the file > space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be > in the current directory, or the

Re: Contextual 'iskeyword'?

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Benji Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:43:08AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > > In some text, I've got compound words separated by a single > > hyphen. For convenience of yanking, I've added the hyphen to my > > iskeyword setting which works nicely for the most part

Re: Mapping doesn't work in putty.

2006-10-17 Thread Peter Hodge
Perhaps you could use: map [ctrl-v][ctrl-left] :tabp map [ctrl-v][ctrl-right] :tabn Except instead of typing 'ctrl-v' and 'ctrl-left' literally, you type those combinations instead. This will map the exact escape sequences that your terminal is sending. regards, Peter --- J A G P R E E T

Re: Fighting with comments

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-10-18, eric1235711 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yakov Lerner-3 wrote: > > > > > > On 10/18/06, eric1235711 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hello > > >> > > >> I´m PHP programmer and I started programming in gVim last weak, and I

BUG: formatoptions+=t makes comments wrap (incorrectly) when they shouldn't

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, When I have formatoptions=t, it makes comment lines wrap when they shouldn't, and it also ignores whatever comment leader is defined in 'comments'. To reproduce: :set formatoptions=roc :set comments=b:% :set textwidth=30 % type these lines of text % as one line, and notice %

Re: Match something that not in the pattern

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Peng Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following file segments. I want to concatenate all the > lines with their next lines, except that it ends with "}}". I want to > use the pattern "\(}}\)[EMAIL PROTECTED]". It seems not working. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the look-ahead asser

Re: What's the exact meaning of the set 'background'?

2006-10-18 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, If you change the background=light, Vim reloads the colorscheme so it has a chance to give you new colors. But if the colorscheme changes background=dark again, then Vim knows that the colorscheme isn't capable of picking colors for a light background. In that case, Vim will just ignore w

Re: BUG: formatoptions+=t makes comments wrap (incorrectly) when they shouldn't

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter Hodge wrote: > > > When I have formatoptions=t, it makes comment lines wrap when they > > shouldn't, and it also ignores whatever comment leader is defined in > > 'comments'. To r

Spam on vim.org

2006-10-22 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, Can the person responsible please remove this spam from vim.org? http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1367 regards, Peter Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!7 Time Capsule - Make your mark and be a part of history http://www.ya

Bold font in OS X GUI?

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, I am having trouble with OS X GUI, none of the highlighting is in Bold. Is this a Bug, or does Bold font just not work in the OS X gui? regards, peter On Yahoo!7 Want to make technology work harder for your busines

Re: Bold font in OS X GUI?

2006-10-24 Thread Peter Hodge
--- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Hodge wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am having trouble with OS X GUI, none of the highlighting is in Bold. Is > > this a Bug, or does Bold font just not work in the OS X gui? > > > > re

Re: Need to write a language

2006-10-25 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Billy Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the semiconductor industry. My job is to create data and to run > regression tests on that data for the validation of physical layout rules. > > Skip to bottom for questions, if you don't want to read my ramblings. > > > The current problem

Re: Key mapping on "," and "." with "CTRL"

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, I think it depends on what your terminal can understand. One way you can find it out is to type ':map ' (using command mode), then press CTRL-V and then the key sequence you want to map. For example, to map CTRL-L you could use ':map '. regards, Peter --- Zhaojun WU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Agonized by "auto changed cursor to next line when typing".

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Shark Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was agonized by GVim 7.0, the editor always auto changed my cursor > to next line, when I typed > with long line ( less than the wrap margin ) or end tag element, such > as "". > > the following is my vimrc, you could see that I had disabled

Re: vim.org refreshed mockup

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Ricardo SIGNES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Panos Laganakos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-07T12:59:57] > > I made a mockup of a refreshed version of vim.org, trying to maintain > > as much of the original look as possible: > > > > http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/vimorg-01.png > > > > vim

Re: grep.vim support

2006-11-09 Thread Peter Hodge
--- "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Gabriel wrote: > >> On 11/9/06, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Neil Gabriel wrote: > >> > > I did in fact look at that. Reading through the "internal" grep > >> > > however, I do not see a way of running a recursive search

Re: Checking an option

2006-11-13 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, The 'no{option}' options aren't really options, that's just a way of turning them off. You can use: if ! &startofline (do something) endif regards, Peter --- Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > in a script I want to to something like: > > if

Re: yank and put 'over' instead of 'insert'

2006-11-14 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Troy Piggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > Troy Piggins wrote: > > >I use 'R' replace mode when doing, for example, ascii art etc > > >because it allows me to change characters without affecting the > > >layout of the rest of the window/page. > > > >

Re: compile code from within vim

2006-11-26 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, Probably the most straightforward way to do this in your ~/.vimrc file: nnoremap :call CompileScript() function! CompileScript() " the name of the current file let fname = expand('%') " can't compile unless the file is saved if &modified echo printf('Please sav

Re: I look for php abbreviations configuration script...

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, What does a 'php abbreviations configuration script' do? regards, Peter --- KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I look for php abbreviations configuration script. There aren't ? > > Thanks > Stephane > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messen

Re: an uncomfortable thing

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Ronald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new. > Usually when I am in command mode (I mean when I pressed ESC), the > cursor shape becomes a block, it is well that when I press `i' or `a' > the cursor will become a bar at the left or right side of the block. > But here is a problem, when I wan

Re: I look for php abbreviations configuration script...

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Hodge
gt; 2006/11/28, Peter Hodge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > > > What does a 'php abbreviations configuration script' do? > > > > regards, > > Peter > > > > > > --- KLEIN Stéphane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: finding extra { braces

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello Yakov, One way is to have Vim fold the { } regions. I think this is already set up in the C syntax, so you just need to ':set foldmethod=syntax'. You may also want to ':set foldcolumn=4' (or whatever number works for you). Note how the left side of the display shows you where each fold (e

Re: Matching JUST the nth occurence of a text in a line

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, Try: /^.\{-}home.\{-}\zshome for your reference: \{-} makes the '.' match as little as possible \zs makes the search match begin at this point in the pattern regards, Peter --- zzapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi given a sample text below > > home > > home gg home xxx >

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