Re: Does it still make sense to have per-file/-type maintainers? [Was: Re: Added support for spell checking in runtime/syntax/ocaml.vim]

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Thilo Six
Hello Benjamin, Excerpt from Benjamin R. Haskell: -- snip -- I concur completely that a team of runtime file maintainers sounds better. Back in January, I started composing an email wondering whether having maintainers still made sense as a development model. (Personally, I also find it

Re: Does it still make sense to have per-file/-type maintainers? [Was: Re: Added support for spell checking in runtime/syntax/ocaml.vim]

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Thilo Six
-- snip -- IIRC a maintainer has committed himself to be reachable via email 3 years after his last change. (I must have read that in vim help somewhere, but need to seek that out again first where exactly that was). This is a good read: :h develop.txt though it does no contain that

updated uil.vim

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Thomas Köhler
Dear Bram, I have updated the uil.vim syntax file. Thanks to Dominique Pellé for the patch which adds propper support for spell checking using @Spell. Kind regards, Thomas Köhler -- Thomas Köhler Email: jean-...@picard.franken.de WWW:

Re: Does it still make sense to have per-file/-type maintainers? [Was: Re: Added support for spell checking in runtime/syntax/ocaml.vim]

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Dominique Pellé
Benjamin R. Haskell v...@benizi.com wrote: [...] On Sat, 12 May 2012, Thilo Six wrote: [...] That is exactlx what i think about the current practice, too.  Really i think instead of that single-point-of-failure modell of maintenance we should move the a team maintenance of runtimefiles.  

Re: Lost file using Vim (first time ever in 15 years)

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Bram, On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Sergey Khorev wrote: Can someone write a clean statement of the problem (the file contents and the commands that led to the behaviour that was unexpected). Just the facts, without opinions on Vim or users. This is how I managed to reproduce. Create a file:

Re: Does it still make sense to have per-file/-type maintainers? [Was: Re: Added support for spell checking in runtime/syntax/ocaml.vim]

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Thilo Six
Hello Dominique, Excerpt from Dominique Pellé: -- snip -- Some statistics: I've contacted the maintainers of 15 syntax files this weekend to add spelling checker support. The stats so far are: - 4 responses received from maintainers of awk, forth, ocaml, scheme (thanks!); - 6 emails

Re: Does it still make sense to have per-file/-type maintainers? [Was: Re: Added support for spell checking in runtime/syntax/ocaml.vim]

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Thilo Six
Hello Thomas, I answer on list. Excerpt from Thomas Köhler: -- snip -- And it would help people like me that used to maintain some runtime files in the past and now are stuck maintaining something they don't use any longer. I think that is exactly the meaning of team maintenance. I commit

Re: Lost file using Vim (first time ever in 15 years)

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Hi Gary! On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2012-05-14, Christian Brabandt wrote: This patch fixes a data conversion error, that leads to a data loss. Problem is, that open() is done, even though it is not clear, conversion will work. So this patch runs buf_write_bytes()

Re: Extended eval API (was: [patch] Extended python support: python types binded to vim structures)

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
ZyX wrote: Any news on the status of the patch? It's in the todo list at line 164: Patch for Python: add pyeval()(zyx, 2012 Apr 15, update Apr 16) Also changes for Lua. Update Apr 19. Update Apr 22. That's the one, right? I didn't have time for Vim last week, and this week is going to be

Re: [patch] Crash in f_readfile(...) when building Vim with -DMEM_PROFILE

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Dominique Pelle wrote: Vim calls realloc(NULL, size) which is fine in ANSI C: calling it with NULL as first argument is equivalent to calling malloc(size). However, it causes a crash when compiling Vim with -DMEM_PROFILE since function mem_realloc(ptr, size) does not handle NULL as first

Re: updated uil.vim

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Bram Moolenaar
Thomas Köhler wrote: I have updated the uil.vim syntax file. Thanks to Dominique Pellé for the patch which adds propper support for spell checking using @Spell. Thanks, I'll include it soon. -- System administrators are just like women: You can't live with them and you can't live without

Re: Lost file using Vim (first time ever in 15 years)

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
On Monday, May 14, 2012 1:34:52 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote: How much slower is it for a file large enough that the write times are more than a second? I don't think we want to noticeably slow down Vim for everyone all the time in order to more-conveniently avoid an error that is

C++ Syntax Highlighting Bug

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie nacitar sevaht
This is subtle, but I noticed it toying around with some metaprogramming things.. True is highlighted as if it's a keyword, though it is not. true is indeed a keyword, however, and should be hilighted.. but it is erroneous to highlight True. The same can be said of False. P.S.: :h bugs This

z/OS Make-File and Configure Script Patches ??

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Bovy, Stephen
Hi, I have a final done-done set of changes that will fully support The most-current version of z/OS with Motif 2.1 and feature-toolbar support Works great and looks beautiful !! Bram, Would you like me to re-submit a consolidated version ??? Also I have discovered a problem in the

Auto-enabling syntax highlighting if we can guess Vim's background color

2012-05-14 Fir de Conversatie Jason A . Spiro
Thank you very much for your work on Vim. In certain cases, Vim can quite-reliably guess the background color: - On rxvt and its derivatives. (See src/option.c:term_bg_default(), viewable online at http://code.google.com/p/vim/source/search?q=^term_bg_default().) - When the GUI is