RE: VIM console failure on Windows

2015-10-30 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
he console buffer would also need this. >From version6.txt: Win32: Console version didn't work on telnet, because of switching between two console screens. Now use one console screen and save/restore the contents when needed. (Craig Barkhouse) -- -- You received this message from the "

RE: [patch] add sortuniq() function

2014-03-24 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Bram said: Thanks. I'll add it in the todo list. Although we may add uniq() instead. Consistancy with Unix is useful. I just wanted to weigh in on the idea of adding uniq() instead of sortuniq(). The modularity of Unix commands is great and all, but when working with big data sets you

RE: 'backupcopy' and Windows Vista symbolic links

2011-07-20 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
-Original Message- From: vim_dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_dev@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin Fritz Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:02 AM To: Bram Moolenaar Cc: vim_dev Subject: Re: 'backupcopy' and Windows Vista symbolic links On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Bram

RE: windows bug: filewritable() returns 0 if we use it on the current script being read

2010-11-03 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Phillippe Vaucher wrote: I'm pretty sure you nomally WANT to lock a file from being written, while you are executing its contents as a script. It sounds like this is what is happening. Is there some reason you want to write the file while executing it? This bug arised from a script

RE: Windows DLL bug?

2010-09-27 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Gist is that the Windows DLL loading process searches the current directory, unless specifically instructed not to. (Idiotic.) It's not idiotic that the current directory would be somewhere in the search order. Note that the search order also includes searching the

RE: Mouse control in a Quick Edit mode Windows console

2010-09-01 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
On Aug 13, 10:35 pm, Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: What system has this mode?  My XP system only has Edit/Mark, Edit/Paste and thelike. Thank you for your quick answer. I have Windows XP SP3 (French version). Clicking the C:\ icon at the left top corner of a cmd.exe console

RE: Windows 7 64bit - use 32bit or 64bit Vim?

2010-04-26 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
George V. Reilly said: I think a better solution would be a smarter Windows installer for Vim which included Win32 and Win64 copies of gvimext.dll and a Win32 gvim.exe, that installed the appropriate flavor of the shell extension DLL. There are still a few reasons why one might want a native

RE: POSSIBLE BUG (WIN32): Cursor movement slow editing network file - autocmd CursorMoved results in multiple calls to CreateFile

2010-02-19 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
WiggyWare said: So my question is: Why does VIM create a file in every directory along the path of the edited file? Secondly, is there a way to disable this behavior? VIM is not creating a file in those directories. In Windows, the CreateFile() API is used to open a file handle, whether

RE: Problem with 'hidden' and :bufdo

2009-11-25 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
-Original Message- From: vim_dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Christian Brabandt Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:38 PM To: vim_dev@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Problem with 'hidden' and :bufdo On Wed, November 25, 2009 2:49 am, Craig

Problem with 'hidden' and :bufdo

2009-11-24 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Hi all, I've had some occasions where I've been editing multiple files at once, and for some reason some of the files did not get syntax highlighting turned on. I could never really pinpoint the circumstances until today when I decided to use a binary search approach to track down what it

RE: Vim creates files named 4913, why?

2009-11-05 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
-Original Message- From: vim_dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Arve Knudsen Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:25 AM To: vim_dev Subject: Re: Vim creates files named 4913, why? Hi Yakov On 28 Okt, 07:47, Yakov Lerner iler...@gmail.com

RE: Vim creates files named 4913, why?

2009-10-21 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
-Original Message- From: vim_dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Arve Knudsen Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:21 AM To: vim_dev Subject: Re: Vim creates files named 4913, why? On 21 Okt, 17:13, James Vega james...@jamessan.com wrote: On

RE: found a little bug when install in freedos

2009-09-25 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
-Original Message- From: vim_dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:vim_...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dalfa Zen Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:00 AM To: vim_dev Subject: Bug: found a little bug when install in freedos Hello everyone, I don't know if this has already been done

RE: Bug report: Editing file in %system32% leads to creating file in c:\windows\Syswow64

2009-07-15 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Bram wrote: And how do we make this work on older systems and older compilers? Well it is only an issue when using the 32-bit Vim on 64-bit Windows, and the API is available on all 64-bit Windows versions (XP64 and later). To have the same 32-bit Vim binary be maximally portable to even older

RE: Bug report: Editing file in %system32% leads to creating file in c:\windows\Syswow64

2009-07-14 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Jul 13 23:01, K L wrote: Hi Tony, I used cmd.exe as administrator. I don't think its a permission issue. Because the bug reproducing steps, I can use notepad to create ddd.txt in %system32%. I can reproduce the bug on Vista and Win 7, both on x64.

RE: PATCH: Completion for find and sfind arguments (todo.txt)

2009-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Ben Fritz said: Well...Windows doesn't have symbolic links. But, it does have the possibility of hard links. Are those handled, too, on Unix? Windows definitely does have symbolic links, starting with Vista. (See: mklink /?) There are also junctions, which are like symbolic links but only

RE: mysterious unc path issue on windows

2009-02-08 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Hugo Ahlenius said: Long story short - on this machine everything works fine, but accessing files with a UNC-path (\\computer\share\file) in vim/gvim (tried both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, from 7.2 and back to 5.8) bogs vim down - locks up for 2 minutes or so. Everything else works as it

Possible bug in ]] and [[

2009-01-28 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
I have some C source files that has a few page breaks (^L control characters) sprinkled throughout it, presumably so it will look nicer if printed out. When I use ]] and [[ to skip to the next/previous function, Vim not only stops at { characters in column 1, but also the aforementioned page

RE: Possible bug in ]] and [[

2009-01-28 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Andy wrote: Intended. For ]] , help says [count] sections forward or :h section A section begins after a form-feed (C-L) in the first column ... Ah, I see. It would be great to add a (see |section|) to the help text. I'll work around this using mappings. Thanks, Craig

RE: bad default shellxquote in Widows

2008-11-11 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Tony wrote: To avoid passing a path with spaces in it, use the short form of the path, such as %:p:8 (this works only on Windows -- on Unix you can just backslash-escape the spaces). This will convert the path so that Program Files becomes PROGRA~1, My Documents MYDOCU~1 and, I think, Copy

RE: New feature: cursor at the beginning of tab character in normal mode

2008-10-02 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Not to take sides, but just to add my comments... 1) In normal mode, if you have the 'list' option on, the cursor is displayed at the beginning of the tab character, not the end. So now it's not just mode that determines it. If you sit your cursor on a tab character and repeatedly toggle

RE: VIM and NTFS streams

2008-01-31 Fir de Conversatie Craig Barkhouse
Alexei Alexandrov wrote: 2 notes here: 1. I think NTFS streams is useless feature. I've never seen any practical example of the usefulness of this. For my own purposes, I agree. However, some users and some applications will find uses for streams (same can be said of any feature). It