RE: setpos() and up = wrong position

2013-08-19 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Dimitar DIMITROV wrote: Now try :ec getpos('.') - [0, 4, 17, 0] Move away and :call setpos('.',[0,4,17,0]) If you use up down k or j you will not move just above/below the char but in some weird location Say the cursor is in column 20, then setpos() is used to jump to [d], then k is pressed.

RE: Problem with Corel copyright

2013-11-01 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: I got pointed at a copyright notice in the $VIMRUNTIME/vimlogo.eps file. That's because the file was generated by Corel Draw and includes some stuff apparently written by Corel. To avoid a discussion about whether distribution is OK, perhaps someone can take the Vim

RE: Plugin manager

2014-01-02 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Fritz wrote: Because my workplace's IT somehow blocks access to github and other places when using git tools but not when using a browser. I can download an archive from github when I point my browser to the project webpage but git clone/fetch/pull all fail. You know about $http_proxy

RE: Plugin manager

2014-01-02 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Fritz wrote: You know about $http_proxy (or some other method of telling the tool about your proxy server)? Nope, never heard of such a thing. But I actually never use git except for getting Vim plugins. At one point I could access Hg and git repositories just fine, but not SVN. Sure,

RE: Rgrep not working on vim 64-bit, win7

2014-01-13 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
lazureus wrote: I'm encountering some similar problems as Dariusz have seen however on the 64-bit Ubuntu. Trying to run :Rgrep from VIM I get following error message : Error detected while processing function SNR19_RunGrepRecursive..SNR19_RunGrepCmd: line 20: E484: Can't open file

RE: Rgrep not working on vim 64-bit, win7

2014-01-14 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
It looks like the wiki has had the answer since March 2013: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Script:311 That is linked in the top line at: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=311 I have not used the plugin, but what is written at the above looks exactly what is needed to fix the error

RE: Is Vim Applying for the 2014 Google Summer of Code? (was Is Vim Applying for the 2013 Google Summer of Code?)

2014-02-05 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Lech Lorens wrote: Would anyone else volunteer as a mentor? For GSOC2012, Bram needed another person to register with Google, and I was that person. I would be happy to do that again if wanted. I could act as a coordinator to check that things are ok for student(s) and mentor(s), and raise

RE: global command slow when clipboard=unnamed

2014-05-29 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
It's a bit hard to see the excellent advice in that last post, so here it is: To delete (not cut) all lines matching pattern use: :g/pattern/d_ John -- -- You received this message from the vim_dev maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more

RE: New digraph

2014-06-17 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Christian Brabandt wrote: With the release of the Unicode version 7.0 yesterday, the rouble sign has been assigned U+20BD. It probably makes sense to update all the generated unicode data in the Vim source however. Can I hijack this to ask about U+2022 which is a nice bullet. One way to

RE: [patch] new cpo setting to make n/N search in the same direction

2013-02-18 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: This is what the attached patch enables, by adding the new flag 'N' to the 'cpo' setting. Well, instead of adding an option, what about: :noremap n /CR :noremap N ?CR The option would be much better! I sometimes map n and N to add zz so the hit is in the

RE: [patch] new cpo setting to make n/N search in the same direction

2013-02-18 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Gary Johnson wrote: Won't that break any plugins that use 'n' or 'N' after a reverse search? I agree that the proposed behavior would be less confusing than the current behavior, but changing it in any way that would break existing scripts seems like a non-starter. There are times when

RE: [patch] new cpo setting to make n/N search in the same direction

2013-02-18 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Michael Henry wrote: I've always been confused by the behavior of n and N after backward searches. The only work-around my brain can handle is to simply avoid backward searches entirely; instead, I search forward and press N. Agreed. That's usually how I resolve the problem as well.

RE: [patch] Move base Windows support to WinXP

2013-03-19 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar So how about this: 7.4.000 will be released with MS-Windows binaries that still support the old systems. Once it's out and it looks OK we drop support for older systems. That way 7.4 is what needs to be used for old systems. It includes a lot of bug fixes since the last

RE: [patch] Move base Windows support to WinXP

2013-03-19 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Roland Eggner wrote: Prior to dropping support for w2k please consider: (1) w2k is known to be the least faulty OS version released by its vendor so far, because the phrase based on NT was a lot more than just an advertising, the development history of this OS version differed significantly

RE: www.vim.org is down

2013-04-30 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Yes, the database appears to be down. They upgraded the project recently, but I have no reason to assume this is related. Please check the sourceforge site for any known problems. Or file a support ticket. I'm afraid I don't have time right now to look into it. The

RE: www.vim.org is down

2013-04-30 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Please check the sourceforge site for any known problems. Or file a support ticket. I've poked around and can't find anything, so I have filed a support ticket: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/3872/ John -- -- You received this message from the vim_dev

RE: www.vim.org is down

2013-04-30 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
The vim.org problem has been fixed by Sourceforge. However, my checking of some recent changes to the vim.org database shows that vim.org was scanned by someone with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner. That was used to generate at least 124 user accounts, including text fields intended to probe

Glitch in msvc2010.bat

2013-06-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
I wanted to update our tip[1] on building Vim in Windows with Visual Studio to use VS 2012 Express, as well as VSE2010. While doing that I noticed that there is a double percent (%%) in two batch files, and I'm pretty sure it is wrong. The extra percent is ignored, so nothing bad happens, but if

RE: Patch to fix read out of bound when resizing terminal

2007-08-31 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Dominique Pelle wrote: I'm wondering why I see two copies of your message. Did it happen for just one of my email? or all of my emails? I sent emails to vim_dev at googlegroups.com, without BCC or CC, using gmail (web interface). If it happened for just one email, can you precise which

RE: Compiler warnings (gui_gtk_x11.c)

2007-10-01 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: gui_gtk_x11.c:3418: warning: not enough variable arguments to fit a sentinel The function definition that is in gnome-program.h looks like this: GnomeProgram * gnome_program_init (const char *app_id, const char *app_version, const GnomeModuleInfo

RE: Bug in FAQ at http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl

2008-01-02 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Richard Hartmann wrote: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/vimfaq2html3.pl at 32.1: -$ stty -ixon -xoff +$ stty -ixon -ixoff Three months ago Yegappan Lakshmanan asked me to put the FAQ on the Vim Tips wiki. He referred me to the txt and html versions:

RE: Setting guifont from a modeline

2008-01-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Tony Mechelynck wrote: What does everyone think about making guifont unsettable from the modeline? It is a global option, after all. I just don't think it makes that much sense to be set from the modeline. It is a global option, but if you know what you're doing it may sometimes be useful

RE: Setting guifont from a modeline

2008-01-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Richard Hartmann wrote: For your own sites, you can do something like this: This function will check if VIM finds modelines and, if yes, will let you choose if you want to execute them. ... Thanks. I remember seeing something similar last time this was discussed. For anyone interested,

RE: :sign - bug/feature_request?

2008-02-15 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Milan Vancura wrote: I'm not sure how frequent is the usage of signs today, but if they are to be used more frequently, new functions for handling them (and using that functions in mksession) would be a good idea (including a possibility to clear signs in one file/buffer). Do you agree?

RE: Can't get 'titlestring' to work using a function

2008-02-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Zdenek Sekera wrote: there can be no unescaped whitespace after the '=', (where is that in the doc)? :help option-backslash I'm afraid I can't help with the substance of your question, but I see that the docs for titlestring don't say that =%! should work like it does in statusline. For

RE: Patch to try out: floating point

2008-04-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Now the patch is attached, hopefully that works better. The file diff.dat that you just attached, and your earlier inline mail are the same. In both cases, there is a problem: the last 12 lines should be omitted (you can see they are a slightly broken duplicate of the

RE: Patch to try out: floating point

2008-04-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Tony Mechelynck wrote: 12 extra lines at the end shouldn't be a problem, since the patch program will ignore garbage before and after the patch proper. I was just trying to let Bram know that it would look better if he fixed the patch (by deleting the last 12 lines), if he were planning to

RE: Patch to try out: floating point

2008-04-10 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bill McCarthy wrote: I want +float - how do I make that happen? One simple method is to add the following line to src/feature.h #define FEAT_FLOAT You could probably do that anywhere, but just after the section with #if relating to FEAT_FLOAT is probably a good place. I would welcome a less

RE: Patch to try out: floating point

2008-04-10 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bill McCarthy wrote: I think the correct way to pass the requested feature without editing feature.h is: make DEFS=-DFEAT_FLOAT Thanks John but that didn't work here... If you're using Make_mvc.mak, the command is: nmake -f Make_mvc.mak DEFINES=-DFEAT_FLOAT Looking at the make file, it

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-04-13 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Here is an update for the floating point patch. The 'g' argument for printf() was implemented and a few bug fixes. I have compiled with this updated floating point patch under win32. Here are some issues you might like to address. os_win32.h now has '#define HAVE_POW'

RE: GSOC: On-the-fly Code Checking for Vim - Challenges

2008-04-13 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
hermitte wrote: I'm not sure how many people are interested in on-the-fly compilation. I'm not really because I program mainly in C++, and my experience demonstrates that after the first error it is not uncommon to have the compiler completely lost. Thus I know this will be a very

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-04-13 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Here is an update for the floating point patch. I've done a bit more testing with the latest floating point patch. Vim's floating point doesn't need to cover all extremes, but the following shows some bad results. :help floating-point-format (in eval.txt) It says

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-04-15 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Second, the lhs and rhs of the '.' can each overflow an integer, giving chaos. :let a=str2float('0.3111222333') :echo a Result: -0.118374 How do you suggest to fix this? I still think that using strtod() would be best, but curiosity got the better of me and I

RE: bufdo e turns off syntax highlighting

2008-04-18 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Probably a minor bug: doing :bufdo e turns off syntax highlighting in hidden buffers. for a in a.c b.c c.c ; do echo struct $a ; done vim *.c :set hidden :silent bufdo e 2c-^ I believe this unhappy behaviour is due to the following info from ':help bufdo':

RE: Introduction. I am the new gsoc student for bug fixing.

2008-04-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ian Kelling wrote: I just wanted to say hi and introduce myself. My name is Ian Kelling and I attend San Diego State University in California, USA. I am very much looking forward to this summer and very excited about contributing and getting to know vim more intimately. Its something I

RE: UTF-8 bomb showing up after :%!sort

2008-05-17 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Adri Verhoef wrote: I think there is a problem here, namely that the BOM (Byte Order Mark, see :help 'bomb') is transferred to the shell command, when it shouldn't. In my opinion Vim should be able to temporarily remove the BOM, then execute the shell command, and finally place the BOM

RE: vimdiff with one non-existent and one existent file does not show contents ?

2008-05-27 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Yakov Lerner wrote: cd /tmp rm -f nosuchfile # make sure there is no such file man 1 ls ls.txt # get some text vimdiff -U NONE -u NONE ls.txt nosuchfile # as expected vimdiff -U NONE -u NONE nosuchfile ls.txt # where is contents of right pane ??? On my system, the text is present in the

RE: Floating point syntax

2008-06-05 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bill McCarthy wrote: My eval.c is the current release patched by both your latest and John Beckett's fix. You new patch fails with: vim\vimfp patch -b -p 0 -i Brams-may_not_work_with_jb.diff patching file src/eval.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 4799. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-06-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Attached you will find the latest floating point patch. Thanks Bram. I have patched and compiled without incident. A few tests, and a superficial look at the code changes, make me believe that the new float patch is good. As discussed, using strtod() is much more robust.

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-06-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Mikolaj Machowski wrote: echo printf(%.0f, 0.4) E807: expected Float argument for printf() You mean (argument not a string): :echo printf(%.0f, 0.4) echo printf(%d, 4-2) Same glitch. It's 4-2 not 4-2. user friendly (eg. store and display 0.5 instead of 0.50) Here is a workaround:

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-06-10 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: I mean: Vim is using the library printf() to do the conversion, but I don't see a way to tell printf() to omit superfluous zeroes. g and G omit superfluos zeroes, as well as the decimal point: double n = 12; printf(%g\n, n); // prints 12 printf(%#g\n, n); //

RE: Updated floating point patch

2008-06-11 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: g and G omit superfluos zeroes, as well as the decimal point: double n = 12; printf(%g\n, n); // prints 12 printf(%#g\n, n); // prints 12. Vim is already using %g. For me the results are different. In Vim, the code in vim_snprintf() (in message.c)

RE: Newly updated floating point patch

2008-06-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: OK, so Borland doesn't have round() and trunc(). I rather not have a Vim version with only part of the floating point support. The easy solution is to disable it for Borland in src/feature.h: #ifdef FEAT_NORMAL # define FEAT_EVAL # if

RE: Newly updated floating point patch

2008-06-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: - Added a test. Please try this, I don't know if roundoff errors might break it. It's a trivial issue, but test65 (floating point) disagrees with Microsoft Visual C MSVC 6.0. Line 11 of test65.in is: :$put =printf('%e', 123.456) Corresponding result expected in

RE: Vim 7.2a in CVS

2008-06-25 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Gautam Iyer wrote: You can wget individual patches from git. For example: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel. git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0deedbcc98a831284f6e9db2510e88e90e01c 286;hp=5dd06d08015cf9c0721f34f7005ecd670025c334 I use the FTP server to get patches

RE: [patch] fixed typos in help files

2008-06-25 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Dominique Pelle wrote: Thanks for Vim-7.2a-beta, so far it looks good. I ran the spelling checker on the help files vim7/runtime/doc/*txt of Vim-7.2a-beta, and found a few minor typos. I attach the patch. I just did a similar check and found a couple more (I missed several of yours!). Put

RE: Vim 7.2a in CVS

2008-06-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Christian MICHON wrote: I also track vim-dev by usually doing this: downloading the patches, and seldom use CVS/SVN. The biggest trouble I see is I need to format patches/suggestions in the same way, if I do not have write commit access. OK but surely that comment is for another

RE: Vim Patches Project. [Was: updated 'relativenumber' patch]

2008-06-30 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Schmidt wrote: As a host I would suggest code google [6], as it has svn access, an issue tracker and a wiki. A link to this project from the official vim site, will be appropriate (with the usual warnings), although not strictly necessary. I too have been thinking for some time that

RE: Five (5) new features request

2008-07-15 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
smu johnson wrote: 3. Perl's =cut pod comments work half the time in Vim's syntax highlighting. It's a compromise between performance and quality. Read: :help :syn-sync 4. Somehow a toggle option so that when you exit out of insert mode, it doesn't automatically move the cursor to the

RE: Vim: Improper Implementation of shellescape()/Arbitrary Code Execution

2008-07-16 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Jan Minár I'm glad to see you persist in finding more problems. I'm sure everybody is... In case there is any doubt, YES we are glad you are finding problems. Thanks very much! I hope Bram won't mind holding back the release of 7.2 to provide a couple more weeks for testing by you (and

RE: CR-used-for-NL

2008-07-16 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Andy Wokula wrote: Minor issue, but somehow confusing: Unix (and DOS (Win)) users know that Vim converts some characters when reading and writing a file: File - Memory - Display NL (NUL) (line break) NUL NL NUL (^@) With ff=mac, Vim does another conversion,

RE: Opening a file as the OS would

2008-08-20 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ingo Karkat wrote: Use :silent ! start %; the 'silent' will close the DOS window immediately. I use this map Leaderx :silent ! start 1 %:pCR to execute the current file. ':p' makes this independent from the CWD, the surrounding make it handle spaces. The 1 is the optional title

RE: Right-align vs right-justify documentation?

2008-08-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Schmidt wrote: Justify means to insert variable-width spacing throughOUt the entire line so the left and right margins are aligned. That's how most books and newspaper articles appear. And 'right justify' sometimes means this too, as it seems it does in the Vim docs, even though it

RE: Bug with v_K and potentially K command

2008-08-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Tony Mechelynck wrote: Maybe you should set a config-time option (or create one) to avoid any interaction with the shell? Even better: If you don't want ever to become the victim of any exploit, turn your computer off at the wall switch and leave it off. :-b I haven't studied this

RE: sort()'s function reference arg

2008-08-25 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Robert Webb wrote: I believe it's the same on all systems. qsort() just compares the sign. Of course it would be impossible to check every qsort() on all systems(), but the fact that strcmp() uses that logic is a pretty good sign (!) that qsort() will as well. However, as others have

RE: reverse recursive .vimrc

2008-08-25 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
fnegroni wrote: It is a feature that I would absolutely love to have: I develop for several projects following different indentation styles and visualisation rules. Some code in your vimrc to detect the current directory at startup, then implement the wanted settings, might be easier. Or,

RE: adding a new feature

2008-09-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ranjeeth P T wrote: Usually when we open an object file( in C i.e.out file ) we get unseen characters So adding the property of objdump will be nice?? Vim is distributed with xxd. The following tip mentions the basics, then presents a more elablorate procedure if you need to use xxd often:

RE: (patch) Lua interface : Borland C++ 5.5.1 test

2008-09-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Mondal, Shishir wrote: I have tried earlier, but could not do that: any one knows definite steps how to unsubscribe from the list? Please report any problem you have when you try the following (report = reply to this mail): Click the link in the footer of the mail: You received this message

RE: Opening files with Unicode names under Windows?

2008-09-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Vadim Zeitlin wrote: So, for example, opening a file Аня.vcf opens the file ???.vcf on my English Windows system. Tony's advice about encoding might fix the situation. I have the following in my vimrc: set encoding=utf-8 and can open a file with the name you mentioned on Windows. The font

RE: Patch to try out: v:oldfiles

2008-09-16 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Now and then I start editing a file and want to go back to a file I edited in a previous edit session. But the name doesn't appear in the marks or buffer list. Still, I know the file name is in the viminfo file. There are plugins for this, but I thought it would

RE: !py import weakref breaks vim

2008-10-04 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Greg Warner wrote: thanks for the feedback. I've confirmed that it's only breaking on one of my builds, and on another it works, so I'm sure it's just a problem with how I'm compiling it. In the bad build, use ':version' to see what it says about Python (near the bottom). Perhaps that

RE: vim 7 ex-mode behavior

2008-10-22 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
d tbsky wrote: after some checking, i found command like below didn't work under vim 7: a 1 \\ 2 \\ . It works here on Vim 7.2 as well, although I had to use help to see how. Use ':help :a' and see what it says about Watch out for lines starting with a backslash. The above lines work,

RE: Patch: ECL if for 7.2

2008-10-25 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Mikael Jansson wrote: I couldn't find an edit link on the Patch page. How do I go about adding it? The Vim Patches page is: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches As discussed in the following thread, a spammer started changing the page so it LOOKED unchanged, but clicking a

RE: Patch: ECL if for 7.2

2008-10-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Mikael Jansson wrote: === #. ECL (Embeddable Common Lisp) Interface Author: Mikael Jansson et al Status: Mostly complete, needs testing Site: http://common-lisp.net/project/limp Implements many, but not all, of the VimScript functions. See the project page for documentation.

RE: Can we still edit the patches list on google groups?

2008-11-06 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Richard Hartmann wrote: Can you add the patch to the list, please? :) Sure but I don't have time to work out what text to put. We need something like the following from http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches 10. Variable tabstops Author: Matthew Winn Status: alpha

RE: Can we still edit the patches list on google groups?

2008-11-06 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Following Richard's suggestion, I added a (shortened) description of Matt Wozniski's patch to: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches Matt: Please reply (to me or the list) if any wording needs to be changed. John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

RE: Oldfiles?

2008-11-08 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bill McCarthy wrote: After updating my runtime today, I noted the command `:ol[dfiles]'. That was for an experimental patch that Bram posted: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/20e72354ed4b2f42 I guess it will be a bit longer before the docs and the released code are

RE: mac-osx and open

2008-11-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Nico Weber wrote: If I remember correctly, you added that about a year ago after I sent you a patch. So I guess the wiki is just outdated. Any chance you could update the tip? I recommend deleting any info that applies only to older Vim (before, say, Vim 7.0, but even 7.1 if it simplifies a

RE: Can we still edit the patches list on google groups?

2008-11-16 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Schmidt wrote: I gave up on SVN ages ago--I would have loved to use it, but it's just too messy. Now I apply patches. Below is the script Eventually I'd like to have a tip (http://vim.wikia.com/) on building Vim, with probably one overview article, and separate articles for downloading,

RE: Can we still edit the patches list on google groups?

2008-11-17 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Richard Hartmann wrote: Can't hurt, all for it. Do you want to include the git howto I sent to the user's list, as well? I can do it myself, just need to know :) Despite the fact that this thread is about the unofficial patches, I was responding to Ben's script that relates to the official

RE: Bug? xterm-function-keys broken

2008-12-14 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Matt Wozniski wrote: For the life of me, I can't seem to get vim to recognize, eg, xHome and Home as separate keycodes. Perhaps the following is an explanation: :help version7 /xHome Previously Home and xHome could be mapped separately. This had the disadvantage that all mappings (with

VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
I should take a little longer checking, but in view of the potential for damage I'm sending a preliminary opinion: A message has just been sent to the vim_multibyte list. Header includes: From: b...@moolenaar.net To: vim-multib...@vim.org Subject: Mail Transaction Failed Date: Thu, 18

RE: Status of breakindent patch

2008-12-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Tom Link wrote: Display soft-wrapped lines flushed left at the proper indentation level if 'linebreak' is set Author: Václav Šmilauer I put that info, with slight changes, at: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/web/vim-patches Please check. John

RE: gvim crashes handling WM_OLE message with Ultramon's buttons turned on

2009-01-19 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Anycase Mike wrote: What i want is to let the gVim supports all system fonts.For example: :set guifont=Dungeon:h9 Any monospaced font supported by the operating system should work in gvim. Some ideas are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/The_perfect_programming_font I just noticed the subject of

RE: Where did the unofficial patches go?

2011-11-24 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: I'm looking for patch #15: Correctly indent wrapped lines in particular. Google closed the ability for groups to have web pages or files. That is, they deleted the patches list. I had a discussion with Bram about whether we should put the list somewhere like the

RE: XTerm Mouse Support on z/OS ??

2011-12-19 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bovy, Stephen wrote: When I use the mouse with vim and putty on z/OS the left mouse-click scrolls the buffer down The term type is xterm Please bottom post on this mailing list. Quote a small (relevant) part of the message you are replying to, and put your text underneath. Delete text that

RE: Vim cannot see several *.com files in system directory

2012-02-14 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Fritz wrote: :r !dir C:\WINDOWS\system32\*.com Volume in drive C is Local Disk Volume Serial Number is EA9A-15F2 Directory of C:\WINDOWS\system32 02/18/2007 06:00 AM29,696 format.com 02/18/2007 06:00 AM16,384 more.com 2 File(s)

RE: Patch 7.3.443

2012-02-16 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Edwin Steiner wrote: I found it most reliable for testing to write a simple C program that prints its argv[] array. I did that a few years ago, and in case anyone is interested, here is what I used. /* Echo arguments in one line. * John Beckett 2007/05/25 * This is to see what is passed

RE: EasyVim on windows

2012-02-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Robert Melton wrote: Wow. You can not be seriously linking a two our old executable and claiming it contains a lot of plugins. The only thing on that github is 3 executables and a blank README. Not to mention you have no other github activity, at all. Thanks Robert, you are right of course.

RE: Google summer of code mentor

2012-03-03 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram wrote: 1. Write tests for the regexp engine, so that we can finally use NFA. 2. Fix bugs and review patches 3. Fix bugs and review patches 2. and 3. should be able to work together, so that the mentor (me) does not have to spend too much time on reviewing patches. To be able to apply

RE: Google summer of code mentor

2012-03-06 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Ben Schmidt wrote: I need a backup administrator, it's mandatory for applying. I can act as a backup if necessary, too. I've been a bit quiet recently, but if direct questions or a direct task were in front of me I'd be able to help out. Thanks Ben. If Bram is not around and I have some

RE: DrChip's website is back!

2012-03-07 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Charles Campbell wrote: You may find it at: http://www.drchip.org/ Thanks Chip. I have updated all the pages at the Vim Tips wiki which used to refer to the old website (if anyone looks for that in 'Recent changes'), click 'Show bots'). John -- You received this message from the vim_dev

RE: Start Working Today

2012-03-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Marc Weber wrote: So does anybody have an idea whether this is a (badly written) real job offer by Bram or whether it is what it looks like: spam? Of course it's spam. I have already notified Bram and deleted the original post from the Google Groups archive. I don't think there is anything

RE: Start Working Today

2012-03-26 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Marc Weber wrote: It does not talk about the kind of employee they are looking for (coder, artist, ..) I had better warn any naive readers: Never believe anything you read on the Internet, including emails that appear to come from Bram. Spam can be spam (it is genuinely promoting something).

RE: Vim compilation with --enable-pythoninterp on Ubuntu

2012-04-08 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Senthil Kumaran wrote: I am trying to compile vim from source with python interpreter on Ubuntu. I have installed the dependencies for vim, installed python2.7-devel and python2.7-dbg packages on Ubuntu and do the configure step like this ./configure --enable-pythoninterp

RE: copy/mkdir/rmdir under windows

2012-04-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Charles Campbell wrote: So, how best to make this work? I was thinking if has(win32) || has(win95) || has(win64) || has(win16) if executable(cmd) let g:netrw_localmovecmd= cmd move endif endif No, as Ben said it would have to be cmd /c move and that's just going to cause

RE: copy/mkdir/rmdir under windows

2012-04-09 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
John Beckett wrote: letting the user know that netrw will use 'move', 'mkdir', 'rmdir' as a default I mean 'copy', not 'move'. I wouldn't bother doing anything about it, but FYI line 3837: if executable(start) I just thought about this and checked. There is no executable 'start

RE: copy/mkdir/rmdir under windows

2012-04-10 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Charles Campbell wrote: I think it would be best to NOT test when under Windows because there is no reasonable way to do so. If there were a reasonable way for a script to store persistent data, you could consider displaying a message the first time one of the commands is invoked, letting the

RE: set hlsearch not running from function

2012-04-23 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
smu johnson wrote: In case anyone is curious, I'm trying to simulate the regular searching slash key to be used to only search and highlight, but _not_ jump to the next match. Some good ideas are here: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Highlight_all_search_pattern_matches John -- You received this

RE: Request to link Japanese translation

2012-04-30 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Taro MURAOKA wrote: We holds translated Vim's documentation in Japanese at here. http://vim-jp.org/vimdoc-ja/ Please add a link for it to http://www.vim.org/translations.php Or who are best to ask it? I added the information. You may need to reload the page in your browser (flush cache) to

RE: setting refresh: 'always' in a completion function breaks the dot ('.') register

2012-04-30 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Val Markovic wrote: Any help, advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Someone needs to spend quality time: 1. Working out the problem is. 2. Fixing problem. You could help point 1 by giving a brief indication of what the problem is. Yes, the subject line tried to do that, but a few

RE: incorrect description on how to subscribe to lists on http://vim.org

2012-05-07 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Žroutík wrote: I was trying to subscribe to the vim-dev list by email. Therefore, I sent an email to vim-dev-subscr...@vim.org (see below in the header of the original message) -- as requested at http://www.vim.org/community.php My email was delivered, but the subscription was unsuccessful

RE: Remote Motif X11 gvim on windows using Xming ( copy cut ) ClipBoard

2012-05-10 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bovy, Stephen wrote: I have tried using this source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim But I cannot get the copy and cut to put anything on the clipboard First step is to check output of :version to see if you have +clipboard (feature supported) or -clipboard (not enabled during build). I do not know

RE: Remote Motif X11 gvim on windows using Xming ( copy cut ) ClipBoard

2012-05-10 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bovy, Stephen wrote: When I use a Different X-Window Server this strange esoteric problem completely disappears I'm glad you have fixed the issue but for the future please use the customs of this mailing list. Your last message includes five copies of the standard email footer which includes:

RE: Added support for spell checking in runtime/syntax/ocaml.vim

2012-05-11 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Dominique Pellé wrote: Yes. Maintainers were in CC of the emails. But perhaps I should write to the maintainers only to avoid sending too many emails to vim_dev (still more of those simple patches to come...) There is no good way to do this except to email the maintainers only ... wait, try

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

2012-05-18 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Kazunobu Kuriyama wrote: As a maintainer of a few runtime files, I have something to make sure of: Are there any changes for the current maintainers in what they observe--policy, obligations, or something similar to those, to maintain the runtime files they are in charge of? Nothing is

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

2012-05-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Here are some thoughts for a group-managed repo. It must be simple for the group managers, and for file maintainers, and for Bram. It must also be simple for anyone to report a problem or make a suggestion. It should be similar to the existing Vim repo, and Mercurial should be available just as

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

2012-05-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
What directories should the group manage? A possibility is below, although it may be too ambitious. It shows all first-level directories under runtime, with some to be managed by a group, and the remainder run directly by Bram. The files in 'runtime' would NOT be part of the group repo, but all

RE: home_replace() does not work with short path name on windows.

2012-05-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
Bram Moolenaar wrote: What sign of modifier do you want against :8 ? :l ? Or new function? Currently :p turns any path into a full path, so that when two names are expanded with :p they can be compared to find out if they are equal. Except for symlinks, that requires using resolve(). So

RE: home_replace() does not work with short path name on windows.

2012-05-21 Fir de Conversatie John Beckett
mattn wrote: If :p (on Windows) always produced the expanded long name, then :p:8 could be used if someone wanted the short full path. No. :echo fnamemodify('C:\Program Files', ':8:p') C:\PROGRA~1 If there is a problem, please spell it out as the above is correct. I can't see a reason

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