Re: perl syntax folding

2008-11-06 Thread A. S. Budden
2008/11/5 fREW Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So one of my coworkers just got mad at me for polluting a bunch of source code with fold markers, so I figured I should investigate syntax based folding. The folding that comes out of the box for perl is mostly great. Anyway, I want to fold on

Package for Cygwin

2008-11-06 Thread Vocoda
I'm trying to obtain the Vim package for Cygwin, and the download page has the following brief instruction : Cygwin (console) http://www.cygwin.com/packages/vim/ Installing is done with the Cygwin setup.exe. The http link takes me to a listing of installed binaries and support files. Is this

Re: Fast Buffer Switching

2008-11-06 Thread Anton Sharonov
2008/11/3, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A nice way to jump between 3 buffers is to set uppercase marks. Go to each file in turn and set the marks: mA, mB, mC. Then 'A or 'B or 'C to jump between the files instantly. Of course you can set marks for as many files as you like and you can use any

Re: Fast Buffer Switching

2008-11-06 Thread sc
On Thursday 06 November 2008 2:14 am, Anton Sharonov wrote: 2008/11/3, Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A nice way to jump between 3 buffers is to set uppercase marks. Go to each file in turn and set the marks: mA, mB, mC. Then 'A or 'B or 'C to jump between the files instantly. Of course you

Re: Package for Cygwin

2008-11-06 Thread Tom Link
Is this some kind of trick to fool Windozers? The only trick is: Installing is done with the Cygwin setup.exe. If you want to install a cygwin package, you should select it in setup.exe's package list. The package will be downloaded installed. That's all.

compile with keymap support

2008-11-06 Thread Panos
Is there anything else I need to specify in ./configure except multibyte to support keymaps? ./configure --enable-gui=macvim --enable-pythoninterp --enable- multibyte There are is my configuration, though, I get no support for keymaps. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Switching between buffers (most recently used buffer list)

2008-11-06 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 21:43, Anton Sharonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just one enhancement idea: together with displaying the buffer name in the status line, it would be great to really switch the buffers temporarily - so one can decide faster depends on how this buffer looks like - to stay

Re: compile with keymap support

2008-11-06 Thread Ben Schmidt
Panos wrote: Is there anything else I need to specify in ./configure except multibyte to support keymaps? ./configure --enable-gui=macvim --enable-pythoninterp --enable- multibyte There are is my configuration, though, I get no support for keymaps. Use --with-features=big or

Re: gvim mode: Maximize/Tabs Bug in GNOME

2008-11-06 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Andy Walker wrote: I've encountered a small annoyance in 7.2 (and earlier) in GNOME (and I've heard it's in KDE as well). If I click on the window manager's maximize button, it fills the screen rather nicely, but if I then add a tab, this resizes the window, pushing the bottom couple of

Re: gtk printing

2008-11-06 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Bill Lam wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2008, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 01/11/08 02:57, bill lam wrote: afaics gtk-gvim use linux console mode printing commands. Will gvim use the more user friendly gtk printing system? I wish I can use gvim instead of gedit/geany for printing

Re: gvim mode: Maximize/Tabs Bug in GNOME

2008-11-06 Thread Dominique Pelle
2008/10/17 Andy Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've encountered a small annoyance in 7.2 (and earlier) in GNOME (and I've heard it's in KDE as well). If I click on the window manager's maximize button, it fills the screen rather nicely, but if I then add a tab, this resizes the window, pushing

Re: location-list

2008-11-06 Thread yosi izaq
Thank you! This is very helpful. I've played some with the mechanics of quick-fix and location list using vimgrep (and lvimgrep). Very neat. I would like to know what other filters/commands may output to QQ/LL and the invoation syntax. Using the :! doesn't seem to output to QQ/LL. On Thu, Nov

reverse video

2008-11-06 Thread Morgan, Edward C (Ed)
How would I change the .vimrc or .gvimrc file so that vim will come up in reverse video? I'm currently aliasing vim to vim -rv or I can set .Xdefaults to have vim come up in reverse video, but I can't figure out how to do it for Windows. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

RE: location-list

2008-11-06 Thread John Beckett
yosi izaq wrote: Very basic question. How can I read the help documentation for the location list? :help location-list I found that with ':help location' then pressing Tab for completion. John --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_use

Re: compile with keymap support

2008-11-06 Thread Panos
Thanks Ben :) On Nov 6, 12:20 pm, Ben Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Panos wrote: Is there anything else I need to specify in ./configure except multibyte to support keymaps? ./configure --enable-gui=macvim --enable-pythoninterp --enable- multibyte There are is my configuration,

Re: Mapping keys

2008-11-06 Thread yosi izaq
Thank you for the answer. I have vim 7.2 and I have pasted your suggestion to my .vimrc then :so it. Then when I do :w1 VIM tries to save to file named 1. This is how I pasted: if version 700 cnoreabbrev w1 w! else cnoreabbrev expr w1 ((getcmdtype() == ':' getcmdpos() =

Re: Package for Cygwin

2008-11-06 Thread Ben Kim
I just had a similar experience yesterday. You can go directly to the mirrors. Mirror list: http://www.cygwin.com/mirrors.html One pick: ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/cygwin/release/vim/ (Many sites under North America.) They have binaries and sources. Regards, Ben Kim On Thu, 6 Nov 2008,

RE: reverse video

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Hall
From: Morgan, Edward C (Ed), Thu, November 06, 2008 7:13 am How would I change the .vimrc or .gvimrc file so that vim will come up in reverse video? I'm currently aliasing vim to vim -rv or I can set .Xdefaults to have vim come up in reverse video, but I can't figure out how to do it for

Re: Switching between buffers (most recently used buffer list)

2008-11-06 Thread Anton Sharonov
Guten Tag Richard Hartmann, am Donnerstag, 06. November 2008 um 10:39 schrieben Sie: Just one enhancement idea: together with displaying the buffer name in the status line, it would be great to really switch the buffers temporarily - so one can decide faster depends on how this buffer looks

Re: location-list

2008-11-06 Thread fritzophrenic
On Nov 6, 6:51 am, yosi izaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! This is very helpful. I've played some with the mechanics of quick-fix and location list using vimgrep (and lvimgrep). Very neat. I would like to know what other filters/commands may output to QQ/LL and the invoation syntax.

Re: Accidentally overloaded the q key

2008-11-06 Thread fritzophrenic
On Nov 5, 9:42 am, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As yet one more alternative, you can tweak your mapping to    :nnoremap qcr :qcr so using 2 keys qcr instead of just the one q allows Vim to disambiguate between your intentions. This is what I would recommend, because your current

Sorry for the automated out of office reply

2008-11-06 Thread Roland Puntaier
Hi, I just realized that the automated out of office reply (Roland Puntaier ist außer Haus) I had on in August also went to the mailing lists I'm subscribed to. I'm very sorry. Roland. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the vim_use maillist.

Re: Mapping keys

2008-11-06 Thread fritzophrenic
On Nov 5, 12:27 pm, yosi izaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I often make the mistake of typing w1 instead of w!. Can you please suggest how to map w1 to w!? TIA I use this: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Replace_a_builtin_command_using_cabbrev For much the same purpose you want it for: correct

Re: perl syntax folding

2008-11-06 Thread fritzophrenic
On Nov 5, 10:12 am, fREW Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So one of my coworkers just got mad at me for polluting a bunch of source code with fold markers, so I figured I should investigate syntax based folding.  The folding that comes out of the box for perl is mostly great. Anyway, I

Re: location-list

2008-11-06 Thread Yegappan Lakshmanan
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:51 AM, yosi izaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you! This is very helpful. I've played some with the mechanics of quick-fix and location list using vimgrep (and lvimgrep). Very neat. I would like to know what other filters/commands may output to QQ/LL and the

BackSpace not working anymore, now only CTRL-D [sj]

2008-11-06 Thread smu johnson
Hi guys, I have once again looked through the man pages to find some relevant information on this, but as usual, I suck at it. Question: My Vim (sometime after upgrading to 7.2) doesn't let me hit BackSpace to go back when I have auto-indents set on, or... if I am editing a single line, I can

Re: Accidentally overloaded the q key

2008-11-06 Thread pgodfrin
On Nov 6, 10:52 am, fritzophrenic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 5, 9:42 am, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As yet one more alternative, you can tweak your mapping to    :nnoremap qcr :qcr so using 2 keys qcr instead of just the one q allows Vim to disambiguate between your

RE: Multiple quickfix windows?

2008-11-06 Thread Greg Klein
Subject: Re: Multiple quickfix windows? Do you know about :grepadd already ? Nice! No, I did NOT know about :grepadd, thanks. Per the help, I can append each :grep output to the one quickfix window. That will suffice nicely given that multiple quickfix windows are not possible. And I

Newbie question....

2008-11-06 Thread Linda W
It's sorta embarassin', but I don't know how to copy Selected-text to the clipboard under Windows using the keyboard (i.e. Not going up to Edit, and using 'Copy'). It DOES give a keyboard shortcut that it tells me I can use: +y (double quote, + y) I've tried holding down D)ouble Q)uote and

Re: Newbie question....

2008-11-06 Thread Erik Hahn
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 01:40:26PM -0800, Linda W wrote: It's sorta embarassin', but I don't know how to copy Selected-text to the clipboard under Windows using the keyboard (i.e. Not going up to Edit, and using 'Copy'). It DOES give a keyboard shortcut that it tells me I can use: +y

RE: Newbie question....

2008-11-06 Thread John Beckett
Linda W wrote: Sorry -- I'm just not getting this +y You have to be in normal mode (i.e. you have pressed Escape). You then select some text. For example press V then j then j to visually select three lines. Then type +y (press and release then + then y). The selection disappears; it has

RE: Newbie question....

2008-11-06 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
Sorry -- I'm just not getting this +y Then type +y (press and release then + then y). Not to harp on it again, but the more or less standardised keychords can also be used: copy^C ctl-ins cut ^X ctl-del paste ^V shf-ins and usually work across

Re: Newbie question....

2008-11-06 Thread Kevin Dillman
I like to use the visual selection v and then motion keys to select. To copy I do the following: +y then you can paste in any windows program. To paste from another windows program into vim I use +p. Of course you could use this in your _vimrc: :set clipboard+=unnamed turns out I do like is

Re: Could someone please tell me how to install vim on a WindowsXP machine

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Suter
Have you tried GVim? I don't care for running vim not in a terminal, personally, but if you're stuck on an XP box, it should at least give you a proper window and some real font capabilities -- not the god-awful windows 80x25 cmd line. check here http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc -- it should

slowness with gnu screen

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Suter
I am using vim (7.1) from a GNU Screen session (4.00.03) from within gnome-terminal on Ubuntu 8.04. I regularly use screen with several active windows, and I've found that after leaving a session active awhile (for how long, i'm not sure) vim startup seems to take *forever* (upwards of 30

Re: Could someone please tell me how to install vim on a WindowsXP machine

2008-11-06 Thread 703designs
I'm not a Windows person at all either, which is why installing Vim was the first thing I did when I started this job back in the spring. They stuck me on an XP box and wanted me to use Dreamweaver, so I grabbed GVim (Win32) from the Vim site and got coding. But I really should have just gone

RE: Could someone please tell me how to install vim on a WindowsXP machine

2008-11-06 Thread John Beckett
Mary Anderson wrote: Could someone please tell me how to install vim on a WindowsXP machine Following is the best procedure (thanks Steve Hall): http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html Click Windows Vim installers without Cream. It says Includes both GUI and console Vim versions (you

Re: slowness with gnu screen

2008-11-06 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 06 Nov 2008, Chris Suter wrote: I am using vim (7.1) from a GNU Screen session (4.00.03) from within gnome-terminal on Ubuntu 8.04. I use vim 7.2 / screen / xterm / ubuntu 8.10, and did not have any experience that you describe. For example, I run mutt inside screen inside xterm,

Re: location-list

2008-11-06 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 06/11/08 13:51, yosi izaq wrote: Thank you! This is very helpful. I've played some with the mechanics of quick-fix and location list using vimgrep (and lvimgrep). Very neat. I would like to know what other filters/commands may output to QQ/LL and the invoation syntax. Using the :!

Installing PyClewn on Mac OS X

2008-11-06 Thread Andrew Long
Hi all I tried to install pyclewn on OS X Leopard last night. The install failed with the following trace back:- nike-2:pyclewn-0.6 andy$ vimdir=$HOME/.vim python setup.py install -- home=$HOME running install Traceback (most recent call last): File setup.py, line 152, in module