Is read-only text possible in vim?

2010-07-27 Thread winterTTr
I know that we can use the set nomodifiable to make a buffer read-only, which makes all the text in it not modifiable. But is it possible to make some text in a buffer read-only but not for the whole buffer? I mean maybe we can bind a property to the string ( or text, or character ) , which can

Re: Is read-only text possible in vim?

2010-07-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-07-27 15:55 (+0800), winterTTr wrote: But is it possible to make some text in a buffer read-only but not for the whole buffer? I mean maybe we can bind a property to the string ( or text, or character ) , which can make the text read-only in a modifiable buffer. Or even finally, We can

Swap files syncing

2010-07-27 Thread Diana
Hello, My name is Diana and I am a GSoC student, working for KDE. My task is to implement Vim-like swap files support for Kate, a text editor for KDE. I have encountered a problem with syncing the swap files to the disk. I am currently syncing them every 15 seconds, only if the buffer has

Re: Vim statusline -- show line count in visual mode

2010-07-27 Thread Dennis Benzinger
Hi Joyce! Original-Nachricht Datum: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Von: Joyce Tipping jo...@spencertipping.com An: v...@vim.org Betreff: Vim statusline -- show line count in visual mode Is there a way to display a line count in visual mode? I've been fiddling

Re: Swap files syncing

2010-07-27 Thread Dennis Benzinger
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:22:37 +0300 Von: Diana diana.tiripl...@gmail.com An: v...@vim.org Betreff: Swap files syncing Hello, My name is Diana and I am a GSoC student, working for KDE. My task is to implement Vim-like swap files support for Kate, a

some bugs

2010-07-27 Thread Boyko Bantchev
Recently I've spotted the following problems using GUI (GTK2) Vim 7.2.330 on Ubuntu 10.04 (April 2010) with GNOME 2.30.2 (build 25.6.2010). -1- Unicode characters with grave (U+0300) or acute (U+0301) combining accents do not display correctly. -2- The following behaviour contradicts the

Re: Is read-only text possible in vim?

2010-07-27 Thread Stahlman Family
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:55 +0800, winterTTr wrote: I know that we can use the set nomodifiable to make a buffer read-only, which makes all the text in it not modifiable. But is it possible to make some text in a buffer read-only but not for the whole buffer? I mean maybe we can bind a

Re: some bugs

2010-07-27 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Boyko Bantchev wrote: Recently I've spotted the following problems using GUI (GTK2) Vim 7.2.330 on Ubuntu 10.04 (April 2010) with GNOME 2.30.2 (build 25.6.2010). -1- Unicode characters with grave (U+0300) or acute (U+0301) combining accents do not display correctly. -2- The following

Re: Is read-only text possible in vim?

2010-07-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2010-07-27 10:58 (-0500), Stahlman Family wrote: Vim is, by design, a text editor, not a word-processor. Storing properties and such in files automatically would be highly undesirable. Being a text editor is not mutually exclusive with text properties. Also, text properties are not

Re: Vim Help on IME

2010-07-27 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 26/07/10 21:50, Sean wrote: Hi Tony, Everything from your message are clear except the following: To input multibyte characters *by means of an Input Method* on Windows, you have to use an Input Method Editor (IME). (etc.) As a matter of fact, I can take VimIM as one Input Method. I am

Showing linker errors in quickfix window

2010-07-27 Thread Neil Bird
Our build process includes stand-alone library checking, which can manifest lines along the lines of: /path/to/libsomething.so: undefined symbol: jibbyjobby() Is there anything I can add to errorformat that would ensure that that was in the list? I'd like 'cwindow' to open even if

Re: some bugs

2010-07-27 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 27/07/10 12:51, Boyko Bantchev wrote: Recently I've spotted the following problems using GUI (GTK2) Vim 7.2.330 on Ubuntu 10.04 (April 2010) with GNOME 2.30.2 (build 25.6.2010). -1- Unicode characters with grave (U+0300) or acute (U+0301) combining accents do not display correctly. -2- The

Re: some bugs

2010-07-27 Thread bill lam
Втр, 27 Июл 2010, Tony Mechelynck писал(а): On 27/07/10 12:51, Boyko Bantchev wrote: Recently I've spotted the following problems using GUI (GTK2) Vim 7.2.330 on Ubuntu 10.04 (April 2010) with GNOME 2.30.2 (build 25.6.2010). -1- Unicode characters with grave (U+0300) or acute (U+0301)

Re: some bugs

2010-07-27 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 27/07/10 18:44, bill lam wrote: Втр, 27 Июл 2010, Tony Mechelynck писал(а): On 27/07/10 12:51, Boyko Bantchev wrote: Recently I've spotted the following problems using GUI (GTK2) Vim 7.2.330 on Ubuntu 10.04 (April 2010) with GNOME 2.30.2 (build 25.6.2010). -1- Unicode characters with grave

Re: Is it possible to install vim ...

2010-07-27 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2010-07-27, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible, to install vim under UNIX complete locally to $HOME when used only by the owner of $HOME? Yes. There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on exactly where under $HOME you want to install Vim. The most straightforward is to

Re: Is it possible to install vim ...

2010-07-27 Thread meino . cramer
Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com [10-07-27 19:44]: On 2010-07-27, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible, to install vim under UNIX complete locally to $HOME when used only by the owner of $HOME? Yes. There are a couple of ways to do this, depending on exactly where under

Re: Is it possible to install vim ...

2010-07-27 Thread Frodak Baksik
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is it possible, to install vim under UNIX complete locally to $HOME when used only by the owner of $HOME? Thanks a lot in advance for any help ! Best regards, mcc -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist.

Re: Vim Help on IME

2010-07-27 Thread Sean
Hi Tony, Based on discussion on this thread as well as relating topics from you on this group, I would vote you to update/manage this part of Vim Help. Vim Help is important. It is translated to many languages. (I know there exists a Chinese version of Vim Help.) I will be happy to review

Re: Vim statusline -- show line count in visual mode

2010-07-27 Thread Joyce Tipping
Yay, thanks! I put set showcmd in my vimrc. So everything should be peachy now. Thanks again! Joyce -- View this message in context: http://vim.1045645.n5.nabble.com/Vim-statusline-show-line-count-in-visual-mode-tp2255427p2256439.html Sent from the Vim - General mailing list archive at

Re: Vim Help on IME

2010-07-27 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 27/07/10 21:29, Sean wrote: Hi Tony, Based on discussion on this thread as well as relating topics from you on this group, I would vote you to update/manage this part of Vim Help. Hm, I am fluent in English, but it is not my mother language; and I've never had much success trying to use

wildcard doesn't work for tags

2010-07-27 Thread koffee
have a tag file (blah.tags) in $HOME\tags folder in vimrc: set tags+=$HOME/tags/* Then when you do: echo tagfiles() You won't see $HOME/tags/blah.tags in the list But if you do (set the tag file explicitly w/o using wildcards) set tags+=$HOME/tags/blah.tags Then you'll see this file in

[Bug Report]E13 error in v73b

2010-07-27 Thread Ricky J. Wu
Hello all When I was using version 7.3b to open file and write after edit, I encounter E13 error. I must use w! to override. Do you have the same problem? -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more

Replace except enclosed by delimiters ()

2010-07-27 Thread fd
Hi all Well, I'm starting to use Vim and still getting the hang of it. I have a problem where I need to replace a text to lowercase, except if the text is enclosed by double quotes and I'm not quite getting it. As an example give the input text FOO, FOO, fooO, foOO I want it to become foo,

Should 2html generate valid CSS by default?

2010-07-27 Thread Benjamin Fritz
I've taken over as maintainer of the TOhtml plugin during Vim 7.3 development. Something that's bugged me a little for some time about 2html, is that the current default is to NOT use CSS, but rather use old-style font, b, i, and other tags for markup. The :help says: By default, HTML

Re: [Bug Report]E13 error in v73b

2010-07-27 Thread bill lam
Втр, 27 Июл 2010, Ricky J. Wu писал(а): Hello all When I was using version 7.3b to open file and write after edit, I encounter E13 error. I must use w! to override. Do you have the same problem? It works for me. I guess you could provide more context when submitting a bug report. --