Re: Debug tutorial with examples?

2011-04-09 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 09/04/11 05:22, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Would any of you be so kind as to send me pointers on where, online, I can find any tutorials on vim debug which contain full examples to illustrate what is sketched in :h? For example where do I write any of the commands to define breakpoints, and

Re: Questions about: ! and . and lower case and upper case

2011-04-09 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 09/04/11 07:58, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 09/04/11 05:01, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: [...] 2) Where and when is . needed as a concatenation operator? In an expression. Not in the operands of :echo and friends if you want successive expressions to be separated by a single space. IOW, :echo

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Apr 2011, Eric Weir wrote: [snip] My preference, in my current state of ignorance, anyway, would be to never insert hard line breaks. I do have to share most of my writing with people who don't know anything but Word. So when ready for sharing I would import into another

Re: Eliminating EOL in text files

2011-04-09 Thread Andy Wokula
Am 16.12.2010 17:21, schrieb Tim Chase: On 12/16/2010 10:05 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: That joins ALL the lines. What I need to do is to have each paragraph as a contimuous line, so that when I import the file into oowriter it will be easily editable. You might try:

Re: Path easy-search

2011-04-09 Thread Andy Wokula
Am 06.04.2011 20:05, schrieb Tim Chase: On 04/06/2011 12:50 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote: ? n n n n searches repeatedly backwards. Then hit N to search forward, and n to search backward again. I *know* that. Just my fingers... (When I navigate code and jump around a lot, I tend to forget, in

Re: force use of scripts.vim to find filetype

2011-04-09 Thread Andy Wokula
Am 05.04.2011 18:51, schrieb Alvin Kerber: I have a bunch of these executable scripts, with shebang lines, and I want configure vim to detect the filetype using the shebang line. The problem is that these scripts all must have the .foo extension (they're run automatically by a build system), and

Re: menu.vim overwritten

2011-04-09 Thread Andy Wokula
Am 05.04.2011 16:59, schrieb rameo: Actually I use windows gvim 7.3 version. All my files and plugins are in my user directory vimfiles I noted that these 2 files has to be in the vim73 (program directory): - _vimrc - menu.vim That is wrong, you should never place/change files in the program

Re: Is there a command-line equivalent for pumvisible()?

2011-04-09 Thread Andy Wokula
Am 20.03.2011 11:57, schrieb ZyX: I want to mapC-p andC-n in command-line mode to vim equivalent of zle widgets history-beginning-search-backward and history-beginning-search-forward (it is what vim does when you pressUp orDown in command line), but retain their functionality when completion

Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread Tom
While we're at the topic of the site; It's really really dated. I'd make at least the plugin section a git/svn/hg repo host or tie in to github and other services and include user feedback (comments maybe, tickets would be better). Time to step into 2011 and leave 1999 behind? On Sat, Apr 9, 2011

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread lith
My preference, in my current state of ignorance, anyway, would be to never insert hard line breaks. I do have to share most of my writing with people who don't know anything but Word. So when ready for sharing I would import into another application for formatting. Apple's TextEdit is

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 09:43:16PM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: Well, I found time to work through the vim tutor exercise. Pretty basic. Not sure I remember what I learned -- I liked that it said don't try to memorize, to learn by doing -- and in a fog about some things I'm clear about, e.g., how

Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi donothing! On Fr, 08 Apr 2011, donothing successfully wrote: On 8 April 2011 07:58, John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: […] whatever the merits, this is one of those situations where it is not worth debating about some theoretical benefit of being able to use vim.org without

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Eric Weir
On Apr 8, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Ben Fritz wrote: On Apr 8, 8:43 pm, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Haven't the faintest idea how to use the manual, i.e., how to open the files listed in the table of contents. I think I need to get one of the books.

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Eric Weir
On Apr 9, 2011, at 2:53 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: There is also, as I said before, help on using help, obtained by typing :help helphelp.txt Thanks for the reminder, Tony. -- Eric Weir Decatur,

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Eric Weir
On Apr 9, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: When I have to import a Vim file into OOWriter (Libreoffice as it now is) I use this command, kindly supplied by Tim Chase in an earlier thread (thanks, Tim): :g/\%^\|\n\@=\s*\n/,/\n\n\|\%$/j This converts each paragraph into a

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Eric Weir
On Apr 9, 2011, at 5:42 AM, lith wrote: HTML actually is a great format for exchange documents. See here for some tools that could prove useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language Thanks, Tom. I'll keep it in mind.

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-09 Thread Eric Weir
On Apr 9, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: Dunno if it suits your learning style, but many years ago I started keeping (very brief) notes of the most immediately useful stuff, using vim. The act of condensing a concept, and writing it down, together with the relevant commands, help

Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread Erik Christiansen
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Fr, 08 Apr 2011, donothing successfully wrote: A user may well assume the site is down if the url doesn't resolve. Seconded. This had bugged me many many times with various browsers. Thirded. Particularly, if after

Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Fr, 08 Apr 2011, donothing successfully wrote: A user may well assume the site is down if the url doesn't resolve. Seconded. This had bugged me many many times with various

Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread sal migondis
I don't mind typing the extra www. but I tried this in seamonkey 2.0.13 (linux) and it just works. I don't remember changing these settings manually (under Edit-Preferences-Location Bar) but you can specify adding www and/or com when a web page is 'not found', so I would assume they are the

Inserting output of Ex command into buffer

2011-04-09 Thread Spiros Bousbouras
How can you insert the output of an Ex command into the buffer at the place where the cursor is ? Say for example in the 1st line here I want to insert right after you the output of :chdir .So I place the cursor after you and then do what ? -- You received this message from the vim_use

Re: Inserting output of Ex command into buffer

2011-04-09 Thread Tim Chase
On 04/09/2011 12:11 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote: How can you insert the output of an Ex command into the buffer at the place where the cursor is ? Say for example in the 1st line here I want to insert right after you the output of :chdir .So I place the cursor after you and then do what ? A

Re: Debug tutorial with examples?

2011-04-09 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 09/04/11 05:22, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Would any of you be so kind as to send me pointers on where, online, I can find any tutorials on vim debug which contain full examples to illustrate what is sketched in :h? For example where do I write any of the commands to

Transfer of control, i.e. go to in a script

2011-04-09 Thread Rostyslaw Lewyckyj
In a vim script of function what is the command to transfer execution control to a specific line/point in the script. I.e the equivalent of GOTO 100 ? -- Rostyk -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For

Questions about Source Explore and NERD tree plugin

2011-04-09 Thread Zhang Le
Hi, I am user of gvim of NERD tree and source explore plugin. Currently I am encountering with a problem. When I invoke the NERD tree in gvim, the cursor in the workplace disappears. I have checked my .vimrc, there seems nothing wrong. Could you please lend me a hand? Thanks very much! -- *with