Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Linda W
` Ben Fritz wrote: On Oct 12, 6:47 pm, Linda W v...@tlinx.org wrote: Jürgen Krämer wrote:(at least when I launch from explorer...)...so if it finds my .vim and .gvim, why doesn't it find .vim/colors/.vim?did you change the 'runtimepath' option? On Windows the directory for

Re: :bd makes syntax highlight of the next window unavailable

2011-10-25 Thread Peng Yu
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Thilo Six t@gmx.de wrote: Peng Yu wrote the following on 21.10.2011 03:00 Hello, Suppose that I open 3 .R files with gvim -o. All the three .R files are correctly syntax highlighted. However, if I use :bd to close one window, the next window's syntax

Re: Running gVim as a single instance

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Fritz
On Oct 24, 10:40 am, Bernhard Heijstek bernhard.heijs...@yahoo.com wrote: I want it in such a way that on double clicking an already opened file, or a new file, gVim uses the same window. From this question asked previously on Stackoverflow

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Fritz
On Oct 25, 2:52 am, Linda W v...@tlinx.org wrote: Comments: 1) that .vim isn't searched for in the same way with 'vimfiles', is a rather glaring BUG, given the above.   It's incompatible with the documented procedures for checking the names of .vimrc, .gvimrc, and .exrc. But, unlike the

Re: :bd makes syntax highlight of the next window unavailable

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Fritz
On Oct 25, 10:23 am, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Thilo Six t@gmx.de wrote: Peng Yu wrote the following on 21.10.2011 03:00 Hello, Suppose that I open 3 .R files with gvim -o. All the three .R files are correctly syntax highlighted. However,

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Linda W
Ben Fritz wrote: On Oct 25, 2:52 am, Linda W v...@tlinx.org wrote: Comments: 1) that .vim isn't searched for in the same way with 'vimfiles', is a rather glaring BUG, given the above.   It's incompatible with the documented procedures for checking the names of .vimrc, .gvimrc,

Re: :bd makes syntax highlight of the next window unavailable

2011-10-25 Thread Thilo Six
Hello Ben, -- snip -- I'm glad it works, but something is wrong here. Syntax highlight is local to a buffer. If you have 3 separate buffers opened in 3 separate Windows, deleting one buffer (and closing its window) should have no effect on the other buffers/windows. I suspected that but

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2011-10-25, Linda W wrote: Ben Fritz wrote: The only reason Vim uses vimfiles at all on Windows, is that on Windows, 'runtimepath' defaults to including vimfiles instead of .vim. We could default to include BOTH, however this could easily break a lot of systems already out

Re: :bd makes syntax highlight of the next window unavailable

2011-10-25 Thread Thilo Six
Thilo Six wrote the following on 25.10.2011 19:37 Hello -- snip -- I'm glad it works, but something is wrong here. Syntax highlight is local to a buffer. If you have 3 separate buffers opened in 3 separate Windows, deleting one buffer (and closing its window) should have no effect on the

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Fritz
On Oct 25, 11:39 am, Linda W v...@tlinx.org wrote: Ben Fritz wrote:On Oct 25, 2:52 am, Linda Wv...@tlinx.orgwrote:Comments: 1) that .vim isn't searched for in the same way with 'vimfiles', is a rather glaring BUG, given the above.   It's incompatible with the documented procedures for

Re: :bd makes syntax highlight of the next window unavailable

2011-10-25 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Thilo Six t@gmx.de wrote: Thilo Six wrote the following on 25.10.2011 19:37 Hello -- snip -- I'm glad it works, but something is wrong here. Syntax highlight is local to a buffer. If you have 3 separate buffers opened in 3 separate Windows, deleting

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Charles Campbell
Ben Fritz wrote: And I'm sure we can safely assume that Unix users everywhere would be angry for years if Bram decided one day to use vimfiles rather than .vim for the default Unix Vim config. Grrr. -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Linda W
George V. Reilly wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Alessandro Antonello wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Ben Fritz wrote: The default Windows setting, to hide the extension for known file types, will probably make matters worse. I expect, though I have not

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Gary Johnson
Wow. So many issues to choose from. On 2011-10-25, Linda W wrote: But lately, win7 and samba threw 2 more curve balls at me: Sometimes randomly, windows would set my home to be: C:\users\lindaw and, other times: i:\\ It depended on whether or not (I think) it managed to

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Linda W
` Ben Fritz wrote: On Oct 25, 11:39 am, Linda W v...@tlinx.org wrote: Ben Fritz wrote:On Oct 25, 2:52 am, Linda Wv...@tlinx.orgwrote:Comments: 1) that .vim isn't searched for in the same way with 'vimfiles', is a rather glaring BUG, given the above.   It's incompatible with

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread pansz
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Linda W v...@tlinx.org wrote: But I asked how it would be incompat if it looked for .vim, if found, then don't look for vimfiles.? You always have multiple runtimepath, at least you have ~/.vim and /usr/share/vim/vim73 as the runtimepath. If you ignore any

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Jürgen Krämer
Hi, Ben Fritz wrote: This is pretty much what I was proposing. I would extend it further. Something like this could be placed in vimrc_example.vim, which AFAIK is sourced by default in a brand-new Windows installation: check for $HOME/.vim existing INSTEAD of $HOME/vimfiles, in case Vim

Re: Please fix: make Windows Vim use same files as unix. No reason not to and it's confusing in mixed envirionments.

2011-10-25 Thread Jürgen Krämer
Hi, Linda W wrote: I Can say one thing for certain. The PC Version hasn't been a correct path since Win98 (if then). HOME isn't a a system defined var. HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH, yes...but not HOME. So unless someone set it, it won't it won't exist. there's no need for the user to set $HOME