Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Erik! On Di, 19 Feb 2013, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 18.02.13 23:06, Christian Brabandt wrote: No, it is because \n is evaluated to a true line feed, so [^\n] matches anything but ASCII NUL and ASCII 10, while '[^\n]' matches anything but ASCII NUL (which is used internally by Vim

Re: vim: map a key to conditionally override built-in behavior

2013-02-19 Thread Paul Isambert
ping songpingem...@gmail.com a écrit: this looks weird at first glance. but sometime, I want to give the existing keystroke (like 'h') a new behavior, at a very certain circumstance. for example, if you use ranger (file manager), by default it will end up with opening the text file in vim,

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Marc! On Mo, 18 Feb 2013, Marc Weber wrote: I don't think that additional threads are going to help There is an issue, and we should find a way to fix (IMHO). Let me summarize again - and tell me if you feel differently. Test cases: [1] echo len(matchstr(\n,'\zs[^\n]\ze')) [2] echo

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Marc! On Mo, 18 Feb 2013, Marc Weber wrote: No, it is because \n is evaluated to a true line feed, so [^\n] matches anything but ASCII NUL and ASCII 10, while '[^\n]' matches anything but ASCII NUL (which is used internally by Vim to distinguish lines from each other (e.g. a line

Re: noscrollbind ignored (kind of)

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi AndyHancock! On So, 17 Feb 2013, AndyHancock wrote: When I diff two files with scroll binding, then set nodiff and noscrollbind on each window, the files still seem to track each other. However, they are not completely in sync. One seems to be a screen or two behind the other. The

Re: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi John! On Mo, 18 Feb 2013, John Little wrote: BTW, 7.3.46 is quite old now, ~2006. You can get a much more recent vim for windows from http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html. 7.3 was released in Summer 2010, IIRC regards, Christian -- Der Weise sagt niemals, was er tut - aber er

windows x64 binaries

2013-02-19 Thread Hugo Ahlenius
Hi, Is there some good spot where one can get updated Windows 64-bit binaries? I got mine previously from here: http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/ ...but there hasn't been any new releases since the summer of 2010. Thanks! Regards, Hugo -- Hugo Ahlenius fraxi...@oxel.net -- -- You

RE: windows x64 binaries

2013-02-19 Thread John Beckett
Hugo Ahlenius wrote: Is there some good spot where one can get updated Windows 64-bit binaries? I haven't tried it, but there is another site mentioned at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Download John -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Marc! On Di, 19 Feb 2013, Marc Weber wrote: I want Vim defaults to be - sane - follow the principle of least surprise. (I'd like nocompatible to be set by default, but that's another story) Christian: :set cpo+=l still makes my test cases fail: [1] echo

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Marc Weber
Why is this an issue? I don't see a problem with \_ syntax at all. Let me tell you. People get to know Vim. Vim is a tool to serve users. They want to edit text, get their job done (At least that's what I assume). For this reason every construct such as \_ which requires you to lookup help is

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Di, 19 Feb 2013, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Mo, 18 Feb 2013, Marc Weber wrote: I don't think that additional threads are going to help There is an issue, and we should find a way to fix (IMHO). Let me summarize again - and tell me if you feel differently. Test cases: [1] echo

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:07 PM, Chris Lott wrote: Nothing competes with Vim, but I still can't get past the fact that--most of the time--I can't ever get into insert mode with iPad Vim and my external keyboard. In the meantime, I use Textastic...that's the best I've found and it integrates with

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 18, 2013, at 12:09 AM, Chris Lott wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Bee fo...@calcentral.com wrote: On Feb 17, 4:07 pm, Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Bee fo...@calcentral.com wrote: Nothing competes with Vim, but I still can't get past

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Lott
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I have no problem getting into insert mode using the virtual keyboard. Nor do I. But it's too slow. Or I should say: I'm too slow on it. I type between 90-100 wpm on my external keyboard. I am sticking with the virtual

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 17, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Bee wrote: I used the 'd' command in netrw, created all the folders that are normally in .vim. Added my own colorscheme... it worked. Making progress. I keep trying other ios editors, so far only iText Pad is even usable. Still ios vim is much better,

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 17, 2013, at 4:42 PM, Bee wrote: Making progress. I keep trying other ios editors, so far only iText Pad is even usable. Still ios vim is much better, but needs DropBox or WiFi file sharing support. A question: Will there be a problem with vim on ios with plugin managers that go out

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Marc Weber
[..] patch, [..] prevents /[] matching [] other vi clones do, also grep and perl throw an error). :) You start comparing Vim against what other tools do. We should discuss whether /[] is a bug or feature. docs state that /[abc matches [abc by purpose (which could also be treated as error

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-02-19 18:54, Erik Christiansen wrote: The tiny and distant Esc key on laptops quickly forced me to find something better, primarily for vim, I work primarily on laptops and found that esc wasn't the problem, but that it was too close to f1. So I mapped f1 to behave like esc so I can

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread David Sanson
Netrw isn't going to work for browsing remote services: it relies on external helper apps for that. There is still development going on at the project's github page. -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying

Using vimdiff for merging with Unison File Synchronizer

2013-02-19 Thread erwin . gaubitzer
Hi The File Synchronizer Unison has the possibility to merge two versions of a file both of which have been changed. Unison is perfect for use in a shell, so using it with vim as the merging tool would be perfect, too. The problem is that using a simple vimdiff CURRENT1 CURRENT2 just does not

cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread Franco
It seems I cannot unsubscribe from this mailing list. I sent a mail both to vim-unsubscr...@vim.org and to the google address one. I received the confirmation but replying lead to nothing (vim.org address) and to a Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Lott
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 5:44 AM, David Sanson dsan...@gmail.com wrote: There is still development going on at the project's github page. Sort of. But this particular issue has been reported for nearly a year with no response of any kind. It's not a total loss, though, because even when I could

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 19, 2013, at 8:42 AM, Chris Lott wrote: An extra row of virtual keys, as some editors provide, would be useful, but just a kludge for those of us who prefer a keyboard we can type significantly faster on. The bluetooths will always be there, though I gather they're not yet ideal for

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
:-) Thanks Daniel, I can't do that because I use capslock all the time for its intended purpose. Of course, what maybe I COULD (see what I mean) do would be to make Capslock Esc, and then make Esc capslock. I use capslock much less than Esc. SteveT On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:03:56 +0800 Daniel

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Michael Henry
On 02/19/2013 08:33 AM, Eric Weir wrote: I was also able to remap esc to jj, which some have said can't be done. It is a little tricky, though. You have to do the jj real fast. [Is there a setting I could change that would get jj recognized as a single command by allowing for a slightly

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:50:38 -0600 Benjamin Klein b...@silver-chalice.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Thank you! You're welcome -- glad to be of help. :) I was going to say that I borrowed that one from Steve Losh's excellent (and

Re: cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:43:10 + Franco franc...@gmx.com wrote: It seems I cannot unsubscribe from this mailing list. I sent a mail both to vim-unsubscr...@vim.org and to the google address one. I received the confirmation but replying lead to nothing (vim.org address) and to a

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Lott
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I gather typing fast is important to programmers, at least to some. As a writer, typing fast is not important. The critical thing is how fast is my thinking. If I'm writing something that requires thought, if writing is

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: from: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com date: Mon, Feb 18 05:54 PM -05:00 2013 to: vim_use@googlegroups.com reply-to: vim_use@googlegroups.com subject: mapping a substitute for the Esc key? Hi all, I

Re: ios vim and plugins

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 19, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Michael Henry v...@drmikehenry.com wrote: On 02/19/2013 08:33 AM, Eric Weir wrote: I was also able to remap esc to jj, which some have said can't be done. It is a little tricky, though. You have to do the jj real fast. [Is there a setting I could change that

Re: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel M. Eldridge
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:26 PM, John Little john.b.lit...@gmail.comwrote: On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:55:34 PM UTC+13, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: Please don't top-post. Now, instead of marks I get solid blocks--the size of a character. That means your font doesn't have the

Re: trouble with pattern, character collections

2013-02-19 Thread Ben Fritz
On Monday, February 18, 2013 4:38:56 PM UTC-6, MarcWeber wrote: So why should anybody write [^\n] if you can use '.'? So why make [^\n] behave the same way? Sometimes the meaning is clearer. What if you're searching for a sequence of certain characters including newlines, where the first

Re: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???

2013-02-19 Thread Ben Fritz
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:06:07 PM UTC-6, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: Thank-you John. I've found a number of fonts that have increased coverage--more characters, but I'm confused about how to display more fonts in Edit | Select Font... Vim should display all *monospace* fonts

Re: Using vimdiff for merging with Unison File Synchronizer

2013-02-19 Thread Ben Fritz
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:08:21 AM UTC-6, erwin.g...@gmail.com wrote: Hi The File Synchronizer Unison has the possibility to merge two versions of a file both of which have been changed. Unison is perfect for use in a shell, so using it with vim as the merging tool would be perfect,

PRIVATE [was Re: ios vim and plugins]

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Lott
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: And on speed of thought vs.speed of typing, there are lots of pauses in my writing. Often I am figuring it out word by word. (Or, as Anne Lamott would have it, Bird by Bird.) Mine too...unless I'm doing work (technical,

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Lott
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I'm actually thinking of using jf. The jk sequence seems a little slow/tiring because I have to reposition the hand in a weird way. Most who type in classical position have jk under their index and middle finger,

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-02-19 11:41, Chris Lott wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I'm actually thinking of using jf. The jk sequence seems a little slow/tiring because I have to reposition the hand in a weird way. Most who type in classical position have

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread darkweasel
Am 2013-02-19 21:54, schrieb Tim Chase: On 2013-02-19 11:41, Chris Lott wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I'm actually thinking of using jf. The jk sequence seems a little slow/tiring because I have to reposition the hand in a weird way. Most

Re: cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread Franco
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 01:09:03PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Franco, This doesn't answer your question, but be aware that the last time I unsubscribed and then re-subscribed, it took me days, and I had to contact people and have somebody in charge manually subscribe me. From that moment

Re: cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread Marco
On 2013–02–19 Franco wrote: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Technical details of permanent failure: RpcError Sorry, I can't help with that, but I can confirm this behaviour. It took quite some time (don't remember,

Re: vim: map a key to conditionally override built-in behavior

2013-02-19 Thread ping
On 2/19/2013 4:20 AM, Paul Isambert wrote: You can use expr to define a mapping with a function: function! SIDMap() if line(.) == 1 wincol(.) == 1 return :q\r else return h endif endfunction nnoremap expr h SIDMap() thanks! I still don't

Re: Bad behavior in McVim. Capitalization of First word in a line.

2013-02-19 Thread DaveLG526
On Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:12:57 PM UTC-8, DaveLG526 wrote: Somehow I have gotten MacVim to capitalize the first word in a new line.I dont want this! I may have played around with some bash script too as in bash I get the same thing happening. Any ideas. As an update, I deleted my

Re: PRIVATE [was Re: ios vim and plugins]

2013-02-19 Thread Eric Weir
On Feb 19, 2013, at 3:37 PM, Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org wrote: I really wanted to note: _Bird by Bird_ is a favorite of mine... Obviously she's a favorite of mine. So wise. And not just about writing. And so funny. Another favorite is Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write. The table of

Re: vim: map a key to conditionally override built-in behavior

2013-02-19 Thread ping
On 2/19/2013 5:50 PM, ping wrote: On 2/19/2013 4:20 AM, Paul Isambert wrote: You can use expr to define a mapping with a function: function! SIDMap() if line(.) == 1 wincol(.) == 1 this works, thanks! if line(.) == 1 virtcol(.) == 1 return :q\r else

Re: Path easy-search

2013-02-19 Thread ZyX
суббота, 9 апреля 2011 г., 12:53:45 UTC+4 пользователь Andy Wokula написал: 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.

Re: Bad behavior in McVim. Capitalization of First word in a line.

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Schneider
Did you install textexpander recently? On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:38 PM, DaveLG526 david.gillo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:12:57 PM UTC-8, DaveLG526 wrote: Somehow I have gotten MacVim to capitalize the first word in a new line.I dont want this! I may have played

Re: Bad behavior in McVim. Capitalization of First word in a line.

2013-02-19 Thread DaveLG526
On Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:12:57 PM UTC-8, DaveLG526 wrote: Somehow I have gotten MacVim to capitalize the first word in a new line.I dont want this! I may have played around with some bash script too as in bash I get the same thing happening. Any ideas. I did try this. Issued

Re: Bad behavior in McVim. Capitalization of First word in a line.

2013-02-19 Thread DaveLG526
On Sunday, February 17, 2013 9:12:57 PM UTC-8, DaveLG526 wrote: Somehow I have gotten MacVim to capitalize the first word in a new line.I dont want this! I may have played around with some bash script too as in bash I get the same thing happening. Any ideas. Thanks..That was it! I

Make %D(enter dir) in 'errorformat` work but without noticing it in quickfix list

2013-02-19 Thread Nick Shyrokovskiy
Hi, everyone. This is from compiler/gcc.vim \%D%*\\a[%*\\d]:\ Entering\ directory\ `%f', \%X%*\\a[%*\\d]:\ Leaving\ directory\ `%f', \%D%*\\a:\ Entering\ directory\ `%f', \%X%*\\a:\ Leaving\ directory\ `%f', and it works great with recursive make, but I don't want to see messages like

Re: cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 19/02/13 12:43, Franco wrote: It seems I cannot unsubscribe from this mailing list. I sent a mail both to vim-unsubscr...@vim.org and to the google address one. I received the confirmation but replying lead to nothing (vim.org address) and to a Delivery to the following recipient failed

Re: cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread stosss
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Tony Mechelynck antoine.mechely...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/02/13 12:43, Franco wrote: It seems I cannot unsubscribe from this mailing list. I sent a mail both to vim-unsubscr...@vim.org and to the google address one. I received the confirmation but replying