Re: Vim Indent

2015-02-03 Thread Harisha Navilarekallu
On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 21:53:06 UTC+5:30, Ben Fritz wrote: On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 12:15:17 AM UTC-6, Harisha Navilarekallu wrote: On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 11:09:11 UTC+5:30, Ben Fritz wrote: On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 9:21:39 PM UTC-6, Harisha Navilarekallu

Re: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread Sven Guckes
* Sayth Renshaw flebber.c...@gmail.com [2015-02-03 09:51]: so it's not me? no - it's everyone *like* you. :-P Then should the manpages be tagged in such a way that a tool like CTRL-P could be used with multiple search terms to better help users locate info that would help? i wonder.. have

Re: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread Sven Guckes
* Sayth Renshaw flebber.c...@gmail.com [2015-02-03 08:54]: How is the best way in vim to use the help system when I am unsure exactly what term or phrase to look for? try to guess a word - or a part of it. enter it right after :help - and then press CTRL-D: :help wordCTRL-D example:

RE: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread John Beckett
Sayth Renshaw wrote: How is the best way in vim to use the help system when I am unsure exactly what term or phrase to look for? The tip has some useful info: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Learn_to_use_help Your question about vertical splits is very general and an example of what you mean might

Re: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread Sayth Renshaw
so it's not me? Then should the manpages be tagged in such a way that a tool like CTRL-P could be used with multiple search terms to better help users locate info that would help? Sayth -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the

Re: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread Sayth Renshaw
* Sayth Renshaw flebber.c...@gmail.com [2015-02-03 08:54]: How is the best way in vim to use the help system when I am unsure exactly what term or phrase to look for? try to guess a word - or a part of it. enter it right after :help - and then press CTRL-D: :help wordCTRL-D example:

Re: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 02.02.15 23:44, Sayth Renshaw wrote: How is the best way in vim to use the help system when I am unsure exactly what term or phrase to look for? Ah, that is a common weakness of documentation in general - compare for example, manpages. When a manual documents How, not What, then knowing a

Re: gd search pattern stored in q/ history

2015-02-03 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2015-02-03, Paul wrote: Long ago, the gd search for an identifier definition would cause the corresponding search pattern to be stored in the search history, invoked with q/. These days, it isn't, thought it can still be accessed via the / register. It comes prefixed with a very-no-magic

Re: Vim Indent

2015-02-03 Thread Ben Fritz
On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 12:15:17 AM UTC-6, Harisha Navilarekallu wrote: On Tuesday, 3 February 2015 11:09:11 UTC+5:30, Ben Fritz wrote: On Monday, February 2, 2015 at 9:21:39 PM UTC-6, Harisha Navilarekallu wrote: On my new laptop, I have installed gvim7.4 on Win-7. With this

Re: Any poets here?

2015-02-03 Thread Chris Lott
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Wondering if there are any poets here who use vim in writing poetry, either in the messy creative phase or the later refining, polishing, and editing phase. If so, I’d be interested in knowing how you use vim, how you

gd search pattern stored in q/ history

2015-02-03 Thread Paul
Long ago, the gd search for an identifier definition would cause the corresponding search pattern to be stored in the search history, invoked with q/. These days, it isn't, thought it can still be accessed via the / register. It comes prefixed with a very-no-magic flag \V. Is there a simple

Re: How can I better use Vim help

2015-02-03 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 03.02.15 00:47, Sayth Renshaw wrote: so it's not me? No, Vim's on-line help does not have a thin edge, AFAICT. OK, if you read through enough verbiage at :h help, there is mention of :helpgrep, which should be in an initial overview paragraph, I suggest. If you try e.g. :helpgrep foldlevel