ous kinds. I wrote all of these initially in (g)vim and then prepared
them for publication using LyX, which I find much better for this than any
ordinary word processor. Vim is ideal for cutting, pasting, spell-checking
etc and all this is best done separately from the fancy stuff.
Anthony
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I've now resubscribed to the list and have also added my normal domain
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but given that one can do practically anything in vim, I thought I'd
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to the conclusion that there is
no really satisfactory way to avoid the problem apart from vigilance.
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For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Perhaps make a test vimrc file with just the one line to see if that
works? If it does,k there must be something the regular file that is
precenting it working.
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and pasting it?
Anthony
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I normally read emails from this list via mutt, but I've just found that
they also go into Inbox in my gmail account. I don't want this to
happen. Is there any way to prevent it?
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On 12 Feb 2013, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
On 14:27 Tue 12 Feb , Anthony Campbell wrote:
I normally read emails from this list via mutt, but I've just found that
they also go into Inbox in my gmail account. I don't want this to
happen. Is there any way to prevent it?
AC
On 12 Feb 2013, Aaron Webster wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechely...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/02/13 15:27, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I normally read emails from this list via mutt, but I've just found
that
they also go
On 11 Nov 2012, Chris Lott wrote:
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk
wrote:
Sorry if it is uncharitable, but I still find it difficult to understand
how it is possible to write extended prose from scratch without making
numerous corrections
in principle,
which is probably why I stayed with Vim.
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them and then to paste the result into
Lyx if I want to print it as a book or something similar.
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the latex code in English, but it still gets converted to Greek when I
run Latex on the result. Obviously I have selectlanguage{greek} in the
preamble.
I realize that this as much a Latex as a Vim question, but does anyone
on this knowledgeable list know of a solution?
AC
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On 27 Jul 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I occasionally need to write a Greek text in Latex.
This works with enc=greek and keymap=greek. But I cannot put in any
latex codes, such as /pagebreak, because they appear in Greek script and
Latex doesn't recognize them.
I tried reloading the file
was that it is
a feature, not a bug. But I find it annoying so I have this in my vimrc:
prevents cursor moving backwards from insert
inoremap ESC ESCl
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On 17 Jan 2012, Charles Campbell wrote:
Anthony Campbell wrote:
I want to modify a large number of files (400+).
I can semi-automate this as follows by recording the keystrokes: (1)find
a particular word, (2)delete a character that follows that world,
(3)repeat for a second instance
.
This is pretty quick for half a dozen files but not for over 400. I feel
sure there must be some way to fully automate this (perhaps with argdo?)
but I can't figure out how. Is it possible?
Anthony
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that
fits.
If you don't use a US keyboard it's best to avoid characters that differ
on your keyboard. I've been caught out a couple of times like that, when
an upgrade changed my default keyboard and I found my password no longer
worked. I now avoid using, for example, # and @.
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or ^D.)
Can you please, fix it?
or let me know how to escape from that state if you know that.
Thank you.
Nothing to do with vim. It's a linux feature. Just do Ctrl-q to get
back to normal.
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On 21 Sep 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 21 Sep 2011, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
I use xmonad as well, but I cannot reproduce this error.
What version of Vim are you using? Can you try the same procedure in a
different window manager and see if you get the same result?
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On 22 Sep 2011, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
Anthony Campbell, Thu 2011-09-22 @ 09:13:10+0100:
I am using a simple workround, which is to alias gvim to gvim -f to
prevent it forking. Not ideal but at least it doesn't crash.
Sorry I can't be much more help. I'm simply not able to recreate
.
-
If I use vim instead of gvim, everything is normal. If I use gvim or
start gvim from a menu (dmenu), everything works correctly.
Any clues to what is happening here?
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not happen with Icewm. I tried using both xterm and rxvt-unicode - same
problem.
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for me so I put it in .xinitrc, along with various other
key remappings.
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On 10 Apr 2011, Ben Schmidt wrote:
On 9/04/11 6:51 PM, Andy Wokula wrote:
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
/$/\r
NB. The first line usually gives an error message : E16 invalid range,
but I find I can ignore this without any ill-effects.
Anthony
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,
but I've built up my knowledge from the help files. I pick up useful
tips from time to time on this list, and when I've had specific problems
I couldn't solve, people here have been very kind with supplying
solutions. I've gradually constructed my own .vimrc and .gvimrc files.
Anthony
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next month and
Vim doesn't worry me (admittedly, I started using it quite a few years
ago). I find it useful to browse through the documentation when I've
nothing better to do; I quite often come across useful short cuts and
better methods of doing things.
Anthony
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On 08 Apr 2011, Eric Weir wrote:
On Apr 8, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I dislike word processors. (I've been forced to use OpenOffice for one
particular purpose recently and hate it.) I think that the process of
generating prose should be separate from producing print
I have a directory with over 400 files, some of which contain a
particular string I want to modify manually. Is there any way to tell
vim to edit just the files which contain the specified string?
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On 15 Mar 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I have a directory with over 400 files, some of which contain a
particular string I want to modify manually. Is there any way to
tell vim to edit just the files which contain the specified
string
the act of writing from generating the publishable text version seems to
me to be essentially correct, and this is what I use vim for.
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On 16 Dec 2010, Tim Chase wrote:
On 12/16/2010 10:35 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote:
On 16 Dec 2010, Tim Chase wrote:
:g/\%^\|\n\@=\s*\n/,/\n\n\|\%$/j
Thanks very much - that works perfectly. Now I must try to understand
_how_ it works!
It breaks down as
:g/pattern1/action
where
I occasionally want to eliminate all the text wrapping in a file (to be
able to import it into oowriter).
I have tried setting tw=0 and fo-=t but text wrapping persists. I can
get the effect by setting tw to a large value, such as 2000, but is
there a better way?
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by
Smashwords to produce e-books. Unfortunately, Smashwords won't accept
any other format, and it's a long haul to produce the files in Linux.
The only way that seems to work is first to convert them to plain text,
then import that into oowriter, and finally save in doc format.
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On 16 Dec 2010, Tim Chase wrote:
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:
:g/\%^\|\n\@=\s*\n/,/\n\n
On 04 Nov 2010, Ben Fritz wrote:
On Nov 2, 11:03 am, Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk wrote:
In insert mode, if a line starts with - the next line is indented. This is
not what I want.
After a lot of experimenting, I found that it was because either
textwidth or wrapmargin
On 02 Nov 2010, Simon Ruderich wrote:
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:03:51PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
In insert mode, if a line starts with - the next line is indented. This is
not what I want.
After a lot of experimenting, I found that it was because either
textwidth or wrapmargin
to have to
keep correcting lines with initial -.
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Do
time
and like. It's available from Debian (ttf-inconsolata). It's described
as a monospace font for pretty code listings and for the terminal.
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On 12 Feb 2010, Michael Henry wrote:
[snip]
You get all that for free on this mailing list, for which I was
just being thankful :-)
Michael Henry
Quite agree about that. I was just curious about the reason for
compiling it oneself.
Anthony
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with Vim, you can get help with Vim for your particular
operating system.
:-)
Michael Henry
Any use not to use the .deb package for vim-gtk or whatever?
Anthony
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something
here? Is anyone else still using vim for writing lengthy texts?
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