Is there a way to move a cursor down to a certain column and create a line at the same time?

2012-06-25 Thread Daniel Choi
When the cursor is positions, say, at column 39, in either normal or insert mode, I want to create a line below that and position the cursor at column 39 in it. What is the most efficient way to do this? -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply

Re: Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

2012-05-08 Thread Daniel Choi
Thanks for pointing this out. I will rectify. On May 7, 4:07 pm, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:45:18PM EDT, Daniel Choi wrote: I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project, `goog`. goog is a command line tool that lets you perform Google

Re: Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

2012-05-08 Thread Daniel Choi
OK it should work now on Ruby 1.8.7 I don't have a man page yet, but I'll work on that, and a language flag On May 7, 4:07 pm, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:45:18PM EDT, Daniel Choi wrote: I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project, `goog

Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

2012-05-07 Thread Daniel Choi
I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project, `goog`. goog is a command line tool that lets you perform Google searches from the command line. Along with your query, you can specify the number of pages of results you want and the time range you are interested in. You can output the

todo.rb is a todo list manager that uses ed edit syntax

2012-01-29 Thread Daniel Choi
This is not strictly Vim related, but since this project pertains to Vim's ancestor ed, I thought it appropriate to post this announcement here. todo.rb is a todo list tool with a unobtrusive, noncaptive, Unix-style interface. It leverages Unix filters to let you view your tasks by context or

Re: elinks.vim

2012-01-19 Thread Daniel Choi
On Jan 19, 5:41 am, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani gia.gio...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, I have a problem: if I go on an URL and stroke \o or \O, the plugin says Opened lik in elinks in the status bar... but it is not true: nothing happens! I'm on kubuntu 11.10. Do you have elinks open in another

Re: elinks.vim

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel Choi
When I have time I'll learn how vim-addon-manager works upgrade elinks.vim and some of my other plugins to work with it. Thanks for the tip. On Jan 18, 4:27 am, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani gia.gio...@gmail.com wrote:  elinks.vim  Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com Jan 17 06:06PM -0800

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: elinks.vim

2012-01-18 Thread Daniel Choi
Could someone who knows how to make a vim-addon-manager compatible plugin be kind enough to fork my github project and add the requisite metadata stuff? I can pull the changes back in. On Jan 18, 8:03 am, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible? Use this as name :

elinks.vim

2012-01-17 Thread Daniel Choi
This lightweight plugin integrates Vim with elinks. https://github.com/danchoi/elinks.vim -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Is there any way to have Vim react to a notification from another process?

2011-10-07 Thread Daniel Choi
I'm trying to figure out a way to show some kind of alert inside Vim that is not triggered by a keypress from the user (CursorMoved or CursorHold), but by some notification from the environment that Vim is running is. Is there any way to do this, or is this just impossible? For example, the

Introducing Poddb, a podcast aggregator with a Vim interface

2011-09-16 Thread Daniel Choi
. Daniel Choi Cambridge, MA -- Sent from vmail. http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

About how many vim users are out there?

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Choi
Is there any way even to estimate this to an order of magnitude? -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Announcing ri.vim interactive ri mode for Vim

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Choi
Hi everyone, I published a new Vim plugin / Ruby gem, ri.vim. It's an interactive ri mode for Vim. ri is the command line documentation printer for Ruby. http://danielchoi.com/software/ri_vim.html Beta-tester feedback would be great. Many thanks, -- You received this message from the vim_use

Re: Announcing ri.vim interactive ri mode for Vim

2011-07-07 Thread Daniel Choi
fixes that. Dan On Jul 7, 4:58 pm, Sung Pae sung...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: I published a new Vim plugin / Ruby gem, ri.vim. It's an interactive ri mode for Vim. ri is the command line documentation printer for Ruby. http

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

2011-07-02 Thread Daniel Choi
...@gmail.com subject: Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: If and don't work for you, then try these: will play the next track will play the previous Now and work. also works. gives

Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Choi
as a Ruby gem. Thanks everyone. Daniel Choi Cambridge, MA http://kajasoftware.com http://danielchoi.com/software -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Re: vim plugins www.vim.org - future

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Choi
I applaud this effort. I started writing VimScript applications recently, and I ended up wrapping my Vim applications and plugins in Ruby gems because I think it's significantly easier for people to install and get up and running that way. I know you're addressing other issues besides ease of

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Choi
, Jul 01 11:48 PM +02:00 2011 to: vim_use@googlegroups.com cc: dhc...@gmail.com subject: Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: Today I'm releasing a Vim plugin that lets you control iTunes

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Choi
@googlegroups.com cc: dhc...@gmail.com subject: Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: Today I'm releasing a Vim plugin that lets you control iTunes without leaving Vim. http://danielchoi.com

Introducing Vnews, a Vim-based newsfeed reader

2011-02-22 Thread Daniel Choi
I'm releasing another VimScript/Ruby application today called Vnews. It's a lightweight newsfeed reader that works inside a Vim session and uses MySQL to store feed data. http://danielchoi.com/software/vnews.html I welcome feature suggestions and bug reports. Daniel Choi Cambridge, MA

introducing SoyWiki, a wiki for Vim users

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Choi
Building on what I learned from making Vmail, the Vim client for Gmail, I made another VimScript+Ruby application. It's called SoyWiki. It's wiki engine built on top of Vim and Git. http://danielchoi.com/software/soywiki.html If you're interested in using this sort of software, please try it

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Choi
, 2010 at 03:04 PM, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Grahame Thanks for the bug report and the encouraging feedback. Could you email me the whole stack trace that you see, or is that error message all that you see? If you look in vmail.log, you may see more information. The log entries

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-18 Thread Daniel Choi
/vmail.html This is the first release of vmail so there is a lot of room for improvement and feedback will be highly appreciated Thanks, Daniel Choi Hi Daniel I loaded your vmail as soon as I saw it. I'm using PCLinuxOS, 2010 on my desktop and 2009 on my netbook. It was very easy

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-18 Thread Daniel Choi
This is the first release of vmail so there is a lot of room for improvement and feedback will be highly appreciated Thanks, Daniel Choi Hi Daniel I loaded your vmail as soon as I saw it. I'm using PCLinuxOS, 2010 on my desktop and 2009 on my netbook. It was very easy to install as there's

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-17 Thread Daniel Choi
of the number of links and other information available. On Dec 14, 2:49pm, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working on over the last two weeks, but which I've been daydreaming about for over a year. It's called vmail. It's

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Choi
Thanks for the suggestion. I do want to make vmail gmail-user- friendly... On Dec 15, 4:06 am, A. S. Budden abud...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 December 2010 19:49, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working on over the last two

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Choi
some commentary along these lines. On Dec 15, 11:33 am, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:49:01PM EST, Daniel Choi wrote: Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working on over the last two weeks, but which I've been daydreaming about

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Choi
: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:49:01PM EST, Daniel Choi wrote: Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working on over the last two weeks, but which I've been daydreaming about for over a year. It's called vmail. It's a Vim client for Gmail. It's a hybrid Ruby

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Choi
at 05:33 PM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:49:01PM EST, Daniel Choi wrote: Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working on over the last two weeks, but which I've been daydreaming about for over a year. It's called vmail

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-15 Thread Daniel Choi
Thanks for the suggestion. I look forward to making a Windows compatible release too. I hope some Window developers can help me with this. On Dec 15, 4:06 am, A. S. Budden abud...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 December 2010 19:49, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: Today I'm releasing a new open

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-15 Thread Daniel Choi
That's a very good idea. I'll put this on the to-do list. On Dec 15, 8:01 am, Stephan Weller stephan.wel...@am.uni-erlangen.de wrote: Hello Daniel, It's called vmail. It's a Vim client for Gmail. It's a hybrid Ruby/VimScript application. actually I am also quite interested about writing

Re: introducing vmail

2010-12-15 Thread Daniel Choi
You're right, there is no way to call it from vim directly yet, but I'll make sure you can in a future release. Thank you for suggesting that. On Dec 15, 9:50 am, Karol Samborski edv.ka...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Daniel, I've just installed vmail and it's great! But one thing is annoying, it

introducing vmail

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Choi
This is the first release of vmail so there is a lot of room for improvement and feedback will be highly appreciated Thanks, Daniel Choi -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http

EOL vs lbr when writing prose

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Choi
I've been writing my text documents in vim using hard line breaks and reflowing the text as needed with gqap (via a shortcut). Then I saw this blog post http://tech.geoff.me/2008/05/vim-word-processor.html and tried using Vim in a more word processor-y mode, with soft line wrapping. After

Re: EOL vs lbr when writing prose

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Choi
Thanks. Very good points. But another big problem I have with soft wrapping in Vim is that it actually makes indented text harder to work with. If you want to indent a block of text -- like a block quotation, or bulleted text in a list -- in Vim, you do this by inserting line breaks and putting

Re: EOL vs lbr when writing prose

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Choi
To illustrate what I meant: This is normal text. This is indented text that has hanging indents that are generated by EOFs and spaces at the beginning of each line. There seems to be no way with Vim to display the text above using soft wrapping. On Feb 23, 12:35 pm, Tom

shortcut for piping text through uni2ascii?

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel Choi
Sorry if this is a newbie question: This is what I type on the command line each time after selecting the text: ,'!uni2ascii -eq I'd like to shorten this into a keyboard shortcut. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: shortcut for piping text through uni2ascii?

2009-02-18 Thread Daniel Choi
Thank you. I was already doing the up arrow thing. But your mapping is just what I needed. Thanks. On Feb 18, 9:46 pm, John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Choi wrote: This is what I type on the command line each time after selecting the text: ,'!uni2ascii -eq I'd like

Re: how do you create a gutter or textwidth threshold for softwrapping with linebreak?

2009-02-13 Thread Daniel Choi
Thanks a lot Ben. This is great help and clarification. On Feb 13, 2:55 pm, Ben Fritz fritzophre...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 13, 10:52 am, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt,*.rdoc,README,TODO,CHANGELOG,NOTES setlocal lbr You should also set wrap

yaml syntax highlighting flaws

2008-12-13 Thread Daniel Choi
YAML syntax highlighting gets messed up when there are string values with HTML tags. This throws off all the colors from that point onward. Does anyone know an easy way to stop HTML from triggering color changes? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: yaml syntax highlighting flaws

2008-12-13 Thread Daniel Choi
Apostrophes in strings seems to have the same bad effect. On Dec 13, 10:37 pm, Daniel Choi dhc...@gmail.com wrote: YAML syntax highlighting gets messed up when there are string values with HTML tags. This throws off all the colors from that point onward. Does anyone know an easy way to stop

Re: is there a shortcut for underlining a word with dashes on the next line?

2008-10-26 Thread Daniel Choi
or key sequence? Many thanks. On Oct 25, 6:56 pm, John Beckett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Choi wrote: I use Markdown for a lot of things, and it would be convenient to be able to type things like this: Header == That was discussed here a while ago and I think it was Andy who