Re: vim: session of sessions

2012-08-08 Thread S. Cowles
On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, ping wrote: here is another approach to this issue. 1) multiple virtual terminal sessions: i switched to tmux from screen/byobu last year. window navigation, for me, is a critical requirement and it is quite straightforward in tmux. the windows i create in tmux have

Re: vim: session of sessions

2012-07-13 Thread S. Cowles
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, ping wrote: //what's my current issue then: now, it looks I easily run into a situation when I have 9+ screen sessions (or windows in GNU screen term) in a GNU screen instance, but still need some new ones. ... * switching beyond 9 windows is painful in screen, if you ever

Re: How to put a character the statusline?

2011-12-12 Thread S. Cowles
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, S. Cowles wrote: On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Bee wrote: I know how to put the decimal and hex equivalent of the character under the cursor in the statusline: set statusline+=%b decimal byte '98' set statusline+=\x%02B hex byte 'x62' How to put the character itself

Re: How to put a character the statusline?

2011-12-11 Thread S. Cowles
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011, Bee wrote: I know how to put the decimal and hex equivalent of the character under the cursor in the statusline: set statusline+=%b decimal byte '98' set statusline+=\x%02B hex byte 'x62' How to put the character itself in the statusline? here is another

Re: How To Emulate An ISPF Editor Feature in Vim

2011-05-25 Thread S. Cowles
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Roy Fulbright wrote: I know this dates me, but back in the day I used to exclude all lines in the ISPF editor using X and then use 'find' to display (unexclude) lines that matched the find criteria. I have been trying to do the same thing with Vim by folding all lines

Re: Cygwin+Windows 7+gvim woes

2011-01-05 Thread S. Cowles
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Yosi Izaq wrote: Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 02:04:43 -0800 (PST) From: Yosi Izaq izaq...@gmail.com Reply-To: vim_use@googlegroups.com To: vim_use vim_use@googlegroups.com Subject: Cygwin+Windows 7+gvim woes Hi, I've upgrade from XP to windows 7 and now gvim launched from Cygwin

Re: Using a variable as a command's 'count' argument

2009-07-29 Thread S. Cowles
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Daniel Tripp wrote: From: Daniel Tripp qpmirruvnnvwoca...@dt.theorem.ca Say that I have set a variable like this: :let desiredcolumn=42 And now I want to define a mapping that will go to that column on the current line, using the bar command. My problem is that I