Re: Unable to compile Vim with Python 3, Perl, and OLE support for Windows XP with MinGW

2013-03-01 Thread cyboman
On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:40:53 PM UTC-5, cyboman wrote: I tried to post similar question vim_dev group, but I think I posted in the wrong group. I apologize in advance if you have seen this question before. I'm going to try to post it here. Issue I need to compile Vim with Python 3

Re: Unable to compile Vim with Python 3, Perl, and OLE support for Windows XP with MinGW

2013-03-01 Thread cyboman
On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:42:30 PM UTC-5, cyboman wrote: On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:40:53 PM UTC-5, cyboman wrote: I tried to post similar question vim_dev group, but I think I posted in the wrong group. I apologize in advance if you have seen this question before. I'm going to try

Re: set runtimepath

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 4:22:52 PM UTC-5, coot_. wrote: On 15:31 Sun 25 Nov , rail shafigulin wrote: I was trying to understand how runtimepath option works and was experimenting with it. I bumped onto a small problem. I set up my runtimepath and copy mycolor.vim file

change the filetype

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
I have a certain set of settings for cpp files. All those settings are located in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp.vim I would like to apply those settings to c files as well. I tried to put the following code into ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim set filetype=cpp but I got the error saying that the

different colorschemes for different filetypes in the split window

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
Does anybody know if there is a way to set different colorschemes for different filetypes in the split window? Any help is appreciated. -- 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

Re: change the filetype

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 5:54:34 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2012-11-25, cyboman wrote: I have a certain set of settings for cpp files. All those settings are located in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp.vim I would like to apply those settings to c files as well. I tried

unmap

2012-11-22 Thread cyboman
I'm need to unmap a few of my mappings, but for some reason the unmap command doesn't work. To see what mappings I have I enter the following command :map The output I get looks like this: n -x*@dd n Q *@x Which led me to believe that -x and Q are mapped in the normal mode. However

shiftround option

2012-11-17 Thread cyboman
I'm reading an online book, Learning Vim the hardway, and it talks about the shiftround option. I tried it but it didn't affect anything. The effect was the same as before. I tried reading the help but it wasn't very helpful :) Has anybody used this option before? What is the advantage of it?

map the _ key to move the line up

2012-11-17 Thread cyboman
I have a - key mapped to move the line down. Here it is map - ddp I want to have a command opposite to it, _ to move the line up. I tried map _ ddkP but it doesn't work. If I'm on the last line of text it will move the text two lines up and if I'm on the first line it simply deletes the lines,

:hardcopy

2011-09-13 Thread cyboman
i need to print some stuff from vim and i always used the hardcopy command for this. it always worked for me, but for some reason when i do it now instead of keywords (typedef, union, uint8 etc) i see big black rectangle covering them. does anybody know what happened and how to fix it? any help

reload syntax file without restarting vim

2011-09-09 Thread cyboman
sometimes i need to make modifications to the syntax file but in order for changes to take effect i need to restart vim. is it possible for changes to take effect without a restart? does anybody know how to do it? any help is appreciated -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist.

Re: unable to change default font

2011-08-19 Thread cyboman
On Aug 18, 10:46 am, Ricardo Silva rjpdasi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Try using 'set guifont=Consolas:h11' instead and also move the statement to the end of _vimrc file. Ricardo Silva On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, cyboman rail.shafigu...@gmail.com wrote: i decided to change

unable to change default font

2011-08-18 Thread cyboman
i decided to change default font and included the following command into my _vimrc file set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI but the strange thing is that Vim doesn't seem to care. i closed it and then reopened but for some reason the font is not set to what i told it to be. i even rebooted my machine

Re: vim swap files

2011-08-12 Thread cyboman
On Aug 11, 5:49 pm, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2011-08-11, cyboman wrote: i set my backup and swap directories to ~\vimfiles\data\swap ~\vimfiles\data\backup however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions of the same project, meaning that quite

vim swap files

2011-08-11 Thread cyboman
i set my backup and swap directories to ~\vimfiles\data\swap ~\vimfiles\data\backup however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions of the same project, meaning that quite often i have vim open two files in different directories with the same name. because of the my setting

highlighting blocks without highlighting what's inside

2011-07-08 Thread cyboman
my company is using a proprietary language. to mark scope in the code they use BEGIN and END keywords. END keyword is also used along with WHILE and FOR. i would like to be able to highlight BEGIN and END with one color and WHILE/FOR END with another. i looked through vim documentation but

Re: setline vs call setline

2011-07-02 Thread cyboman
On Jul 1, 1:38 pm, Taylor Hedberg tmhedb...@gmail.com wrote: Vim scripts are composed of ex commands. Functions are expressions, not ex commands, so they can't be used bare in a script; that is, they must be wrapped in a proper command. Not a valid Vimscript statement:     foo() Valid:

how to get the last line number

2011-07-01 Thread cyboman
i'm writing a small script and it requires the knowledge of the last line number. is there a command in vim i could use to get it? any help is appreciated -- 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

Re: how to get the last line number

2011-07-01 Thread cyboman
On Jul 1, 11:53 am, Taylor Hedberg tmhedb...@gmail.com wrote: line('$') should do it. :help line() thanks, it worked. -- 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

setline vs call setline

2011-07-01 Thread cyboman
i'm writing a small script which uses setline. i'm somewhat new to vim scripting. whenever setline was called i would get an error saying that this is not an editor command. after looking up in the documentation for setline, i changed it to call setline and everything started working. but i'm

Re: syntax highlight unusual strings

2011-06-29 Thread cyboman
On Jun 28, 5:07 pm, Charles Campbell charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov wrote: cyboman wrote: my company is using a propitiatory language. there are 4 kind of different kind of strings that can be defined. imystring xmystring bmystring mystring [snip] Here's one attempt... syn

Re: syntax highlight unusual strings

2011-06-29 Thread cyboman
On Jun 29, 9:12 am, ZyX zyx@gmail.com wrote: Reply to message «Re: syntax highlight unusual strings», sent 15:37:51 29 June 2011, Wednesday by cyboman: what do z and e in \b\ze, \x\ze, \i\ze stand for? :h /\ze Original message: On Jun 28, 5:07 pm, Charles Campbell

syntax highlight unusual strings

2011-06-28 Thread cyboman
my company is using a propitiatory language. there are 4 kind of different kind of strings that can be defined. imystring xmystring bmystring mystring i'm writing a syntax file and want to be able to highlight strings in a regular manner except when they start with a letter, i.e. i want

what algorithm does :cnext use to jump to a correct location

2011-06-27 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to write a small script which will jump between info/ warning/error messages, i.e. instead of jumping to the next message, which is what :cnext does, it will jump to the next error message. the problem is that i don't know how does :cnext do it. i have the information from the

indentation based on a file type

2011-06-24 Thread cyboman
i found solutions online on how to do indentation based on a filetype however none of them worked except the last one. i would really appreciate if someone could explain to me what was i doing wrong. here are the solutions that didn't work my .vimrc contains set shiftwidth=2 set tabstop=2

difference between buffers and windows

2011-06-14 Thread cyboman
i'm not new to vim but somewhat confused about this. what is the difference between buffers and windows in vim? and is it significant? any help is appreciated. -- 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

getquickfix list, pattern

2011-06-14 Thread cyboman
help for getquickfixlist says that the pattern entry is the search pattern used to locate the error. i echoed it into a file and looked at the value of the pattern and it is always empty. when i read help i thought pattern would be one of the values used in errorformat, however as it seems it is

Re: getquickfix list, pattern

2011-06-14 Thread cyboman
On Jun 14, 3:53 pm, cyboman rail.shafigu...@gmail.com wrote: help for getquickfixlist says that the pattern entry is the search pattern used to locate the error. i echoed it into a file and looked at the value of the pattern and it is always empty.  when i read help i thought pattern would

unmatch the syntax

2011-06-02 Thread cyboman
i'm writing code that which syntax is very similar to vhdl however the code is case sensitive. i would like to be able to made some modifications to the syntax highlighting without modifying the actual vhdl.vim. i understood that i need to put my syntax file into .vim/ after/syntax/vhdl.vim.

Re: quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-24 Thread cyboman
On May 23, 8:35 pm, Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au wrote: First, note that it doesn't behave as you claim. I saved your example into a file, sourced your :set commands then did :cfile on the file saved earlier, and I got this in the quickfix window: || filepath1,123, Warning

Re: quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-24 Thread cyboman
On May 23, 8:35 pm, Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au wrote: First, note that it doesn't behave as you claim. I saved your example into a file, sourced your :set commands then did :cfile on the file saved earlier, and I got this in the quickfix window: || filepath1,123, Warning

Re: quick fix to jump between warnings and errors

2011-05-24 Thread cyboman
On May 4, 9:10 am, Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On 30/04/11 5:13 AM, cyboman wrote: the compiler and lint tool my company is using generate 3 kinds of messages:errors,warningsand info. right now my keys are mapped in such a way that inquickfixwindow

errorformat, error/warning number with letters in it

2011-05-23 Thread cyboman
my compiler produces errors/warnings in the following format: path\to\fiile1,line_number level[tag]: message (file1,53 Warning[Te551]: message for file 1) where level is either warning/info/error, and tag is usually two letters and a number (Te551). right now i have my errorformat set to set

Re: quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-22 Thread cyboman
On May 22, 10:38 am, Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On 22/05/11 12:44 PM, cyboman wrote: the lint we are using outputs warnings and info messages. they are all in the same format: file_path,line_number message_type message_type_number: message where message_type

quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-21 Thread cyboman
the lint we are using outputs warnings and info messages. they are all in the same format: file_path,line_number message_type message_type_number: message where message_type is either warning or info however for some reason when a warning message is followed by an info message quick fix puts all

Re: break line that is too line in QuickFix list

2011-05-21 Thread cyboman
On May 21, 2:42 pm, Marcin Szamotulski msza...@gmail.com wrote: On 13:55 Sat 21 May     , Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Ben! On Sa, 21 Mai 2011, Ben Schmidt wrote: I tried writing some autocommands, but they didn't work, because it seems the buffer type isn't set until after

Re: regular expressions in errorformat

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
On May 20, 4:13 pm, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2011-05-20, cyboman wrote: does anybody know if it is possible to use regular expressions in errorformat option? and if yes then how can i do it? Yes it is.  There is not a help tag for that particular entry, but if you

do not expand ~/

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
is there an option telling vim not to expand ~/ ? thanks -- 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: error file for quick fix

2011-05-19 Thread cyboman
On May 18, 1:15 pm, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2011-05-18, cyboman wrote: On May 17, 4:02 pm, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2011-05-17, cyboman wrote: On May 11, 9:29 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: On 11/05/11 11:11 PM, cyboman wrote: i have

errorformat traps extra messages

2011-05-19 Thread cyboman
i'm new to using this option and find it very useful. the compiler and link tools we use at work produce info, warning and error messages. i'm trying to play with errorformat to distinguish between the messages but so far unsuccessful. for some reason it traps info and warning messages together.

Re: error file for quick fix

2011-05-18 Thread cyboman
On May 17, 4:02 pm, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2011-05-17, cyboman wrote: On May 11, 9:29 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: On 11/05/11 11:11 PM, cyboman wrote: i have the following settings in my _vimrc for make set makeef=error.err the errorfile for :make and :grep

Re: gvim CRITICAL error

2011-05-17 Thread cyboman
On May 17, 5:59 am, Albie Janse van Rensburg albie@gmail.com wrote: cyboman wrote on 17/05/2011 05:00 AM: i installed gvim on my linux machine, but i'm getting a critical error. it doesn't really bug me, since gvim is working fine but i would like to know why i have. this is what i

Re: error file for quick fix

2011-05-17 Thread cyboman
On May 11, 9:29 am, Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schm...@yahoo.com.au wrote: On 11/05/11 11:11 PM, cyboman wrote: i have the following settings in my _vimrc for make set makeef=error.err the errorfile for :make and :grep set makeprg=gmake.exe\ --win32 set errorformat=%f\(%l\)\ :\ %m,%C\ \ %p

gvim CRITICAL error

2011-05-16 Thread cyboman
i installed gvim on my linux machine, but i'm getting a critical error. it doesn't really bug me, since gvim is working fine but i would like to know why i have. this is what i sometimes have displayed in the terminal: ** (gvim:27474): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height = -1'

makeprg, WinXP and spaces

2011-05-13 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to set a path for my gmake.exe in WinXP. unfortunately it just happens so that company i'm working for has gmake.exe on a per project basis. i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\username\projects\projectname\trunk\tools \gmake.exe i think i figured out how i'm going to set my makeprg but

Re: makeprg, WinXP and spaces

2011-05-13 Thread cyboman
On May 13, 4:42 pm, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2011-05-13, cyboman wrote: On May 13, 3:52 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2011-05-13, cyboman wrote: i'm trying to set a path for my gmake.exe in WinXP. unfortunately it just happens so that company i'm working for has

search .vimrc and .viminfo in a different directory

2011-05-12 Thread cyboman
i would like to move my .vimrc and .viminfo files in .vim directory. the reason for it is so that i could keep my .vim directory under svn. does anybody know how to tell vim to search for .viminfo and .vimrc in different directories? please click reply to author when replying this thread. any

error file for quick fix

2011-05-11 Thread cyboman
i have the following settings in my _vimrc for make set makeef=error.err the errorfile for :make and :grep set makeprg=gmake.exe\ --win32 set errorformat=%f\(%l\)\ :\ %m,%C\ \ %p^\,%C%p~,%A\%f\\\,%l%m\,%C%m \,%Z unfortunately i'm not able to find the error.err file after compilation. can

search lines without a pattern

2011-05-10 Thread cyboman
does anybody know how to do search of lines that don't contain a pattern: /pattern searches for a occurrence of a pattern, but i need a way to search for lines that don't have a pattern. please click reply to author when replying this thread. any help is appreciated. -- You received this

search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor

2011-05-05 Thread cyboman
i'm writing a script to modify the copyright notice. the problem is that are multiple notices in the file. i need to be able to find a line where the last notice occurs. vim search() function finds only the first pattern occurrence. does anybody know of a way to find the last pattern occurrence?

Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor

2011-05-05 Thread cyboman
the idea is not to move the cursor. :$ moves it to the end of file. does anybody have any other suggestions. also please click 'Reply to author' so i could get notified. thanks On May 5, 11:01 am, Christian Brabandt cbli...@256bit.org wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 4:55 pm, cyboman wrote: i'm

Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor

2011-05-05 Thread cyboman
thank you everyone. i ended up using winsaveview()/winrestview() On May 5, 12:47 pm, ZyX zyx@gmail.com wrote: Reply to message «Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor», sent 19:41:41 05 May 2011, Thursday by cyboman: the idea is not to move the cursor

Re: determine if a certain line occurs in a file

2011-05-02 Thread cyboman
thanks everyone. On Apr 30, 9:46 pm, John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: cyboman wrote: i'm trying to write a small vim function which will modify a copyrightyear each time i'm opening a file. You might want to look at the ideas here:http://vim.wikia.com/wiki

determine if a certain line occurs in a file

2011-04-30 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to write a small vim function which will modify a copyright year each time i'm opening a file. here is what i came up with function UpdateCopyrightYear() let l:cmd = 's/\(\d\+\)/\1-'.strftime(%Y).'/' g/Copyright 2010, Company E/exec l:cmd endfunction the problem that i'm facing

quick fix to jump between warnings and errors

2011-04-29 Thread cyboman
the compiler and lint tool my company is using generate 3 kinds of messages: errors, warnings and info. right now my keys are mapped in such a way that in quick fix window i jump between warnings, errors and info. is there a way to setup key mappings so that one key would only jump between errors,

capture result of a global search

2011-04-29 Thread cyboman
does anybody know if there is a way to capture the result of a global search in vim. for example in perl i can do the following string =~ /(pattern1)someword/i and $1 will contain patter1. is something like this possible in vim scripting? any help is appreciated -- You received this message

vim %character

2011-04-28 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to learn a bit of vim scripting, specifically i'm trying to understand how to do something similar to scanf(). say we have a command map ,cd :cd %:p:hCR what do those %:p:h mean? can anyone recommend a help file i need do read in order to understand the meanings of %:p:h? any help