Re: what does & mean in the vim command?

The f after and with no space between them means that the f is part of the {lhs} (q.v.): when you type F6 followed by f, Vim will execute the command :!firefox etc., starting Firefox and (as said above) not waiting for it to finish. Best regards, Tony. On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Sam IBM

Re: Vim 8 pre-announcement

Hello Bram, On 8/16/2016 6:43 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Hello Vim users, > > Work on Vim 8.0 is coming close to an end. I hope version 8.0 can be > released in about two weeks. > > This is a last chance to modify new features in a way that is not > backwards compatible. Once 8.0 is out we

Re: what does & mean in the vim command?

can someone please explain what does the f after the means ..cause its really confusing me ... -- -- 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 8 pre-announcement

2016-08-18 0:17 GMT+03:00 Bram Moolenaar : > > Skywind3000 wrote: > >> > Hello Vim users, >> > >> > Work on Vim 8.0 is coming close to an end. I hope version 8.0 can be >> > released in about two weeks. >> > >> > This is a last chance to modify new features in a way that is

Re: Vim 8 pre-announcement

Skywind3000 wrote: > > Hello Vim users, > > > > Work on Vim 8.0 is coming close to an end. I hope version 8.0 can be > > released in about two weeks. > > > > This is a last chance to modify new features in a way that is not > > backwards compatible. Once 8.0 is out we can't make changes that

Re: Vim 8 pre-announcement

On 17 August 2016, Bryan Richter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 02:11:03PM +0300, LCD 47 wrote: > > On 17 August 2016, Bryan Richter wrote: > > [...] > > > In summary, every plugin I use today is not compatible with > > > 'packages'. > > [...] > > > >

Re: Vim 8 pre-announcement

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Bryan Richter wrote: packages=( > a > b > ...) > for p in $packages; do > mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/$package/start > cd !$ > git clone $package > done > >From the description of the feature I

Re: use cases for ?

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov < zyx@gmail.com> wrote: 2016-08-17 11:10 GMT+03:00 Xavier Noria : > > I was reading :h key-notation and saw which is meant to be a > portable newline. > > > > When is helpful? Should portable map commands use

Re: Vim 8 pre-announcement

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 02:11:03PM +0300, LCD 47 wrote: > On 17 August 2016, Bryan Richter wrote: > [...] > > In summary, every plugin I use today is not compatible with > > 'packages'. > [...] > > All plugins are compatible with packages. You just need to move > them

Re: use cases for ?

2016-08-17 11:10 GMT+03:00 Xavier Noria : > I was reading :h key-notation and saw which is meant to be a portable > newline. > > When is helpful? Should portable map commands use instead of > for example? It is for help files only. `` in rhs of the mapping does exactly the

Selecting multiple tags

Is there a way (w/o plugins or VIMLing) to select two successive tags (no children => siblings) analogously - but not similar to - using e.g. v2at or d2at? I'm not asking for a macro but for a native vim command (haven't found one...). Sample ('*' denotes the cursor position; the area between

Re: Vim 8 pre-announcement

On 17 August 2016, Bryan Richter wrote: [...] > In summary, every plugin I use today is not compatible with > 'packages'. [...] All plugins are compatible with packages. You just need to move them from where you used to put them. /lcd -- -- You received this

use cases for ?

I was reading :h key-notation and saw which is meant to be a portable newline. When is helpful? Should portable map commands use instead of for example? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For