Re: Vim as external editor for thunderbird

2017-02-05 Thread Cesar Romani
On 05/02/2017 06:36 a.m., Guido Milanese wrote: > Greetings from a rainy Northern Italy! > > After a new installation of my Linux box (xubuntu 16.10) I noticed > that in the current version of thunderbird I cannot use (g)vim as > external editor, nor was an appropriate plugin listed in the >

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Chase
On 2017-02-05 18:09, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 16:14:41 -0600 Tim Chase wrote: >> On 2017-02-05 16:30, Shawn H Corey wrote: >>> On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:41:34 +0100 >>> Christian Brabandt wrote: That is known to confuse the Vim parser. I would not

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Chase
On 2017-02-05 16:30, Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:41:34 +0100 > Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On So, 05 Feb 2017, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > > :nnoremap :nohlsearch > > > > > > In normal mode, Esc does nothing but ring the bell, so this > > > feels

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 21:41:34 +0100 Christian Brabandt wrote: > On So, 05 Feb 2017, Shawn H Corey wrote: > > > I remap the Esc. > > > > :nnoremap :nohlsearch > > > > In normal mode, Esc does nothing but ring the bell, so this feels > > intuitive to me. :) > > That is

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Tim, and all, On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:09:29 -0600 Tim Chase wrote: > On 2017-02-04 05:14, Marcus Martinez wrote: > > ...and modified the first ten lines using Sed substitution... > > :1,10 s/^/--/ > > > > After running this command the beginning of lines 1 through 10

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Christian Brabandt
On So, 05 Feb 2017, Shawn H Corey wrote: > I remap the Esc. > > :nnoremap :nohlsearch > > In normal mode, Esc does nothing but ring the bell, so this feels > intuitive to me. :) That is known to confuse the Vim parser. I would not recommend to map esc.

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Shawn H Corey
On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:09:29 -0600 Tim Chase wrote: > I generally fly with 'nohls' set and only turn it on when I actually > want that functionality. I also remap control+L (usually just a > simple :redraw of the screen) to also do a :noh in the process: > > :nnoremap

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Chase
On 2017-02-04 05:14, Marcus Martinez wrote: > ...and modified the first ten lines using Sed substitution... > :1,10 s/^/--/ > > After running this command the beginning of lines 1 through 10 do > have the "--" correctly placed. However, the first character of > each line in the file is now

Re: Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread David Fishburn
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Marcus Martinez < marcus.martinez@gmail.com> wrote: > ... > :1,10 s/^/--/ > > After running this command the beginning of lines 1 through 10 do have the > "--" correctly placed. However, the first character of each line in the > file is now highlighted (as

Sed substitution did not go as planned...

2017-02-05 Thread Marcus Martinez
Hello, I am using Vim version 7.4.160 on AIX. I opened my text file... vim foo.txt ...and modified the first ten lines using Sed substitution... :1,10 s/^/--/ After running this command the beginning of lines 1 through 10 do have the "--" correctly placed. However, the first character of each

Re: Vim as external editor for thunderbird

2017-02-05 Thread arocker
> the current version of thunderbird I cannot use (g)vim as external editor, > nor was an appropriate plugin listed in the thunderbird pages Wouldn't this be better addressed to the Thunderbird people? They seem to have been the ones who broke it. -- -- You received this message from the

Vim as external editor for thunderbird

2017-02-05 Thread Guido Milanese
Greetings from a rainy Northern Italy! After a new installation of my Linux box (xubuntu 16.10) I noticed that in the current version of thunderbird I cannot use (g)vim as external editor, nor was an appropriate plugin listed in the thunderbird pages ( _Muttator_ does not call vim, it should