On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 04:23:12PM -0400, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > Are you saying, original Vi could be tricked to execute various commands
> > via modelines? That sounds pretty scary actually.
>
> Still can, if you have real vi somewhere. (You can also embed
Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Are you saying, original Vi could be tricked to execute various commands
> via modelines? That sounds pretty scary actually.
Still can, if you have real vi somewhere. (You can also embed arbitrary
ex commands in tag files for real vi.)
Elijah
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Hi Eli!
On Di, 25 Apr 2017, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> Everyone seems to be missing it. rot13 solution for those interested.
>
> This *hack* was designed to *not* work in vim.
>
> It works in vi. It makes vi reopen the file with vim.
>
> (And by-the-by, I have Vim 3.0 for Mac System 7. I found
Erik Falor wrote:
> I can report that this "hack" doesn't do anything interesting as of Vim 5.5.
> It doesn't complain about the pipe characters in the modelines, though.
Everyone seems to be missing it. rot13 solution for those interested.
Guvf *unpx* jnf qrfvtarq gb *abg* jbex va ivz.
Vg
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:16:54AM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> A while ago, I converted the old Vim CVS Repository to git and I made it
> available here:
> https://bitbucket.org/vim-mirror/vim-ancient
>
> #v+
> ~/vim-ancient$ git log --reverse |head -15
> commit
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi Jim!
>
> On Mo, 24 Apr 2017, Jim Wilmore wrote:
>
>>I recently got a new laptop, so I decided I would install gvim80 after
>> using gvim73 for many years.
>>As an old Unix user from the 70s onward, I
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 04:12:46 -0700 (PDT)
Patrik Iselind wrote:
> Even if they lack context you can still figure out things like "You
> use j and k to move around a lot. A faster and less error prone way
> would be using seaching for example.". This could be one example of
>
Den onsdag 19 april 2017 kl. 10:22:25 UTC+2 skrev ZyX:
>
> 1. Parsing , see :h 'verbose' and :h 'verbosefile'. Should
> only work for Ex commands, but not for normal-mode commands.
> 2. Recording your input in `-w {scriptout}` and parsing to guess where
> are commands there and where is regular
Den onsdag 19 april 2017 kl. 11:25:38 UTC+2 skrev MarcWeber:
> Brams advice was
> 1) watch yourself
> 2) look at what takes most of you time
> 3) use mailinglist or chat to ask how to do things faster.
>
> I've put some ideas here:
>
Hi Jim!
On Mo, 24 Apr 2017, Jim Wilmore wrote:
>I recently got a new laptop, so I decided I would install gvim80 after
> using gvim73 for many years.
>As an old Unix user from the 70s onward, I have quite a lot of
> customization, and when I discovered Gvim, my customization
On Mo, 24 Apr 2017, Erik Falor wrote:
> Eli did mention that he had been running Vim version 4.2. Perhaps
> modelines worked differently back then?
>
> The oldest Vim source code I could find in a brief search is version
> 6.4. Does anybody know of a way to find a version that's even older
>
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