Re: better browsing of IRC logs

2011-02-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Adam Monsen wrote: I use irssi for IRC. I like to quickly browse (local) logs (in vim) sometimes before sending a message. I've got a rather clunky way of browsing them, and I'm fishing for ideas on how to improve the process. Here's a log snippet: --- Day changed Fri

Re: Where g:, b:, t: and w: variables are described?

2011-02-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, ZyX wrote: I recently found that there exists `g:' (without any text after `:') variable which is a dictionary that holds all other global variables, same for `b:', `t:' and `w:' variables. Can anybody point me in which help topic they are described? By the way, the

Re: Single Instance in Console?

2011-02-24 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Marko Mahnič wrote: On Feb 23, 10:17 pm, howardb21 wrote: Is there some way one could use only one instance of vim, when editing files in a plain old unix shell? Only way I can think of, offhand, is to write a vim shell script that ran instead of vim.exe. Then, vim

Re: Remember marks but Not Jumps?

2011-02-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: I just know many will think Im wrong, but I never had much use of the jumplist. Any way to tell vim to remember marks between sessions but not jumps? Jumps occupy a lot of lines of info. I never use. Only way I can think of is to menually edit

Re: Help! how to check viminfo for errors?

2011-02-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: I know my pleas are getting old for you veterans. But I am trying to make .viminfo work for a blind friend, and he keeps getting more and more errors. I've scoured both the usual and unusual documentation, the scripts library, the web, and vim_use

Help debugging autocd-like behavior on startup

2011-02-28 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
I like the fact that the current directory can be local to a given directory. As such, I wanted to enable a behavior wherein opening a filename containing '/./' would automatically :lcd to the portion preceding the '/./'. Use case: $ vim -o /path/to/stuff/./app/models/blah.rb

Re: using the help system in split screen mode

2011-02-28 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Chris Jones wrote: Another quick question.. in Vimscript, what is the natural idiom to code: if count == 0; do proc_0; fi if count == 1; do proc_1; fi if count 1; do proc_n; fi In what language is that a natural idiom? Is it... ... a for loop? VimL has :for loops

Re: Edit same in two windows same Vim session

2011-03-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Colin Beighley wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to edit the same file in two windows in the same Vim session, where the file within the two windows stays in sync with eachother. If you really just want two windows (with no other windows), it's

Re: setting the name of the swap file?

2011-03-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Matt Martini wrote: Hi, Is it possible to change the name of the swap file that Vim uses? I have just started using a centralized location for swapfiles with the 'directory' option.  However, I am running into a problem of name space collision, or lack of same. Append

Re: Command to insert dated comment

2011-03-03 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Sapfeer wrote: Dear all, I want to create a command that will insert comment mark, for instance '#', space, date and time on the next line after current, but AFAICS there is no way to put insert commands like o in command. The most obvious way - use mapping, but it is

Re: Command to insert dated comment

2011-03-03 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Sapfeer wrote: Dear all, I want to create a command that will insert comment mark, for instance '#', space, date and time on the next line after current, but AFAICS there is no way to put insert commands like o in command

Re: To be strange or not to be strange...?

2011-03-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to rebuild vim patch by patch starting with the source of the vim version, which was that one which receives patch 7.3.001. I thought that version was 7.2.446. Hmm. Not entirely sure. The Mercurial repository seems not to have

Re: To be strange or not to be strange...?

2011-03-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Ivan Krasilnikov wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 22:41, meino.cramer wrote:  And at this point one will win 1000 points for free if knowing, how  to enter the version string...  I tried    7.3.001    r7.3.001 (like svn)    v7-3-001 (as used by .hg.tags)  but without luck

Re: To be strange or not to be strange...?

2011-03-04 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, meino.cramer wrote: Hi Benjamin, Benjamin R. Haskell [11-03-04 19:20]: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, meino.cramer wrote: Hi, I want to rebuild vim patch by patch starting with the source of the vim version, which was that one which receives patch 7.3.001. [...] But applying

Re: Toolbars in Gvim (Debian + KDE 4.4.5) won't switch off

2011-03-05 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, John Degen wrote: On Mar 5, 4:16 pm, John Degen wrote: I have the following .gvimrc: set vb t_vb= set showcmd set guioptions=aegiLt set tb= But after starting Gvim I still get a toolbar. :verbose set tb? says ~/.gvimrc and if I manually do :set tb= the toolbar disappears

Re: Toolbars in Gvim (Debian + KDE 4.4.5) won't switch off

2011-03-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Sergey Khorev wrote: Anyway, I just tested putting finish in the first line of /usr/share/vim/vim73/menu.vim, and that did the trick. There is a simpler way which won't be invalidated after Vim update. I have set guioptions-=m guioptions+=M guioptions-=T as one of the

Re: How to access to the string inside a string variable in a :e command

2011-03-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Tim Chase wrote: On 03/06/2011 01:29 PM, Jean Johner wrote: let foobar = test2.f Using echo foobar results in test2.f (OK) Now I want to open test2.f :e foobar opens a file foobar :e 'foobar' opens the file 'foobar' What is the syntax to open test2.f using the foobar

Re: using the help system in split screen mode

2011-03-06 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Chris Jones wrote: While I'm at it.. I had to run a guinea pig Vim session that I could easily bounce because I was unable to find a way to make Vim reload the script. If you just source xxx.vim.. it sees that the ‘load’ variable exists and exits immediately you're stuck

Re: re-enabling the disabled matchparen plugin

2011-03-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, John Magolske wrote: To disable the matchparen plugin, I have this in my vimrc: let loaded_matchparen = 1 Is there a way to load the matchparen plugin after vim has started up with it disabled in this manner? I know it can be switched off and on with these commands:

Re: re-enabling the disabled matchparen plugin

2011-03-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, John Magolske wrote: * Benjamin R. Haskell [110307 21:16]: On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, John Magolske wrote: let loaded_matchparen = 1 Is there a way to load the matchparen plugin after vim has started up with it disabled in this manner? pretend there never

Re: autocmd set filetype to call

2011-03-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, chris M. sprite wrote: i set two type autocmd: 1: autocmd BufEnter *.txt :call DoWordComplete() 2: autocmd FileType mail :call DoWordComplete() error: the second way can not work. how to set the second way ? Worksforme. What are you trying to do in DoWordComplete() that

Re: MozRepl + vim

2011-03-10 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Ben Schmidt wrote: On 10/03/11 9:50 PM, Fernando Basso wrote: I was doing fSpace and I noticed that vim did not jump to one specific 'space' (of course, that was not a space). 'ga' then showed160, Hex 00a0, Octal 240 between 'gtpl' and ':call' in the first line of

Re: Normal mode commands when Caps Lock is on

2011-03-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, H Xu wrote: Hello, Is it possible to reverse uppercase letter and lowercase letter when Caps Lock is on? Sometimes normal mode commands are uncomfortable to use when Caps Lock is on. When Caps Lock is on, For example, Shift + I would lead to the effect of 'i', which

[PATCH] First pass at Freedesktop directories

2011-03-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
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 # HG changeset patch # User Benjamin R. Haskell v...@benizi.com # Date 1300125629 14400 # Node ID 5bf53e47cbfff8136d0b6c2ff7c8ad45e645fbf6

Re: [PATCH] First pass at Freedesktop directories

2011-03-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
(Sorry, this was intended for vim-dev. Reposted there.) On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Freedesktop defines some commonly, but certainly-not-universally used directories for configuration (rather than using $HOME/.file, it's generally, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/appname/file

Re: Load files which contain a given string?

2011-03-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a directory with over 400 files, some of which contain a particular string I want to modify manually. Is there any way to tell vim to edit just the files which contain the specified string? Within Vim, you can use the :vim[grep] command to

Re: Vim build error no terminal library found [Was: Reformatting numbered lists]

2011-03-17 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote: [...] OK, a quick check to see that I have the build-essential and linux-headers-$(uname -r) packages on this box, fetch the 7.3 source, and sudo make: You shouldn't need `sudo` for the `make` portion. Just if you then `make install` to

Re: Perl indent in vim 7.3

2011-03-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, S Krishnakumar wrote: Hello, I recently moved to Vim 7.3 from Vim 7.2. I use Vim primarily for coding Perl. The first thing I noticed today was that the indenting is not what I would expect-- Code Snippet - Line 1: if( $hello ){ Line 2:       @add =

Re: Extracting part of previous line in substitute command

2011-03-22 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Dennis Benzinger wrote: Hi! I have a log file with timestamps and messages: 01:00 x 02:00 y 03:00 z To compare the time elapsed between two events I want to prefix each line with the timestamp of the previous time. I tried to use %s/^/\=matchstr(getline(line(.)-1),

Re: Odd configure problems on Cygwin

2011-03-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Gary Johnson wrote: I built Vim 7.3.0 on my Cygwin system last August and thought it could use an update, so I pulled and updated the latest changes from the Mercurial repository, ran make distclean and ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-features=huge --without-x

Re: Fold by timestamp?

2011-03-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Tim Chase wrote: On 03/21/2011 11:58 PM, c b wrote: Hi Tom, s/Tom/Tim/ :) On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Tim Chasev...@tim.thechases.com wrote: On 03/21/2011 01:43 PM, sanjay ravat wrote: [2011-03-21T18:45:46.004-07:00] [Other info]... log message

Re: Odd configure problems on Cygwin

2011-03-23 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2011-03-23, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Gary Johnson wrote: I built Vim 7.3.0 on my Cygwin system last August and thought it could use an update, so I pulled and updated the latest changes from the Mercurial repository, ran

Re: back references in syntax region skip/end patterns

2011-03-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Roald wrote: Hi all, I'm trying write a syntax file for (a subset of) YAML, mainly to provide nice folding. It would not be so hard (I think) if I could use back references in the skip and end patterns (referring back to the start pattern), but that appears not to be

Re: Why Ruby is not supported on Vim7.3 (needed for commandT)

2011-03-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, wei gao wrote: Hi,   I want to use the commandT plugin http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025. However it needs ruby support which is not on Vim7.3. Anyone knows how to work around this? I'm typing this email in Vim 7.3 with Ruby support enabled. If

Re: Why Ruby is not supported on Vim7.3 (needed for commandT)

2011-03-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, wei gao wrote: I download vim7.3 from www.vim.org and here is my version info: PS C:\Windows\system32 vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Oct 27 2010 17:51:38) MS-Windows 32-bit console version The version available from vim.org is pretty minimal,

Re: Why Ruby is not supported on Vim7.3 (needed for commandT)

2011-03-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, wei gao wrote: I'm using GVim from vim.org which doesn't support ruby. BTW, is this Cream version the official one? Is it stable? No, it's not the official one. Yes, it's stable. From the downloads page on vim.org: For the latest version with all patches included

Re: Why Ruby is not supported on Vim7.3 (needed for commandT)

2011-03-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 28/03/11 04:13, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: [...] with GUI doesn't imply that you have to use it. Under Windows it does: a Windows executable is either a GUI or a console program but never both, unlike on Linux. Woops, yes, of course. I

Re: Way to clear line without removing the line?

2011-03-28 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, David Kahn wrote: I am guessing this should be a real simple question but cant find an answer readily: If I want to remove all contents of a line, I press 'd' twice. But in most cases I want the line to still be there (meaning the space, so after deleting I would have a

Re: Function to write correctly French quotation marks

2011-03-29 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Steve wrote: Hi Christian, Thank you for your answer. Le 23-03-2011, à 17:57:53 +0100, Christian Brabandt a écrit : On Wed, March 23, 2011 3:20 pm, Steve wrote: In French, we do not write word or 'word', we write « word », with a non-breakable space after « and

Re: Function to write correctly French quotation marks

2011-03-29 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Steve wrote: Le 29-03-2011, à 02:50:47 -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell a écrit : Does those two mappings help you? :imap expr getline('.')[col('.')-2]=~'\S' ? ' »' : '« ' :imap expr ' getline('.')[col('.')-2]=~'\S' ? ' »' : '« ' [...] [...] I gave it a try

Re: Hyperlinks with dashes not working

2011-03-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Marco wrote: I have some troubles creating help files with dashes in the hyperlinks. When a dash appears in a hyperlink, vim consideres the parts to be independent words. Dashes in the help files shipped with vim are no problem, this happens just to my own ones.

Ctrl-W f when file doesn't exist?

2011-03-30 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
Is there a setting that controls whether Ctrl-W f opens a file that doesn't exist? I frequently find myself wanting to open a new file that way. It wasn't too hard to come up with a mapping: :nmap C-wf :exe :e .fnameescape(expand(cfile))CR But I was just wondering whether that was

Re: VIM + Web + Wysiwyg

2011-04-05 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, henry wrote: Hi folks, I'm working on a writing website. I am making an attempt to transplant the commands of the vim's Normal mode to an online editor. The h and l moving comands have been implemented. And I have added two commands H and L: when you move the cursor,

Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

2011-04-08 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Tim Gray wrote: On Apr 08, 2011 at 11:25 AM -0400, Eric Weir wrote: A question regarding a concern raised by another respondent: How do you deal with the absence of word wrap. [Or is that even an issue with latex?] Vim does soft wrap, but it only wraps at the edge of the

Re: why not remove www? Currently http://vim.org/ doesn't work

2011-04-09 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 02:24:23PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Fr, 08 Apr 2011, donothing successfully wrote: A user may well assume the site is down if the url doesn't resolve. Seconded. This had bugged me many many times with various

Re: Pattern matching problem

2011-04-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: Hi, A quick puzzle: when I have words separated by 2 spaces like this: firstword secondword vim does not seem to match the double spages with a pattern like these: / /or/\s\s/ Yet when there are 3 spaces between words, patterns like

Re: why the Up key doesn't work to go through the searching history

2011-04-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, wxuyec wrote: it is strange. I have checked what tony suggested and posted the results. but I don't know why the post doesn't appear in this thread. Here I will repost the results again. 1) I am running konsole. 2) the term is set to be xterm. 3) In Insert mode, when you

Re: why the Up key doesn't work to go through the searching history

2011-04-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, wxuyec wrote: sorry, don't understand. do you want me to run the command of echo $terminfo[smkx] ; cat ; echo $terminfo[rmkx] ? I wasn't really suggesting anything to do. I was just explaining why just running `cat` wasn't enough to show you the keys Vim would see.

Re: catch ?

2011-04-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: Just for reference, in case this is in any way system dependant! I'm on a Win 7 x 64bit ultimate OS. My vim is a straight download and unmodified install from vim.org. Below are included a sample file xxx, and a sample script zzz. [Aside] Please

Re: why the Up key doesn't work to go through the searching history

2011-04-13 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, wxuyec wrote: I see. thank you. do you have any advice to the problem? If you try the revised version: echo -e '\033[?1h\033=' ; cat ; echo -e '\033[?1l\033' (then press Up, Down, Right, Left, then press Enter, then Ctrl+d), Do you get: ^[[A^[[B^[[C^[[D Or:

Re: why the Up key doesn't work to go through the searching history

2011-04-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, wxuyec wrote: thank you very much. I tried in vim command-line to run what you suggested. It still doesn't work. I think I have to give up. I came into this conversation late. Did anyone ask these standard questions: What OS are you using? If you're using Linux,

Re: How to match A but not B

2011-04-25 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: I want to match lines that contain the word, DEBIT but do not contain the word PPD. How to I construct a pattern that will do this? For example the pattern should exclude a line like, DEBIT, this is a line with PPD in it But the pattern

Re: How to match A but not B

2011-04-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
[Off-topic: What are you using to respond to the mailing list? It's really annoying that your replies are never threaded with the thing to which you're replying.] On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, howard Schwartz wrote: Benjamen suggested: :s/\%(jam\)\@=en/in/ /^\%(.*PPD\)\@!.*DEBIT I was aware of

Re: Where is localleader defined?

2011-04-27 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 27 April 2011 21:04:34 Ben Schmidt wrote: localleader to voleader before executing it. My main question though, is, why do you want to do this? Maybe [...] there is a more standard 'Vim way' [...] [...] Some time around VO 0.2.4, VO

Way to skip systemwide vimrc?

2011-05-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
A filetype detection plugin I'm using failed to work reliably across systems. It's one of the things I use only on a couple of systems at work, so I've put it in ~/.vim.local/ftdetect/filetype.vim. ~/.vim.local is something I add to my runtimepath (along with my ~/.vim directory that's the

Re: Way to skip systemwide vimrc?

2011-05-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Ben Schmidt wrote: On 13/05/11 5:02 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Since that gets run before my ~/.vimrc, my runtimepath hasn't yet been setup. As far as I can tell, there's no way to disable /etc/vimrc (SYS_VIMRC_FILE) from within .vimrc, because of the order in which

Re: substitute Unicode characters

2011-05-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 16 May 2011, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: The Unicode font I am using for Vim works great. Except... I would like to use a private use area (PUA) alternative glyph for zero, which has a slash through it. I would like to use a private use area (PUA, non-BMP) alternative glyph for

Re: Simple mapping accepted, but incorrectly displayed.

2011-06-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 14.06.11 07:47, Ben Fritz wrote: On Jun 14, 3:59 am, Erik Christiansen wrote: In Vim 7.3, I added the following mappings: map A-a map A-e map A-o map A- map A- I see only incomplete mappings here. Yes, the problem may lie in your MUA's

Re: Simple mapping accepted, but incorrectly displayed.

2011-06-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Wed, June 15, 2011 3:38 pm, Erik Christiansen wrote: So the post should be leaving Vim as utf-8. OK, is mutt changing that to ISO-8859-1 behind the scenes?: Yes. Alpine also does this by default. :r !grep char ~/.muttrc # shows

Re: reverse join on lines

2011-06-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, David Ohlemacher wrote: Hello All, Is there a way to do a reverse join? Example: // Foo comment int foo; Reverse Join would result in: int foo; // Foo comment I don't think there's a built-in. I like this version I just came up with: :nnoremap J

Re: Extending syntax files / overriding keyword with match

2011-06-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, bendavis78 wrote: Hi, I'm extending the css.vim syntax file for use with a CSS framework using runtime! syntax/css.vim. You probably don't want the '!' there. That will run all syntax/css.vim files found in 'runtimepath'. The only reason another syntax/css.vim should

Re: Extending syntax files / overriding keyword with match

2011-06-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Ben Schmidt wrote: On 27/06/11 6:56 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Sat, 25 Jun 2011, bendavis78 wrote: Hi, I'm extending the css.vim syntax file for use with a CSS framework using runtime! syntax/css.vim. You probably don't want the '!' there. That will run all

Re: completion and caching

2011-06-29 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Edward Peschko wrote: All, I'm attempting to use vim's omni-complete feature (ctrl-N, ctrl-P), and am finding - oddly enough - that it keeps on re-scanning the files in order to get the correct symbols, rather than doing what I would think would be the intelligent

Re: Using 'O' to open a new line and insert is slow

2011-06-29 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, seed wrote: Sometime when I use 'O' to open a new line above the current line, the letter 'O' is displayed on the screen for a few seconds before I can insert. Does anybody have this problem? However, it's ok when I use gVim or use Vim with X off. Sounds like something

Re: php.net function list documentation inside vim?

2011-07-05 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, nikhil jain wrote: This is my second time usign mailing lists , so apologies if I am doing something silly. I am not sure if this is a good idea, but is there a way to have the php.net documentation about functions 'inside' vim. That way instead of having to switch to

Re: colorscheme for vimdiff

2011-07-05 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Anonymous bin Ich wrote: Hi! Is there a way to load different colorscheme when using vimdiff (and different when using vim)? In .vimrc, condition it on the value of 'diff', which will be set to a value that evaluates to true in whatever buffer vimdiff starts in: if

Re: Changing elements of a color scheme

2011-07-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Charles Campbell wrote: May I suggest a few plugins: * to identify the name of the syntax item that you want to change colors for: hilinks.vim: http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#HILINKS Charles, I don't

Re: Changing elements of a color scheme

2011-07-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Eric Weir wrote: On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Charles Campbell wrote: hilinks.vim: http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#HILINKS Thanks, Ben. I'm confused. I

Re: Is there any __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__ equivalent for vim script?

2011-07-07 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, ZyX wrote: Reply to message «Re: Is there any __FILE__, __FUNCTION__, __LINE__ equivalent for vim script?», sent 07:17:03 08 July 2011, Friday by Ben Fritz: sfile and slnum will give you __FILE__ and __LINE__. I don't think there's a __FUNCTION__ but I could be wrong.

Re: Fugitive

2011-07-08 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On 08/07/11 16:10, eleanor wrote: Hi, I'm testing the fugitive plugin for the time being and I've come accross the following problems: 1) - If I add and commit a file called a.txt with the text aaa - and then change the text to bbb and save it and commit it - and then change the text to ccc and

Re: Changing elements of a color scheme

2011-07-10 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Dr. Chip, if you have access to put an .htaccess file in that directory, you can correct the first problem with this line: AddType text/x-vimball .vba I've loaded that a file with that line onto http

Re: arrow keys don't move cursor but output ABCD in INSERT mode

2011-07-10 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011, Kent wrote:  hi guys, last weekend I finally did the switch from .vim to vim-addon-manager. after the change, I made some small tests, almost everything looks fine. but the arrow key don't move cursor in INsert mode any longer, just ouput A, B, C, and D. I remembered

Re: Problem calling python script from BufWritePost

2011-07-10 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011, AK wrote: Hi, I have a ftdetect script defined like this: au BufNewFile,BufRead *.vtobu setf vimtobu augroup VimTobu au! au BufWritePost vimtobu call VimTobu(save) au BufWritePost vimtobu echo 'SAVED!' augroup END :au BufWritePost vimtobu {etc...}

Re: Abbreviations using special chars

2011-07-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Nathan Neff wrote: I've tried this: iabbrev s #+begin_src groovy in my .vimrc, but it doesn't work, it gives Invalid argument when I start vim. But, when I enter :iabbrev s #+begin_src groovy on the command line, the abbreviation works. What am I doing wrong?

Re: Virtual edit: Insert text at specific column, even on empty rows

2011-07-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ben Fritz wrote: On Jul 12, 2:46 pm, Paul wrote: I'm using Vim 7.1 for Windows.  For some reason, I have been conditioned to expect the following behaviour, which I no longer get. when I press Ctrl-V at (say) text column 5 and cursor down, a 1-character wide column is

Re: add a color line behind line number

2011-07-12 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ben Fritz wrote: On Jul 12, 8:38 am, stardiviner wrote: how to add a colored line behind line number. here is the example:http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2011/06/29/some-custom-emacs-keybindings-for... Are you asking for every other line to be highlighted in a different

Re: Abbreviations using special chars

2011-07-14 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Tue, July 12, 2011 5:38 pm, Nathan Neff wrote: Interestingly, if I use: iabbrev lts whatever it works. This means, when vim parses this iabbrev, it will replace the lt by '', so you trigger your abbreviation by typing s (as you probably

Re: gVIM crash condition and workaround

2011-07-18 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011, Sean wrote: It happened when Python Interface to Vim is used. [...] -- Crash Information: -- Application Name: gvim.exe Application Version: 7.3.277.0 [...] -- gVIM :version -- VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010

Re: How to get the directory name of the current file

2011-07-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, 何聪辉 wrote: Hi, I am using vim as the simple IDE, and use qmake and make tool to configure my project. If a directory named Foo, and inside the directory, there exists some headers and source files, I use the command qmake -project, and it will generate a file called

Re: How to get the directory name of the current file

2011-07-20 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Bee wrote: On Jul 20, 6:52 am, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, 何聪辉 wrote: Hi, I am using vim as the simple IDE, and use qmake and make tool to configure my project. If a directory named Foo, and inside the directory, there exists some headers and source

Re: supertab with omnicompletion

2011-07-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Carlo Trimarchi wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the SuperTab plugin to autocomplete with omnicompletion. in my .vimrc I have this: SuperTab settings let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = c-xc-o Gleaned from the way supertab.vim was using the setting, I think you want:

Re: supertab with omnicompletion

2011-07-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Carlo Trimarchi wrote: On 21 July 2011 17:33, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType = \c-x\c-o no, this didn't work either. If the key notation isn't working, you might have the 'k' or '' option(s) set in 'cpo'. Or you might be in 'compatible

Re: supertab with omnicompletion

2011-07-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Carlo Trimarchi wrote: On 21 July 2011 17:51, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: If the key notation isn't working, you might have the 'k' or '' option(s) set in 'cpo'.  Or you might be in 'compatible' mode.  (Just FYI, since that can cause hard-to-diagnose problems later.) I

Re: supertab with omnicompletion

2011-07-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Carlo Trimarchi wrote: On 21 July 2011 18:27, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: Try only enabling filetype detection and SuperTab (all on one line): vim -u NONE -i NONE -N --noplugin  -c 'let g:SuperTabDefaultCompletionType=c-xc-o'  -c 'filetype plugin on'  -c 'runtime plugin

Re: How to automate pasting an increasing list of integers?

2011-07-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Mark Larwill wrote: I often need to make a large list of XML quickly and was wondering if there is a fast way to do this with VIM. For example suppose I have the XML: useruser1/user useruser2/user useruser3/user But I want to quickly make 100 users. I know I can quickly

Re: why is call needed in vimscript?

2011-07-24 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Tim Chase wrote: On 07/24/2011 09:34 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 25/07/11 03:41, Jose Caballero wrote: I don't know what you get for :help call Hm, strange. Is this hitting the difference between these two? :help call :help :call It sounds like it. But,

Re: disable window close button (X)

2011-07-25 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, warem wrote: hi, i am using gvim in M$. i would like to know if it is possible to disable window close button (X) on the top right corner in gvim. my purpose is to prevent closing vim accidentally by pressing button X. Have you tried pressing the button? In Win7 (only

Re: Problem when saving my vimfile

2011-07-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, niva wrote: Hi, Each time that I open a new vimfile of my own or another existing one, the saving action (:w!) takes more and more time after each new saving command. I suppose it comes from autocommand written in my _vimrc. Thank you for helping, Let see: Only do

Re: unexpected behavior of :let-@

2011-07-26 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, ZyX wrote: Reply to message «unexpected behavior of :let-@», sent 20:36:08 26 July 2011, Tuesday by Ben Fritz: By the way, while let @/= clears the last search pattern, using `n' for some reason results in E486: Pattern not found: ^M Interesting. I get that under

Re: A modern look for gvim (win32)

2011-07-28 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 27/07/11 09:53, Tobbe Lundberg wrote: On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:44:56 AM UTC+2, Tony Mechelynck wrote: The problem with GUI window splitters is that they would still have to be exactly the width of one character cell in the current

Re: A mile of dashes added to foldtext

2011-08-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Erik Christiansen wrote: set foldtext=substitute(getline(v:foldstart),'/\\*\\\|\\*/\\\|{{{\\d\\=','','g') [}}}] [...] let sub = substitute(line, '/\*\|\*/\|{{{\d\=', '', 'g') [}}}] [...] It has also become clear that I'll have to constrain the folding with some au

Re: sh vs bash syntax coloring

2011-08-01 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Thilo Six wrote: ranou...@gmx.com wrote the following on 31.07.2011 12:42 Hello I'm not very happy with syntax coloring of sh scripts (starting with #!/bin/sh). For example, things like $(command), $((n+1)) or ${var%.txt} are very badly displayed. However they are part

Re: Warning (HTML included to show prog shipped w/syntax highlighting).

2011-08-11 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Ben Fritz wrote: On Aug 11, 10:46 am, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2011-08-11, Ben Fritz wrote: On Aug 10, 5:23 pm, Linda W wrote: If I put a space after $( and before th final ), then...it changes the semantics of the statment I think you just guaranteed I won't learn

Re: findfile() does not work with sshfs?

2011-08-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, zergu wrote: Hello. Recently I've written my first Vim plugin which allows me to jump to most used files/directories in Symfony (PHP) projects. It works as expected in all of them but one. I have a project which is mounted to my local directory via sshfs (don't ask why

Re: install error

2011-08-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, dundaryilmaz wrote: Hi, I am trying to install VIM to my HOME directory. I dont have root user privileges. When I try ./configure --prefix=$HOME I get this error: termcap library is not usable checking for tgetent in -lcurses... yes curses library is not usable no

Re: findfile() does not work with sshfs?

2011-08-15 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, zergu wrote: Thanks for you answer! It appears that I've made some kind of mistake with this simplified example, cause findfile('symfony','.') actually finds this file in main sshfs-project directory. Upward searching still doesn't work though. Let me illustrate this with

Re: Vim, Win7, /etc/drivers/hosts

2011-08-16 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Daryl Lee wrote: This is probably more a Win7 issue than a Vim issue, but I know that if I took it to a Win7 forum they'd just tell me to use Notepad, and I'm not in the mood for that. I try to use gvim to edit my hosts file, but the .../drivers/etc folder is invisible

Re: Vim writing to disk with every single keypress...why?

2011-08-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, John Magolske wrote: When using Vim, I observe a write to disk upon every single keypress. Every single time I press a key the HD light blinks. When I start Vim like so: vim --noplugin ...I notice this is not the case. I'm guessing a particular plugin may causing

Re: about Vim's builtin color names -- seeing a dff on X11 ver, vs. Win ver in 1 color

2011-08-21 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Linda W wrote: I was noticing the difference in colors when I edited on Windows vs. Editing over X. [...] One color stands out as different -- [...] The color is Light Blue. [...] under X11 a color value of 0xADD8E6 - which is also the value on the wikipedia page

Re: path completion after 'export PATH=/tmp' (C-X C-F)

2011-08-24 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, Path completion (C-X C-F) does not recognize /tmp as a path, rather it recognize PATH=/tmp as a path. I'm wondering if there is a way to change this feature of vim? Thanks! Not sure why feature is in quotes. It is a feature. It's controlled by

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