Re: h j k l -- keys

2011-12-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 16/12/11 13:42, Sven Guckes guc...@guckes.net wrote: you will be assimilated. resistance is futile. hehe I just commit the ultimate heresy use the arrow keys. Lead him away ;-) Cheers, Phil... -- Nothing to see here... move along, move along -- You received this message from the

Odd problem...

2012-01-06 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi. This is a real shot in the dark but here goes... I had a build fail on me. This is the relevant part of the log: `# Failed test 'right path detected' 350 # at t/mojo/home.t line 17. 351 # Structures begin differing at: 352 # $got-[1] = 'users' 353 # $expected-[1] =

Re: Odd problem...

2012-01-07 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 7/1/12 05:18, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com wrote: This is a real shot in the dark but here goes... [...] FWIW, the answer was that the box I encountered the error on was formatted HFS+ therefore case-insentitive that's the reason it failed. It built OK on Linux. Sorry for the noise

Re: Hel with vim-addon-manager -a

2012-01-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 8/1/12 18:10, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: [...] I believe I have git in PATH, but I'm not certain. How do I check? `$ which git` If you don't get an answer, it's not in your $PATH Cheers, Phil... -- Nothing to see here... move along, move along -- You received this

Re: What's your favorite color scheme?

2012-01-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 10/1/12 09:01, ConcreteVitamin concretevita...@gmail.com wrote: Please share your the name of your favorite color scheme, your working environment (gvim under windows 7/ubuntu terminal... etc), and any other specific settings! It would be best if you share a link to snapshots. solarized. I

Re: What's your favorite color scheme?

2012-01-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/1/12 11:04, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On 01/10/2012 11:02 AM, Boyko Bantchev wrote: 1. I strongly believe that, in general, a dark background reduces the eye strain. When they get older, many people (myself included) find it more difficult to read light text

Re: What did I do?

2012-01-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 16/1/12 18:04, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: [...] Again, thanks to all. Perhaps the beginning of another stage in my vim education. Be warned. I've lost days of life reading vim's documentation. Habit forming... ;-) Cheers, Phil. -- Some [people] feel that the best way to

Re: What did I do?

2012-01-16 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 16/1/12 23:28, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: Be warned. I've lost days of life reading vim's documentation. Habit forming... ;-) As a novice, and nonprogrammer, I find it hard to get help from the help. I try. The elementary

Re: What did I do?

2012-01-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 17/1/12 03:04, Vlad Irnov vlad.ir...@gmail.com wrote: It's easy to make such mistake if selected text in Visual mode does not stand out and looks similar to Folded lines. Then you may not notice that you are in Visual mode. This is unfortunately a problem with many Vim color schemes,

Re: What did I do?

2012-01-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 18/1/12 16:52, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jan 17, 2012, at 4:19 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: The plugin Powerline https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline is invaluable for identifying which mode you're in along with being able to tell easily if a file's been modified plenty

Caught deadly signal

2012-01-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. For the first time since I seriously started using Vim about six months ago I got this message on startup: `Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT Vim: Finished. Abort trap` I'd been using it all day had just come back to it. This version of Vim (7.3 Included patches: 1-244, 246-353) is on OS

Re: Caught deadly signal

2012-01-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 19/1/12 15:59, Charles Campbell charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. For the first time since I seriously started using Vim about six months ago I got this message on startup: `Vim: Caught deadly signal ABRT Vim: Finished. Abort trap` I'd been using it all

Re: save as from toolbar with MacVim

2012-01-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/01/2012 10:04, eNG1Ne wrote: OK, normally I'd use :sav – but when I want to save from hard drive to USB stick, and as an occasional Mac user, I'm a long way from sure about how to navigate. So, I go to the cuddly, friendly toolbar and

Strange highlighting

2012-01-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I'm seeing a very odd annoying highlighting anomaly. In certain files ( on occasion all files) certain words will be highlighted in only orange grey. These words seem to be totally arbitrary. For example, in, say, my .bashrc the words

Re: Strange highlighting

2012-01-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/01/2012 19:13, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm seeing a very odd annoying highlighting anomaly. In certain files ( on occasion all files) certain words will be highlighted in only orange grey. These words seem to be totally arbitrary

Re: Strange highlighting

2012-01-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/01/2012 21:41, Charles Campbell wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: [...] As a follow up to this I've discovered the odd highlighting only occurs when passing an argument to Vim i.e `vim .bashrc` If I start Vim then edit the same file all is OK

Re: Strange highlighting

2012-01-26 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/01/2012 01:44, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/01/2012 21:41, Charles Campbell wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: [...] As a follow up to this I've discovered

Re: new version of Vim?

2012-01-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/2012 23:39, Ben Fritz wrote: On Jan 27, 4:27 pm, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. On my OS X box I use a MacPort's version of console Vim after running a selfupdate on MacPorts I noticed there's a new version of Vim

Re: compiling 7.3+ with the conceal option

2012-02-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/2012 20:03, Dominique Pellé wrote: [...] I don't think that works. I build Vim (huge) as follows: $ cd vim $ hg pull $ hg up $ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 $ make According to :help +feature-list, the

Vim from Mercurial

2012-02-07 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. This isn't strictly a Vim question so I hope you'll forgive indulge me. I pull the code for Vim from the Mercurial/Googlecode repos it works great on OS X on which I've got installed hg 2.0.1 but trying to pull to my Debian boxes running

Re: Vim from Mercurial

2012-02-07 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/02/2012 20:13, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. This isn't strictly a Vim question so I hope you'll forgive indulge me. It was just a case of removing hg 1.6 fetching 2.0.1 from Squeeze back-ports now all is well. Sorry for the noise

Re: Vim from Mercurial

2012-02-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/2012 01:49, Rich Healey wrote: http://xkcd.com/979/ Glad you got it sorted :) lmao ;-) - -- But masters, remember that I am an ass. Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado

E365 again

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I'm setting up a Fedora 12 box Vim's going well apart from the error message I'm getting when trying to print - :hardcopy I've had this before on OS X Debian solved it by adding this to my vimrc: `set

Re: E365 again

2012-02-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/2012 19:31, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm setting up a Fedora 12 box Vim's going well apart from the error message I'm getting when trying to print - :hardcopy [snip] Apologies for replying to own post but the problem was that in the OS GUI

Re: Vim Script Spam

2012-02-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/2012 07:14, John Beckett wrote: Marc Weber wrote: At any rate, I have deleted the following scripts and their download packages: 1301, 1476, 1670, 1789, 2664. Those other packages - did they contain some strange downloadable content as

Re: www.vim.org contents - what about adding a git based wiki everybody can edit?

2012-02-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/02/2012 16:27, Marc Weber wrote: Excerpts from Ben Fritz's message of Tue Feb 21 16:48:36 +0100 2012: Why not a real wiki with real wiki syntax? Or why not just create pages on the existing wikia.com wiki with prominent links from vim.org?

Re: Strange highlighting [SOLVED]

2012-02-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/01/2012 19:13, Phil Dobbin wrote: I'm seeing a very odd annoying highlighting anomaly. In certain files ( on occasion all files) certain words will be highlighted in only orange grey. These words seem to be totally arbitrary

installing/upgrading Vim

2012-03-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I've got a version of Vim (see below) which was the first Vim I used. I compiled it myself from source into /usr/local/ nowadays the Vim I use is in /opt/local/ has very many more features. Question is I've pulled the latest source code

Re: installing/upgrading Vim

2012-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 09:15, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 03/03/12 05:48, Phil Dobbin wrote: I've got a version of Vim (see below) which was the first Vim I used. I compiled it myself from source into /usr/local/ nowadays the Vim I use is in /opt/local

Re: Dr Chip

2012-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/03/2012 20:52, sc wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:27:10PM -0500, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2012, Kartik Agaram wrote: Holy crap, I just realized that Dr Chip's vim page is gone.

Re: OT: hosting (was Re: Dr Chip)

2012-03-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/03/2012 01:04, Tim Chase wrote: On 03/03/12 18:39, Phil Dobbin wrote: Or alternatively there are good deals to be had with a VPS nowadays if you want complete root access to a box (configure your own mail server so forth) at realistically

Re: Textpad to GVIM

2012-03-05 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2012 00:39, Michael Ludwig wrote: Dotan Cohen schrieb am 06.03.2012 um 00:10 (+0200): You will find GVIM frustrating at first, and you will hate it. Once you get over that step, you will fall in love with it. Just stick out those first

Control characters

2012-03-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I quite often send various man pages the like to Vim like so: `$ man foo | ul -i | vim -` which works great but it tends to bring with it some non-ASCII, control null (ASCII0) characters with it. When doing this on OS X I've been sending

Re: Control characters

2012-03-09 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/2012 19:33, sc wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I quite often send various man pages the like to Vim like so: `$ man foo | ul -i | vim

Re: Control characters

2012-03-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2012 07:05, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 09/03/12 21:41, Phil Dobbin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/2012 19:33, sc wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Control characters

2012-03-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2012 10:52, Thor Andreassen wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: Hi, all. I quite often send various man pages the like to Vim like so: `$ man foo | ul -i | vim -` Not exactly what you asked

Re: Control characters

2012-03-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2012 13:28, Thor Andreassen wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:51:13AM +, Phil Dobbin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/03/2012 10:52, Thor Andreassen wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 07:05:58PM +, Phil

Re: find a script to capitalize SQL keyword automatically

2012-03-17 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/03/2012 15:33, stardiviner wrote: I want a vim script to convert SQL keyword(statement, clause, those highlig= ht group in file) to be converted to *uppercase* when I type command `:w` to save file. And another way is when I am typing:

Re: Compiling Vim and gVim on Debian

2012-03-20 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/03/2012 20:52, John Degen wrote: I'm trying to compile a huge version of Vim, including gVim, using Mercurial. I've only managed to install console Vim, and that's a normal version, without Python and Perl interface. I followed the

Re: Compiling Vim and gVim on Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/03/2012 02:11, pansz wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:52 AM, John Degen johnde...@gmail.com wrote: Am I still missing packages? The Debian package (Vim 7.2.445) installs without problems and offers a huge version. sudo apt-get build-dep

Re: Compiling Vim and gVim on Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/03/2012 07:37, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi John! On Di, 20 Mär 2012, John Degen wrote: I'm trying to compile a huge version of Vim, including gVim, using Mercurial. I've only managed to install console Vim, and that's a normal

Re: Compiling Vim and gVim on Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/03/2012 08:11, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Phil! On Mi, 21 Mär 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 21/03/2012 07:37, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi John! On Di, 20 Mär 2012, John Degen wrote: I'm trying to compile a huge version of Vim

Re: Compiling Vim and gVim on Debian

2012-03-21 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/03/2012 08:23, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 21/03/2012 08:11, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Phil! On Mi, 21 Mär 2012, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 21/03/2012 07:37, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi John! On Di, 20 Mär 2012, John Degen wrote: I'm

Re: Present output of external script in dropdown

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/03/2012 06:17, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Thu, March 22, 2012 10:42, Jostein Gogstad wrote: I'm using Vim as my default text editor for writing e-mail. I have an external perl script that does LDAP-lookup and outputs a list of names

Re: Present output of external script in dropdown

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/03/2012 08:41, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Fri, March 23, 2012 09:33, Phil Dobbin wrote: There is also a link I found which is primarily for mutt Vim made by its author for OS X but can be adjusted that as well as incorporating lbdb, uses

Re: vims source repository gone?

2012-03-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2012 00:25, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, when pulling the newest vim source from the repository I get this: hg pull pulling from https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ abort: HTTP Error 404: Not Found 0 files updated, 0

Re: googlegroups strips recipient delimiter

2012-03-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/03/2012 22:49, Jorge Luis wrote: Friends, Unless I have procmail and/or mutt misconfigured, I've run across a problem with the vim mailing lists in particular and possibly googlegroups in general. It seems that googlegroups strips any

Cool error message

2012-03-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. Great error message in the Download section of www.vim.org `Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 1794358973 Varnish cache server` Cheers, Phil... - -- But masters, remember that I am an ass. Though it be not written down, yet

Re: Cool error message

2012-03-29 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/2012 17:02, Magnus Woldrich wrote: Guru Meditation: Good old Amiga... :-) Ah, I see :-) - -- But masters, remember that I am an ass. Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass. Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado

Re: :help WITHOUT split screen

2012-03-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2012 13:39, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 13:51, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz v...@numerixtechnology.de wrote: This is one of my biggest bug bears and it drives me absolutely nuts: Is there a way to prevent :help from

Re: :help WITHOUT split screen

2012-03-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/03/2012 14:35, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:39:33 +0200 Guido Van Hoecke gui...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to prevent :help from splitting the window?! cabbrev h tab help Many thanks - works fine here.

E365 hardcopy

2012-03-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. Out of the blue this morning my Debian Squeeze Vim (7.2.445 console=huge GUI=gtk2+huge) has started throwing the hardcopy error: `E365: Failed to print Postscript file` this is on both the GUI console Debian supplied Vims. Apt hasn't

Re: E365 hardcopy

2012-03-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2012 14:23, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 31/03/12 13:38, Phil Dobbin wrote: Out of the blue this morning my Debian Squeeze Vim (7.2.445 console=huge GUI=gtk2+huge) has started throwing the hardcopy error: `E365: Failed to print Postscript

Re: E365 hardcopy

2012-03-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2012 17:03, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 31/03/2012 14:23, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On 31/03/12 13:38, Phil Dobbin wrote: Out of the blue this morning my Debian Squeeze Vim (7.2.445 console=huge GUI=gtk2+huge) has started throwing

Re: Switch to unicode.

2012-04-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/04/2012 15:55, john Culleton wrote: I am having a problem with Vim line returns being interpreted as end of paragraph markers in Scribus. Unicode may solve this problem. What string do I need in .vimrc to switch to unicode? `set

Vim manual

2012-04-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I downloaded a jolly good pdf of the Vim :help manual: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/usr_doc/index.html the other day the thought struck me that, to my knowledge, no hardcopy of same is in existence. Has this idea ever been mooted? In

Re: syntax highlight and indent awk code embedded in bash script?

2012-04-04 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/04/2012 22:02, Peng Yu wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2012-04-04, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2012-04-04, Peng Yu wrote: :h sh-awk this is only for syntax highlighting. I am not sure, if this

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2012 16:59, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-05 22:32 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: There doesn't seem to have been much of a positive response however to the idea in general so taking that into account if the vim list is ambivalent towards

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
healthy I think Bram should be the final arbiter after all. Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think is the best way to go will result in a much better looking final PDF from which to print. Cheers, Phil... On Apr 10, 2012 12:36 PM, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think is the best way to go will result in a much better looking final PDF from which to print

Re: Current Vim Versions [was: Re: How to search in digraphs?]

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2012 18:00, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, Boyko Bantchev wrote: Your version of digraph.txt is not in the compiled versions of Vim distributed from vim.org. It is not even in the source packages for those who would

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/04/2012 06:17, Paul Isambert wrote: Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents (manual reference) into tex I think

Re: Vim manual

2012-04-13 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13/04/2012 06:56, Paul Isambert wrote: On 12/04/2012 06:17, Paul Isambert wrote: Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com a écrit: On 10/04/2012 22:01, Andre Majorel wrote: On 2012-04-10 18:37 +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Putting the documents

Vim User Manual

2012-04-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all. I posted several weeks back postulating about producing a hard copy (or dead tree if you so wish) version of the Vim User Reference manual. I'm very pleased to announce that Paul Isambert I have agreed to embark upon this project. Our

Re: Vim User Manual

2012-04-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/2012 21:56, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: I posted several weeks back postulating about producing a hard copy (or dead tree if you so wish) version of the Vim User Reference manual. I'm very pleased to announce

Re: Vim User Manual

2012-04-19 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/04/2012 19:29, Charlie Kester wrote: On 04/18/2012 09:27 PM, Paul Isambert wrote: Phil Dobbinphildob...@gmail.com a écrit: On 18/04/2012 21:56, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Phil Dobbin wrote: I posted several weeks back postulating about

Re: _vimrc

2012-04-20 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/04/2012 06:05, hilal Adam wrote: I an not sure if this an acceptable request or not. My apologies if not. Would experts like Ben Fritz, Marcin, Jurgen share their vimrc files with this forum? If you go to GitHub enter vimrc as a search

Re: why is it so difficult to start using vim (may be just for me).

2012-10-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
Deepak adhikari wrote: I am trying to use this editor, searched stackoverflow.com http://stackoverflow.com (didn't ask though) went to vim.org http://vim.org but very complex operations are explained and found difficult to grasp. just trying to know some basic commands like how to start,

Re: Strange issue with Pathogen

2012-10-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
Rostislav Svoboda wrote: I'm having a strange issue with Pathogen. I'm trying to keep my Vim configuration and plugins organised on several computers so I decided to create a git repo for it. I had the same problem and realized Vundle works for me better than pathogen I second the

Re: basic vim usage

2012-11-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
Fredrik Andersson wrote: On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:37 PM, vicky b vickyb2...@gmail.com mailto:vickyb2...@gmail.com wrote: no i dont want to use GUI , i want to use vim not gvim how can copy and paste with ease in vim y for yank (copy) p for paste Use the * register to

Re: Is Vundle dead?

2012-11-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/24/2012 06:14 PM, Paul wrote: I am wondering just how often Vundle updates its list of scripts. I am aware that it’s FAQ says “multiple times per day from the RSS feed”¹, and the feed says it was last updated on 2012-11-09. tComment was updated recently to version 2.07², so I did a

Re: Is Vundle dead?

2012-11-25 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/25/2012 05:55 PM, Marcin Szamotulski wrote: On 08:46 Sun 25 Nov , Chris Lott wrote: On this topic-- is it difficult to move from Pathogen to VAM? Can I keep my bundle directory of plugins but use VAM with it? [snip for brevity] As an aside, this topic is starting to generate spam

Re: email plugin

2012-11-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/30/2012 01:30 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:07 -0800, Bee wrote: If you are looking for an email client that can use vim as the editor, I am happy with Sylpheed, Simple and fast. Bill you can configure evolution and thunderbird to use gvim as an external

Re: email plugin

2012-11-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/30/2012 03:28 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:12 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 11/30/2012 01:30 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:07 -0800, Bee wrote: If you are looking for an email client that can use vim as the editor, I am happy with Sylpheed

Re: email plugin

2012-11-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/30/2012 04:01 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:33 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 11/30/2012 03:28 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 15:12 +, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 11/30/2012 01:30 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:07 -0800, Bee wrote

Re: email plugin

2012-11-30 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/30/2012 06:22 PM, Reid Thompson wrote: On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 13:00 -0500, ping wrote: thanks. I'll test it out. ... but I seems unlucky -- I can't even get it installed (ubuntu 64bit 12.04) ping@640g-laptop:~$ sudo gem install vmail [sudo] password for ping: Fetching:

Re: Fuzzy Finder opens buffers in previous buffer rather than current one

2012-12-18 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/18/2012 10:50 PM, Pablo Giménez wrote: 2012/12/17 Asis Hallab asis.hal...@gmail.com mailto:asis.hal...@gmail.com Dear Pablo, Fuzzyfinder is somewhat outdated. I would strongly recommend to use the CtrlP plugin http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3736

Re: Spam from ad...@139.com

2012-12-20 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/20/2012 08:02 AM, John Beckett wrote: I have no idea why, but it appears that the spam from ad...@139.com to anyone who posts to vim_use has stopped. As I mentioned, I have emailed everyone who receives vim_use asking about the problem (in batches of 60 at a time). Thanks to those who

Re: Vundle and mercurial repos

2012-12-22 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/22/2012 04:12 PM, Marco wrote: Hi, I use Vundle to manage my plugins. Is it possible to add a plugin stored in a mercurial repository? As it stands at the moment, it doesn't look like it can (but I'm no Vimscript expert). Have you tried to add a mercurial repo? Cheers, Phil...

Re: question: vim copy to another place, eg:doc

2013-01-02 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/03/2013 02:15 AM, lei yang wrote: Hi experts, I know in one text,we can use yy to copy something to another place in text, if I can't to copy something to another place, eg: from a text,and copy something using vim, and paste( we don't need to use vim) something to another place,

Re: Default PYTHONPATH for vim (Mac OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion)

2013-01-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/10/2013 08:40 PM, William Broach wrote: Hello, On a fresh install of Mac OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, vim reports its PYTHONPATH as follows: :python import sys; print(sys.path) ['/usr/lib/python27.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',

Re: ctrl-f and ctrl-b don't scroll an entire page

2013-01-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/11/2013 07:34 PM, Charles Campbell wrote: Hello! When I press ctrl-f and ctrl-b I seem to get a full page (in my case, 28 lines) less 2, both forward (via ctrl-f) and backward (via ctrl-b). I'd like to have my mpage plugin (which shows a buffer with multiple contiguous pages) scroll

Re: vim: how to disable vim backup file when launching vim command?

2013-01-20 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/21/2013 07:24 AM, ping wrote: vim backup file is great in 99% scenarios, but it's annoying to create an un-wanted file in some system directories, especially in dirs that contains configurations for apps. how, can I disable the backup file creation, right when I launch vim to read a

Re: Powerline and terminal issues

2013-01-31 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/31/2013 08:14 PM, Marco wrote: Hi, this might be the wrong mailing list for my issue. However, I think that many of you use a very similar setup and might have an idea how to solve it. I use the vim-powerline plugin. The problem is that in rxvt-unicode it does not show up

Re: gvim color scheme in vim

2013-02-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/01/2013 10:16 AM, rudrab wrote: Dear friends, I am using slate color scheme in gvim(vim-X11 package in fedora). The problem is this color scheme (and many other) is not obeyed by vim. So, while slate is dark, vim is still showing white background and comments on yellow (neither is a

Re: gvim color scheme in vim

2013-02-01 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 02/01/2013 10:35 AM, Rudra Banerjee wrote: Mine is also gtk-2 version. my vimrc looks like(I only use vimrc, not gvimrc) set autoindent set smartindent set incsearch set ignorecase set smartcase set novisualbell set paste set ruler set expandtab set smarttab set shiftwidth=3 set

Re: Favourite Terminal for use with vim ?

2013-02-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 12/02/2013 15:37, Patrick wrote: Hi Everyone. I would like to switch from gvim to vim. Some terminals don't seem to support syntax highlighting well. I've got rxvt-unicode looking great with vim but I am wondering about other options. What is your favourite terminal to run vim in?

Re: Trouble building vim on a mac

2013-02-22 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 22/02/2013 11:21, So8res wrote: I'm trying to build vim on a mac. I'm pretty new to macs, so I'm almost undoubtably doing something wrong. I have the Xcode developer tools etc. installed, but when I clone vim from the mercurial head, configure, and make, I get the following: gcc -c -I.

Re: make vim remember where I left

2013-03-15 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 15/03/2013 21:29, FlashBurn wrote: Like most of us I open plenty of files at the same time with vim. The problem is that whenever I go from file 1 to file 2 and then back to file 1, Vim doesn't remember where I left off. It opens the file and puts the cursor on line 1. Is there a way to

Learn Vimscript the Hardway

2013-04-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. My hard copy paperback of Steve Losh's 'Learn Vimscript the Hardway' arrived yesterday I thought I let everybody know it's out. As can be judged by the title, it's about the only book I know of that attempts to teach Vimscript it looks pretty good (disclaimer: I know next to nothing

Re: How can I open help in the current window?

2013-04-22 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 22/04/2013 11:37, Thiago Padilha wrote: I googled about this but only found how to open in a vertical split or in a full window. I cannot find how can I navigate to help without splitting or breaking my current layout. Normally I already have two windows splitting the screen vertically

Re: I'm not getting highlighting syntax for .twig files..

2013-04-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 27/04/2013 14:41, Javier Garcia wrote: Hi, I have installed .vim/syntax/htmljinja.vim and wrote this in my .vimrc: au BufRead,BufNewFile *.twig set syntax=htmljinja Try: 'au BufRead,BufNewFile {*.twig} set ft=htmljinja' Cheers, Phil... -- -- You received this message from

Re: I'm not getting highlighting syntax for .twig files..

2013-04-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 27/04/2013 19:39, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2013-04-27, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 27/04/2013 14:41, Javier Garcia wrote: Hi, I have installed .vim/syntax/htmljinja.vim and wrote this in my .vimrc: au BufRead,BufNewFile *.twig set syntax=htmljinja Try: 'au BufRead,BufNewFile {*.twig} set ft

Re: delete last character of multiple lines

2013-05-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 08/05/2013 18:29, Jürgen Krämer wrote: : what should i do in order to delete last character of multiple lines?\ How about visually selecting the lines and then: :','norm! $x or :','s/.$// Does the '.' replace a character with nothing? Cheers, Phil... -- currently

Re: delete last character of multiple lines

2013-05-08 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 08/05/2013 19:46, Tim Chase wrote: On 2013-05-08 19:15, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 08/05/2013 18:29, Jürgen Krämer wrote: :','s/.$// Does the '.' replace a character with nothing? This is the method I'd default to. It's a standard search/replace command. The pattern searched for is any

Re: Vundle vs Pathogen

2013-05-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 23/05/2013 16:19, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 14:38, Donie Leigh wrote: I found that the vim-scripts repo is not updated in time, the latest activity was carried out a month ago ! As an OCD patient of updating, I cannot tolerate old versions of vim scripts. I don't

Write out error message

2013-05-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. Is there a way to write out to file or buffer the error message that comes up bottom left above the command line when one of the installed plugins throws an error? Any help appreciated. Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.9 6.4, Debian Squeeze Wheezy, Fedora Beefy,

Re: Write out error message

2013-05-24 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 24/05/2013 13:02, David Fishburn wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Phil Dobbin phildob...@gmail.com mailto:phildob...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all. Is there a way to write out to file or buffer the error message that comes up bottom left above the command line when one

Re: ESC key stopped working -- any alternate for menuless vim to get to normal mode?

2013-10-07 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 08/10/2013 05:47, Chris Lott wrote: On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Nikolay Pavlov zyx@gmail.com wrote: Note: on the keyboard where I have neither Control nor Escape (Motorola Droid 4 hardware keyboard) I mapped jj to ESC. I found mapping jk (or maybe kj now that I think about it)

Vim on XP

2013-10-11 Thread Phil Dobbin
Hi, all. After starting with computers in '87 with the now Classic Mac OS going onto OS X in 2000 Linux in 2005, today I was presented with my very first Windows machine (XP Pro) for a project I'm doing. The second thing I did after installing Chrome was to install gVim74 place a highly

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