Re: search for a list of words

2015-05-08 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 9:28:49 AM UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote: On 2015-05-08 15:17, Fetchinson . wrote: Is it possible to search for a list of words? I mean if I have a text I'd like to search for either 'foo' or 'bar' and when the matches are highlighted, I'd like to be able to jump

configure options in :version

2015-05-31 Thread Richard Mitchell
Could the configure options be embedded into the :version output? :version shows the options, but not in a format that can be cut-n-pasted back into a configure command. This would allow someone to (more) easily duplicate how a previous version of vim was compiled. [cue someone showing a

Re: macvim for Yosemite?

2015-05-24 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 8:14:46 PM UTC-4, Chris Lott wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Eric Christopherson echristopherson@ wrote: redirects to https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim . (I'm unsure of how canonical it is, though, since it's a fork of b4winckler's MacVim.) That's

Re: macvim for Yosemite?

2015-05-21 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 1:41:43 PM UTC-4, russur wrote: Hi All, I have been using Macvim on my old Powerpc mac for some time now, no problems. My wife bought me a newish mac mini running Yosemite OS X. In looking to see if there is a version of Macvim that runs on this, i seem to be

Re: macvim for Yosemite?

2015-05-21 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 1:41:43 PM UTC-4, russur wrote: Hi All, I have been using Macvim on my old Powerpc mac for some time now, no problems. My wife bought me a newish mac mini running Yosemite OS X. In looking to see if there is a version of Macvim that runs on this, i seem to be

Re: Question about highlighting all matches of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine

2015-11-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 6:41:12 PM UTC-5, DrChip wrote: > John Fishburn wrote: > > I know that > > .set hlsearch > > will highlight all matches of search patterns. > > > > My question is, can this highlighting be done only for occurrences of a > > local variable within a C/C++

Re: Question about highlighting all matches of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine

2015-11-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 11:13:41 AM UTC-5, DrChip wrote: > Richard Mitchell wrote: > > I had trouble getting this to work. > > > > The first issue was SaveWinPosn was not defined. I found it in > > cecutil.vba, but I don't see this being mentioned as a prer

Re: Question about highlighting all matches of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine

2015-11-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 2:09:13 PM UTC-5, Richard Mitchell wrote: > On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 11:13:41 AM UTC-5, DrChip wrote: > > Richard Mitchell wrote: > > > > I had trouble getting this to work. > > > > > > The first issue wa

Re: Question about highlighting all matches of a local variable within a C/C++ subroutine

2015-11-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 4:18:17 PM UTC-5, Richard Mitchell wrote: > On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 2:09:13 PM UTC-5, Richard Mitchell wrote: > > On Sunday, November 22, 2015 at 11:13:41 AM UTC-5, DrChip wrote: > > > Richard Mitchell wrote: > > > > > >

Re: xolox/vim-notes and YouCompleteMe

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:16:45 AM UTC-5, Richard Mitchell wrote: > YouCompleteMe seems to work for unknown file types by just expanding words > previously entered in the file, but it doesn't (for me) do that with a notes > file. > > I would like to have YCM pop-up words fo

Re: xolox/vim-notes and YouCompleteMe

2016-03-12 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 5:09:53 AM UTC-5, Richard Mitchell wrote: > On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:16:45 AM UTC-5, Richard Mitchell wrote: > > YouCompleteMe seems to work for unknown file types by just expanding words > > previously entered in the file, but it does

Re: Outlining folding rule

2016-04-02 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 2:17:22 AM UTC-4, Nicola wrote: > On 2016-03-31 20:53:34 +, Nicola said: > > > The following foldexpr is giving me headaches because it doesn't work > > under all circumstances: > > > > > > fun! s:outlinerFoldingRule(n) > > return getline(a:n) =~ '^\s*:' ? >

Re: Wrong vim color syntax

2016-07-14 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 11:03:47 AM UTC-4, Willem D'Haese wrote: > On Thursday, 7 July 2016 07:20:22 UTC+2, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > Am 2016-07-06 22:18, schrieb Willem D'Haese: > > > Hello, > > > > > > There seems something wrong with the coloring in this code with VIM - > > > Vi

Re: Digest for vim...@googlegroups.com - 12 updates in 3 topics

2016-07-15 Thread Richard Mitchell
s, so only I see it when I'm editing. I wouldn't expect or want to have the extensions on anything in my PATH. On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 8:19:58 AM UTC-4, Graham Nicholls wrote: > @Richard Mitchell. > > > I can't tell you how much I object to this. (I'm not being aggressive, > hone

Re: VIM is a usability nightmare ;)

2017-07-24 Thread Richard Mitchell
The "oops" was in response to the auto message about top-posting. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because

Re: Arduino with vim (read "no IDE"-challenge)

2017-07-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 9:44:31 AM UTC-4, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > I want to try writing, compiling and uploading Arduino sketches > without using the IDE (I prefere vim (obviously) as editor and > switching between IDE and the then called "external editor" is > quite fiddly). > >

Re: vim versions

2017-11-03 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, November 3, 2017 at 7:42:14 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Renato Fabbri wrote: > > vim commit messages are tagged with 8.0.1173 (last digit being incremented > > at each commit) > > while git pull reports 8.0.1257. > > > > Are these the stable

images and retina display

2018-06-19 Thread Richard Mitchell
What does the new retina display mean for images and scaling? "issue 6682: Add an experimental feature (on in beta) to show inline images at ret…" Images now display "smaller" (higher res) and changes my calculations on how to center an image. Before I was diving the image size by the font

toggle cursor guide from via command line?

2017-12-29 Thread Richard Mitchell
Can the cursor guide be toggled via a script/command line? Normally I like the cursor guide on, but I'm writing some code that moves the cursor around the screen quit a bit and the cursor guide is distracting. I'd like the program to be able to disable it on start and then restore it at the

Re: toggle cursor guide from via command line?

2017-12-29 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 1:16:09 PM UTC-5, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Richard Mitchell wrote: > > Can the cursor guide be toggled via a script/command line? > > > > Normally I like the cursor guide on, but I'm writing some code that

Re: vim-debugstring - Debug printf()-style at the speed of light

2018-01-03 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 2:25:59 AM UTC-5, Nikos Koukis wrote: > Hey vimmers, happy new year! > > This is a description to a plugin that I developed. This is my first plugin > in Vim and I wanted to ask for some feedback, mainly: > > - Do you think it's in any way useful? > - Is there

Re: images and retina display

2018-06-20 Thread Richard Mitchell
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Re: str2float() issue

2018-11-25 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Sunday, November 25, 2018 at 8:41:56 AM UTC-5, Wolf wrote: > See help for str2float() - all > "text after the number is silently ignored" for the second case. > > See help in the Variables section 1.1, under the section for conversion. > For the first case; octal conversion happened in the

Re: List of mirrors - help needed

2019-08-24 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 1:24:52 PM UTC-4, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > -- > hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: > 111. You and your friends get together regularly on IRC, even though > all of you live in the same city. > I was expecting the last word to be "house"

Re: [VIM] Re: netrw and tunneling

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 1:12:55 PM UTC-4, Walter Cazzola wrote: > On Fri, 9 Aug 2019, 'Grant Taylor' via vim_use wrote: > > >> Any idea? > > > Yes. > > > Teach OpenSSH how to get to the host by putting entries in the OpenSSH > > /client/ configuration file; ~/.ssh/config or system wide

Re: [VIM] Re: netrw and tunneling

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, August 9, 2019 at 10:32:18 PM UTC-4, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/9/19 12:08 PM, Richard Mitchell wrote: > > The tunnel would only be used for that host, which you already have > > to get to by going through the intermediate host. It isn't going to > > force othe

Re: Retrive old inserts

2020-02-15 Thread Richard Mitchell
does your .vimrc file include: set backup and possibly set backupdir=SOMEPATH ? If so, your chances are good. On Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 10:19:29 AM UTC-5, Alessandro Falcione wrote: > > I wrote something in a file and then accidentally removed the file, is > there any possibility

Re: unchangeable lines

2019-12-29 Thread Richard Mitchell
This probably isn't what the original poster had in mind, but this made me think what if vim could use a template file that acted as a mask? Anywhere characters (X for example) existed in the mask file, those positions would not be changeable in the 'edit' file. If the movement commands

Re: Populate arglist with files, exclude directories

2020-01-05 Thread Richard Mitchell
What shell are you using? I'm guessing bash? Time to update to zsh ls *(.) will list only regular files. conversely ls -d *(/) will list only directories. zsh is to bash what tcsh was to csh, but a couple magnitudes more. oh-my-zsh and iterm2 (if OS X) and you'll never look back. On

Re: VIM crash with YouCompleteMe plugin

2020-04-21 Thread Richard Mitchell
YCM is currently working for me. My Vim is a little behind yours (but I thought it was recent): VIM - Vi IMproved 8.2 (2019 Dec 12, compiled Apr 13 2020 06:16:41) macOS version Included patches: 1-539 Huge version with MacVim GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): Compilation: gcc -c -I.

Re: Vim saves file with lowercase filename

2020-04-01 Thread Richard Mitchell
As in a plugin you wrote or one you are using? If the latter, you could mention its name for others to be aware of. (just so when someone comes along later googling this same problem, they'll know the resolution) On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 11:14:41 AM UTC-4, Ni Va wrote: > > Sorry for

Re: Archives of vimconf 2020

2020-09-07 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 11:39:12 AM UTC-4, Zdenek Dohnal wrote: > > Hi, > > all videos are now private - will they be public available later? > > On 9/7/20 10:57 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Mo, 07 Sep 2020, het jagani wrote: > > > >> I missed the conference. Is there anyway

Re: Meta: How to read this forum/board now that Google Groups is busted

2020-09-08 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 4:38:30 AM UTC-4, ottavio2006-usenet2012 wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 02:30, Tony Mechelynck > > wrote: > > > > FWIW, it is still possible to revert (for the time being) to the > > former look & feel. I think it involves a rolldown widget near top > >

Re: vimrc: identify "small" version vs "huge" version

2020-10-02 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 11:34:49 AM UTC-4, ping wrote: > > experts: > I found in centos 7 there is /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/vim, with same > version, patches. > but vi is the "small" version and "vim" is the huge one. > obviously both will use same .vimrc, and when vi is used a lot of

Re: vimrc: identify "small" version vs "huge" version

2020-10-02 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 11:34:49 AM UTC-4, ping wrote: > > experts: > I found in centos 7 there is /usr/bin/vi and /usr/bin/vim, with same > version, patches. > but vi is the "small" version and "vim" is the huge one. > obviously both will use same .vimrc, and when vi is used a lot of

Re: Use :bdel to close directory listing?

2020-10-09 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Friday, October 9, 2020 at 6:28:55 PM UTC-4, Dominique Pelle wrote: > > Charles Campbell > wrote: > > > You can get v171a from my website: > > http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#NETRW . > > Hi Charles > > The above URL and your website http://www.drchip.org/ > do not work for

Re: Use :bdel to close directory listing?

2020-10-11 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 5:40:00 AM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 11:29 AM Tony Mechelynck > > wrote: > > > > P.S. I can get (from Belgium) to Dr. Chip's site with no problem but > > downforeveryoneorjustme.com cannot. > > > > Best regards, > > Tony. >

Re: Yahoogroups is closing down

2020-10-14 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 2:10:34 PM UTC-4, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > On Mi, 14 Okt 2020, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > Google groups just got a refresh, it's very unlikely it will go away. > > And if it does, Google has a good reputation of allowing for exporting > > all

Re: Meta: How to read this forum/board now that Google Groups is busted

2020-08-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
Most, really? I've always read and post to groups using groups.google.com. Google's new format sucks. The most irritating thing (for me) is it does not show which groups have new messages. I've tried and reverted back many times just to give more negative feedback. On Saturday, August 22,

Re: Meta: How to read this forum/board now that Google Groups is busted

2020-08-22 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 3:01:22 PM UTC-4, ottavio2006-usenet2012 wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 18:37, Richard Mitchell > wrote: > > > > Most, really? > > A quick loot at posters' email reveals most don't use gmail; I assume > they check their ema

how to extend search-for-word-under-cursor

2020-09-29 Thread Richard Mitchell
Can a search-for-word-under-cursor be extended to search for both that word and the same word with a specific leading character? For example, when sitting on "foo", I want to find both "foo" and "_foo", but not anything else. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not

Re: how to extend search-for-word-under-cursor

2020-09-29 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 4:24:56 PM UTC-4, Tim Chase wrote: > > On 2020-09-29 13:05, Richard Mitchell wrote: > > Can a search-for-word-under-cursor be extended to search > > for both that word and the same word with a specific leading > > character? &g

Re: Vim online conference - hopin.to account required

2020-09-26 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 2:51:39 PM UTC-4, russur wrote: > > Where are all the Vim Conference videos. They look like they have all been > taken down? > > Thanks, > > Russ > Try going to: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcTu2VkAIIWzD2kicFNHN2c35XQCeZdsv If that doesn't work,

Re: vimdiff with only the different lines shown

2020-11-07 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 2:15:02 AM UTC-5, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > is there a way to do a vimdiff of two files in a way, that only the > different (and on one or the other side missing) lines are shown? > > With "shown" I don't want other lines to not to appear at all (that

Re: .swp files

2020-11-05 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 6:48:52 AM UTC-5, Kevin Reynolds wrote: > > God Damned Vim. > It keeps trashing my files. I just lost a file that included everything I > did in 2019 for some unknown reason. I open up the file and vim tells me > it's already open. So I recover it, and 90%

Re: .swp files

2020-11-05 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 12:51:57 PM UTC-5, Kevin Reynolds wrote: > > Thank you all for your immediate response, I did not expect that. Truly, > thank you. > Every morning when I get on my computer (MX linux) I update and backup. I > am always up to date and secure. > I know I'm

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: .swp files

2020-11-05 Thread Richard Mitchell
On Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 4:23:07 PM UTC-5, Ruben Safir wrote: > > On 11/5/20 4:19 PM, Kennedy, Marcus A. wrote: > > A good backup system should provide more than the most recent copy. > > > PLEASE do not do this. The swp files are already enough, if not too > much. VIM is simple and