Neither Emacs nor Vim nor Nano handle ligature literal insertion well

Hello, I would really like convenient access to ligatures in my word processing software. Unfortunately, none of the major text editing applications appears to handle ligatures intelligently: Each of Emacs, Vim, Nano, MS Word, Google Drive, Libre Office, and InDesign type a dumb "ae" when the

vi.bat helper

The Vim installer for Windows helps to add "vim" to the command PATH by adding a vim.bat file in C:\Windows. Could the installer also add a vi.bat file, so that developers can invoke Vim by the even shorter command "vi"? vi.bat: vim %* Cheers, Andrew -- -- You received this message from the

Trouble downloading VIm via FTP (MS Edge)

The ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim80-586.exe URL for downloading Vim doesn't play well with modern Web browsers like Edge, which now limit FTP support. Could we move Vim installation media to HTTP hosts, to make it easier for newbies to access these files? -- Cheers, Andrew -- -- You

Update Dockerfile syntax

Dockerfile's now offer an ARG command, similar to the ENV command. Could Vim please update the Dockerfile syntax highlighter to reflect this? -- Cheers, Andrew -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For

"No fold found" on many C functions

When I try to zc C functions, Vim often complains "No fold found" Example project: https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka -- -- 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

Fix folding braceless C blocks

When I try to zc a bare C block without any braces, like if (foo) printf("\n");, Vim does the wrong thing. Instead of folding the printf, Vim actually goes up past the if, and folds the parent block. ??? -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your

vim.org STILL fails to redirect to www.vim.org

For the love of Web accessibility, please do whatever is necessary to have vim.org redirect to www.vim.org. Broken domains suck. -- -- 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

don't allow vim to launch inside emacs/vim terminals

Please help Vim detect strange terminal environments (e.g. Emacs/Vim shells), and prohibit launching in these. Otherwise, it completely messes up the shell. -- Cheers, Andrew -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are

Trouble with right-to-left text

Vim has trouble placing right-to-left text in the right place on a line. For example, if the Arabic word for dog (الكلب) is inserted before some left-to-right text ("dog"), then Vim mistakenly moves the right-to-left text to the very end of the line, instead of where the file system shows it

gt greater-than missing from :help key-notation

:help key-notation shows lt less-than, but nothing for greater-than. Is this key missing from Vim, or just the documentation? -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you

Re: vim.org fails to redirect to www.vim.org for Chrome users

! An example Apache configuration that would quickly accomplish this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1157255/how-to-redirect-non-www-to-www-urls-using-htaccess/11990168#11990168 On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:54 AM, John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Pennebaker wrote: When I

Re: vim.org fails to redirect to www.vim.org for Chrome users

'ing. On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Павлов Николай Александрович zyx@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On August 20, 2014 11:42:59 PM GMT+03:00, Andrew Pennebaker andrew.penneba...@gmail.com wrote: Could we please setup a basic Apache redirection, so

Re: vim.org fails to redirect to www.vim.org for Chrome users

. Maybe my DNS cache is old? -- Cheers, Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us -- -- 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

vim.org fails to redirect to www.vim.org for Chrome users

When I enter vim.org into the address bar in Firefox, it successfully redirects to www.vim.org. But when I enter vim.org in Chrome, no redirect happens. Maybe check the Apache config? Observed with Google Chrome 36 in Mac OS X and Ubuntu. -- -- You received this message from the vim_use

Request: Treat .emacs files as Lisp code by default

Emacs kindly treats .vimrc files as VimScript. It would be nice if Vim reciprocated, treating .emacs files as Lisp code. This is helpful when temporarily switching to a different editor to fix configuration, or when editing files on computers where emacs and/or vim are not yet installed. --

Re: Request: Treat .emacs files as Lisp code by default

Oh, awesome! On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2014-07-10, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: Emacs kindly treats .vimrc files as VimScript. It would be nice if Vim reciprocated, treating .emacs files as Lisp code. It does, at least in Vim 7.4.283. You

vi defaults to dos line endings for new .gitignore file

I've put set fileformat=unix in my ~/.vimrc and ~/_vimrc, but when I vi .gitignore, it defaults to dos line endings. Can someone help me correct this behavior? -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For