On 29.12.19 17:43, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> I wonder if this could be easily hacked into the code of vim by creating a
> new syntax group called Unchangeable or something and adding code to make
> it uneditable.
Or more easily in the folding code? That already treats an arbitrary
number of lines as
On 31.07.19 12:15, Bee wrote:
> Does vim have the ability to reference a file made of files?
>
> file A is a subset of file B
> file A = text
> file B = file A plus more text
In my experience, Vim edits multiple files, one at the time, and you can
switch between them. Where you have created
On 03.06.19 13:43, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> Pour the remaining sauce over the enchiladas. Cover with leftover cheese
> and bake for about 20 minutes or until cheese is bubbling.
>
> becomes:
>
> Pour the remaining sauce over the enchiladas. Cover with leftover cheese
> and bake
On 11.05.19 14:34, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 10.05.19 19:29, Mathieu Roux wrote:
> > 1) |plouf| is colored is blue, and *plouf* is colored in red when open
> > with vi. It is function of hightlight, right? How can i use the same
> > highlight for my own-text file?
On 10.05.19 19:29, Mathieu Roux wrote:
> 1) |plouf| is colored is blue, and *plouf* is colored in red when open
> with vi. It is function of hightlight, right? How can i use the same
> highlight for my own-text file?
Not being a user of highlighting, I can only point to ":h highlight".
Mastering
On 07.05.19 21:19, Mathieu Roux wrote:
> 2) First i wanted to do it with "real tags" (with a tag-file made by
> ctag, and with ctrl-]), but if i understand good, it does not work like
> this.
> But if i understand good, i can press ctrl-] on the title of an article
> voir titre-de-larticle
> , to
On 07.04.19 13:51, meine wrote:
> hi,
>
> I found a site where a vim plugin was used for relative line numbering
> and I want to give it a try. relative line numbers make it easier to
> navigate in normal mode by just using `3j' instead of `256G'. the less
> keystrokes the better!
...
> does
On 03.12.18 17:40, Magnus Woldrich wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I'd like to stop vim from modifying the first n columns of a buffer, no
> matter what I do in it.
To comply with the requirement "no matter what I do in it", ISTM to be
necessary to use something like "cut" to strip the first n-1 columns
On 29.11.18 11:14, David Demelier wrote:
> I'm not sure if there is way to fix that, but I actually would like to use
> tabs of size 8 for every file except html.
>
> So basically I create a ~/.vim/ftplugin.html file with:
>
> set ts=4
> set sts=4
> set sw=4
> set noet
>
> Then, runnin `vim
On 24.11.18 06:46, Bradley Bell wrote:
> I have the following two lines in my .vimrc:
> :set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 expandtab
> set modeline
>
> On the first line of a file called automake.am, I have
> # vim: set noexpandtab:
It works for me in makefiles, using:
#
On 24.11.18 17:46, Steve wrote:
> Dear vimers,
>
> I'm currently doing some cleaning in my ~/.vim.
>
> Just noticed that my spell file are really old (2013):
>
> 83 déc 6 2013 en.utf-8.add
> 192 déc 6 2013 en.utf-8.add.spl
> 570549 fév 15 2013 en.utf-8.spl
> 556477 fév 15 2013
On 30.09.18 03:15, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/editor-faq/vi/part2/
> -- start quote 8< --
> 6.1 - Silly vi tricks
Seems to be a typo there? For decades some have used them as _Standard_
Vi(m) Operations, especially xp, as mistyping is more common than the
need for
On 13.09.18 01:53, Ni Va wrote:
>
> I need to edit buffer that contains vbscript that has chars and
> friends ...
>
> Without definitively write current edited file, How can I change all
> that chars in order to be able to make modification in an easy view ?
:%s//"/
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On 06.08.18 19:15, Tim Chase wrote:
> I still use two spaces in my source material particularly because I
> can `:set cpo+=J` and Vim will be smart enough to navigate by
> sentence even if I have intermediate punctuation that might otherwise
> be considered terminal. E.g.
>
> I saw Dr. Smith
On 06.08.18 11:40, David Woodfall wrote:
> I've noticed that when I select a block of text (written English
> prose, not code) and press gq to reformat it, vim will change some of
> the spaces after a period into two spaces, as is the convention among
> some typists.
>
> Is this intended, and can
On 01.08.18 13:19, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> On Mi, 01 Aug 2018, 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use wrote:
>
> > Extract from replies: `which` does not report on what bash will execute;
> > `type` does. Although `type` provides info on whether the command is hashed
> > or not, `type -a` does
On 04.07.18 14:47, David Woodfall wrote:
> Is there a way of doing a :bnext or :bprev that doesn't wrap? Or
> alternatively an option to turn off wrapping when navigating buffers?
If you step through the buffers with :n instead, it won't wrap.
However, if you fall into old habits, and slip in a
On 04.06.18 02:44, Patrik Iselind wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a use case that I run into quite often, but cannot find a solution
> for. So I ask here.
>
> I have an example document
> ```example document
> foo bar
> ```
>
> My cursor is at the first o character in foo. I would like to change
> foo
On 03.06.18 09:46, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Adam Monsen wrote:
>
> > I use undofiles heavily. I often copy a file along with its undofile when
> > creating a new similar file. I notice (a) the undofiles can get quite large
> > and (b) they compress very efficiently. I tested compressing a few
>
On 31.05.18 23:25, dmcco...@comcast.net wrote:
> Place the cursor on the last line (or any line other than the first line).
> Save the file (:w) and switch (:e) to view another file.
> Switch back (:e) to the original file.
> Notice that the cursor is on the first line, not where it was
On 31.05.18 08:09, Robert Bower wrote:
> I have the following abbreviation
> iab julianheader :r!~/.bin/datevim.sh
>
> It worked fine till I swapped the caps lock and the escape key at the
> os level. FYI I am using Ubuntu 16.04 Now the abbreviation no longer
> works. I am assuming in Vim now
On 06.05.18 12:42, Renzo Marengo wrote:
> I need to understand if VI can permit these operations:
>
> 1- to move cursor to next word, does it exist key-bindings to make it?
> 2- select specific part of text to copy it and to past it to another area
> inside the same file.
> 3- to insert tabs for
On 13.03.18 07:41, Ni Va wrote:
> The csv file attached below it produced from this code particularly by from
> s:results list of strings.
>
> I import it into excel and then do a sort from max to min spent time by third
> column.
>
> I would do the same from this vimscript below on in order
On 02.02.18 16:31, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> 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
On 09.01.18 07:55, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> IIRC, rgb.txt came from the X11 Server sources and those colors were not
> defined there.
>
> Anyhow, I cannot find it in the X11 Server source and in some commits
> they removed all references to that file. So it might no longer exist in
> a
On 24.09.17 14:57, 'Grant Taylor' via vim_use wrote:
> On 09/24/2017 11:46 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > I suppose the xterm source code must contain the "source of truth". I
> > was assuming Leonerd took it from there, but perhaps he didn't. Should
> > be easy to fix, but I wonder if Paul will
On 17.09.17 03:33, Antony Lee wrote:
> However, vim is by default unable to recognize a C++
> braced-initializer list, which effectively have similar semantics as
> parentheses in a function call; it will indent
> // Case 3: oops, 2-space indent, but 4 would be preferred.
> some_type{
>
On 14.08.17 19:23, Jose Caballero wrote:
> I am working on a host that didn't have ctags installed. I have just
> installed it.
The install order won't make any difference. Vim only needs to find a
tags file you've generated.
> However, I think I am missing some step.
> After creating the tags
On 03.08.17 06:58, Michael Henry wrote:
> I frequently use visual mode to select the word, then paste over
> the selection from register 0. Usually I don't want the
> behavior of ``dw`` because that removes trailing spaces and I
> typically have yanked only the replacement word (without
>
On 02.08.17 21:16, Bee wrote:
> Is it possible to complete 2 consecutive words?
> That is match the first and include the second?
That first becomes useful when repeated, so '.' is perhaps the quickest
and easiest solution: Find the first word (or the pair), c2w,
then hit 'n' for next match, and
On 02.08.17 17:45, Parag Bhatt [C] wrote:
> I am looking for a quick way to change a word(cw?) with one that was
> yanked (yw). I do not want to enter insert mode, and would like to do
> it in command mode.
With the cursor on the start of the target word, dw"0P will do it.
I admit that I had to
On 02.08.17 11:49, Lifepillar wrote:
> From time to time, I need to edit large files (~10^2-10^3 MB).
> In my tests, Vim loads large files relatively quickly (~100MB/s).
> It's (some) filetype plugins that hog Vim.
>
> For instance, take any large file and change its suffix to have
> it
On 22.07.17 17:21, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> To summarize my initial mail more clearly:
> What plugin is recommended, if I want to use vim to replace the tasks
> of the Arduino IDE.
> I am running Gentoo Linux on a x86 PC.
Hi Meino,
ISTM that if performing all coding and build actions in Vim,
On 05.07.17 00:25, Igor Forca wrote:
> To find OK and error message in vim:
> /AAA\d\d\d\D
>
> but how to get only error messages.
As you're seeking a numeric (not regex) exclusion, I'd skip complex
regex gymnastics, and just pipe the log file through "grep -v AAA000A"
before using your simple
On 30.06.17 15:41, Tim Chase wrote:
> Though I do get one extra line after the "creating auto/config.h"
> line:
>
>config.status: auto/config.h is unchanged
>
> I'm not sure how it's determining that, as there's no auto/config.h
> file present to compare it to.
Tim, what does:
$ locate
On 06.06.17 09:26, Tim Chase wrote:
> Ah, I'd misunderstood that it was ignoring the sign and you wanted
> to respect it. But you *wanted* to ignore the sign. Thus, you can
> omit the optional sign:
>
> :'<,'>s/\d\+/\=submatch(0)+22/g
>
> or move the "\zs" after the optional minus-sign
> to
On 06.06.17 08:38, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> On Di, 06 Jun 2017, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > Thanks Tim, I'll make a note of that for possible future use, but the
> > crux remains: inc/dec of the magnitude, irrespective of sign. It looks
> > like I'd need to c
On 05.06.17 08:29, Tim Chase wrote:
> While a side-stepping of your literal request, you can do
> incrementing/decrementing in search replacements.
>
> For all numbers in a range:
>
> :'<,'>s/-\=\d\+/\=submatch(0)+22/g
>
> to add 22 to all numbers in that range of lines.
...
Thanks Tim, I'll
Both ^a and ^x have proven very useful in a variety of scenarios. Now,
while editing some postscript, I sometimes have to decrement the
magnitude of a series of literal constants by a common amount, and if
there were mod variants of ^a and ^x, I'd be able to hit '.' on them
all, instead of having
On 04.05.17 17:30, Christian Brabandt wrote:
>
> On Do, 04 Mai 2017, Charles E Campbell wrote:
>
> > What is v+ and v- ?
>
> A special label used by mutt and vim to display the following lines like
> shell window.
Charles, a longer explanation is that some of us use t-prot
On 24.04.17 19:50, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> $ cat my-src/hacks/vi/fork
> vi: set noml | w! | ! vim % :
> vi: e! % | w! | q :
>
> foobar
> $
>
> I don't remember writing that, but I can fully believe I did. (There's
> other stuff there, I'm sure I have written.
>
> What this does is
On 14.03.17 22:20, Vim the Best wrote:
> When we use Vim, what's the best way to add two spaces between
> sentences automatically rather than manually press the space bar
> twice?
Perhaps you could use an iab, if necessary, using e.g. ".." for ". ".
It still saves one keystroke, and does not
On 04.03.17 14:31, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> thanks a lot...but I received nothing here...(?!)
>
> Cheers
> Meino
Hi Meino,
That's a new email address, we've not seen before, even on this thread.
I've forwarded the post to that one as well. The one to the address
you used
On 04.03.17 12:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> But without the physical copy of that mail I cant reply to Ben/the
> list.
>
> What is the best way to answer without cluttering threads and
> mail IDs ?
I've forwarded a copy of that post offlist. As you're using mutt as MUA,
I figure you're
On 04.03.17 11:42, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had to chance my mail address and that
> may / may not work half...
But it hasn't changed in half a decade or more, Meino?
> If someone could read me I would
> be glad for an answer to the
> mailing list.
Perhaps you wonder because the
On 02.03.17 09:07, Barry Gold wrote:
> I want to use word-wrap on my C++ comments.
>
> My .vimrc file contains
> set tw=75
> set fo+=tcjro
>
> But when I type a long C++ style comment, I get
> // This object contains the logic (code and data) for making the
> first pass over the
On 11.02.17 11:37, Søren kjeil wrote:
> I'd like to highlight words that I have not previously used.
>
> This would let me know when if I misspelled a name.
By itself, that would also highlight the first use of every word in your
text, making it hard to spot misspellings, I expect.
> Is there a
On 02.01.17 03:42, Tihomir Mitkov wrote:
> Is it possible to have certain lines uneditable while keeping the rest of
> them editable?
In *nix, almost anything is possible. You could either excise the
protected lines with e.g. Awk, then reinsert them after exit from Vim
to the wrapper script, or
On 07.12.16 15:17, Brett Stahlman wrote:
> "Quiet" is an understatement. Only 1 thread active in the past 5 days,
> and no posts at all since 2 days ago, with several posts unanswered?!
> Something's changed...
Intrusion of meatspace distractions? (Some still digesting turkey, many
working on
On 25.09.16 16:24, Stefan Klein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how string the builtin encryption of vim really is.
> The manpage states: "cryptmethod zip [ ... ] breakable [ ... ] a 6
> character key in one day (on a Pentium 133 PC)"
> Guess today's computers will use seconds if not microseconds.
>
>
On 13.09.16 08:23, Amit Christian wrote:
> Here is my question:
>
> I find it still difficult to go to next lines or browsing up or down
> through the text. Can any one please help me with efficient use of
> working with text without a usual j,k,h,l use? Are there resources or
> help on internet?
On 24.07.16 15:02, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> If someone wants to start with 'nocompatible', but not all of the new
> option values, a .vimrc would be needed to change the settings. This is
> the most common and also most tricky part. Assuming that the user will
> want most of the new option
On 14.06.16 05:57, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>
> if has('digraphs') && has('multi_byte')
> dig ** 8226 " • U+2022 BULLET
> dig ,, 8230 " … U+2026 HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
> " dig ff 64256 " ff U+FB00 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FFthe commented ones
> " dig fi 64257 " fi U+FB01 LATIN SMALL LIGATURE FI
On 13.06.16 16:29, David Woodfall wrote:
> I did once use the uft8 symbol for ellipsis, but it really killed the
> readability of it.
Ah ... yes, the spaced out dots are especially good for indicating
hesitation/thinking in dialogue or even a list reply.
Maybe we need Vim spellchecking to
On 13.06.16 14:45, David Woodfall wrote:
> >Any ideas? (Other than renaming my txt files to tex)
>
> Actually, renaming doesn't work either. It seems that some things are
> still spellchecked up the top of the document. If I put an ellipsis
> near the end it's fine.
>
> Stumped...
>
> I'm sure
On 20.05.16 09:56, Eric Smith wrote:
> It do not need syntax highlighting in my vims spawned from mutt,
> but I do want email address completion!
If including '@' in a vim dictionary remains problematic, the fact that
you're using mutt provides an alternative method. Mutt email aliases
allow the
On 14.04.16 18:00, LCD 47 wrote:
>
> As for Vim: its regexes have features not present in any other
> language. People use them, and thousands of plugins and syntax files
> rely on them. You're asking to break all of them because you _prefer_
> something else?
Please quote a whole message
On 14.04.16 14:40, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Am 2016-04-14 12:14, schrieb Erik Christiansen:
> >So many unix utilities support POSIX "Modern" EREs, that it is the best
> >standard to conform to. There's then only one regex dialect to learn.
> >(Queue
On 12.04.16 21:15, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On Di, 12 Apr 2016, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> >If vim supported posix extended RE's,
Some of us have been asking for that for around a decade now.
So many unix utilities support POSIX "Modern" EREs, that it is the best
standard to conform to. There's
On 13.03.16 19:54, Yang Luo wrote:
> input i_start_addr ;
> input num_pad_y ;
> input i_en ;
> input i_sram_ren0 ;
> input i_sram_raddr0 ;
> input i_wdata0 ;
...
With the cursor before the first such line,
.,$s/ *;$//
will delete any ';' at
On 13.03.16 06:18, bsta...@gmail.com wrote:
> 在 2016年3月13日星期日 UTC+8下午7:51:43，Yang Luo写道：
> > this is a subtitle.srt, I want to delete all the Chinese character(like
> > this:距离地球4亿英里，存在这一个迷你太阳系，), how can I do it using vim command?
...
> %s/[^ -~]//g
Hey, that's good enough to try here. Might
On 06.03.16 20:23, Bee wrote:
> How do I add the option +xterm_clipboard to terminal vim?
>
> I can compile vim with all patches,
> but do not know how to get the option +xterm_clipboard.
It is a "configure" option. This shows running ./configure with a couple
of options:
On 26.02.16 08:29, Roman wrote:
> I use ':.w !sh' to run some lines with shell commands
> Is any way to transfer output of this commands back to buffer or maybe
> to split buffer window or do something like ':r !sh $current_line'
The easiest way to return the result is not to use ":.w", but the !
On 12.02.16 03:02, Elmar Hinz wrote:
>
> > It doesn't say why though, and the reason IIUC is that vi did it
> > that way, and it's such a basic command that millions are used to
> > it. IMO we'd be better off with consistency, c{motion} is like
> > d{motion} then enter insert mode, without this
On 11.02.16 03:43, 'Elmar Hinz' via vim_use wrote:
> the normal behaviour of the w motion is to move n words forward and to act
> exclusively.
Yes, the motion is (mostly) to the start of the next/nth word. (exclusive)
> Different from this the normal behaviour of cw is to change to the end
> of
On 11.02.16 05:06, Elmar Hinz wrote:
> > The w motion is then perfectly as specified, and as expected.
> > It is particularly handy when correcting indentation of a few
> > lines to align with a leading line of arbitrary indentation:
> >
> > 1) Move to start of leading line, with ^.
> > 2) j
On 10.02.16 10:33, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Maybe "there is nothing but blanks" or "there are zero or more
> blanks"? And I suppose "blanks" means "whitespace characters" (spaces
> or tabs) here?
Is it simpler to understand "there are no non-blank characters"?
A single category is a minimally
On 09.02.16 15:19, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> 2016-02-09 14:48 GMT+03:00 Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net>:
> > Thank you for the hints, Tony, but nothing tried so far is making any
> > difference. Vim still won't display Cyrill
On 10.02.16 12:13, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Erik Christiansen
> <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> > On 09.02.16 15:19, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov wrote:
> >> See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_and_email.
> >>
>
On 09.02.16 09:49, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:24 AM, Erik Christiansen
> > Does anyone know what it takes to get vim to display Cyrillic, Greek, or
> > Russian characters in a (utf-8 enabled) xterm? (Note: Vim encoding while
> > editing this post, in wh
On 08.02.16 10:50, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> The next text will be from the Russian input method:
> АВСРОМИС
>
> This wasn't typed in Terminal, but I just typed Russian characters
> into Terminal, and they showed up fine.
Viewing Cyrillic, Greek, or Russian characters doesn't work for me in
"xterm"
On 26.01.16 13:11, Kenneth Reid Beesley wrote:
> Here’s my usual .gvimrc setup for encodings:
>
> “ encoding used internally in the edit buffer
> set encoding=utf-8
>
> “ default encoding for saving any new files created
> setglobal fileencoding=utf-8
>
> “ when editing an existing file, try
On 25.01.16 11:18, Kenneth Reid Beesley wrote:
> I know that the files are _supposed_ to be CP1252.
> But beforehand I don’t if or how they are corrupted. Usually the
> problem in a corrupted file is the presence of \x81, \x8D, \x8F, \x90
> and/or \x9D bytes, which are
On 24.01.16 12:14, A. B. wrote:
> Hello Vim-users,
>
> I've try to construct a regex to find the jumping positions of the )-movement.
> Unfortunately I can not concatenate two patterns with \|.
Concats are separated by \&.
\| separates branches. See :h regex.
In general regex terms, | can be
On 22.01.16 17:45, Kenneth Reid Beesley wrote:
>
> I have a number of 8-bit text files that _should_ be in CP1252, but they may
> contain byte values that are undefined for CP1252, e.g. \x81, \x8D, \x8F,
> \x90 and \x9d.
> I.e. these are potentially corrupted files that are mostly legal CP1252,
On 07.12.15 13:34, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Erik Christiansen
> <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> > The more structured approach also simplifies matters if it is decided to
> > place the source code under version control, but not anyth
On 04.12.15 13:55, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
> I am aware that is exactly what I asked, but I was wondering if there
> is a easy way to tell vim to ignore any filename ending by .o
The suggested glob ignore methods are simpler alternatives to explicitly
listing the filename extensions to be included,
On 01.11.15 21:03, toothpik wrote:
> with softtabstop set to 4 and set noexpandtab, in insert mode on a new
> line, when I enter a single character followed by a tab, 3 spaces are
> inserted
Not able to replicate that here, with Vim 7.4 (1-688). With tabstop=3
and noexpandtab, tabs of that size
On 21.10.15 05:20, Lowell Specht wrote:
> How do I establish my terminal session?
> terminal is Windows client app hummingbird exceed common desktop
> environment to logon to a HP unix server. From there, I ssh -Y to the
> linux server.
I have memories of using the same application for the same
On 15.10.15 07:21, Paul wrote:
> On Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 1:49:24 AM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
> >On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 8:12:27 AM UTC-4, Erik Christiansen
> >wrote:
> >> ISTM very intuitive that compounding excessive layers of
> >> highlighting resu
On 12.10.15 08:23, Paul wrote:
> On Monday, October 12, 2015 at 6:17:38 AM UTC-4, Erik Christiansen
> wrote:
> > What I'm using is just:
> >
> > " Cursor Appearance and behaviour:
> > " (Insert_Mode == Green, Normal_Mode == Red)
> > if =~ "xte
On 11.10.15 16:02, Paul wrote:
> I have the following function that flashes crosshairs in the current
> window so that my attention gets brought to where the active window
> is, and where the cursor is.
...
> I'm finding that if I have a window with many closed folds, *and* I
> have another
On 08.10.15 14:56, Sonny Chee wrote:
>
> But all of the text is auto-indented. Any help would be appreciated
Have you tried "set paste", instead?
If pasting from the X Clipboard, there's also: "+p
(That was "*p in old Vim versions, IIRC.)
Erik
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On 08.10.15 20:33, Gevisz wrote:
> In this connection I have only one inconvenience connected with the facts that
> 1) I usually have to use 3 keyboard layouts at the same time switching
>between them with a hot key,
> 2) it is impossible to have a "direct hot key switch" to a certain
>
On 06.10.15 01:01, Filype Pereira wrote:
> So, I started reading a vim book and didn't get very far, when I stopped at
> this line:
>
> > If you can't touch type, then go learn it and then come back to learn vim.
What a load of bollocks!
During three decades of earning a living developing
On 16.09.15 11:28, Gevisz wrote:
> Just looked in 'man apropos' and tried 'apropos mount'
>
> It does not work. Can you, please, provide an example.
The "apropos" command is the same as "man -k".
Here, both give 27 hits for "mount".
You'll need to diagnose the problem at your end.
Erik
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On 13.09.15 12:26, mwnx wrote:
> I created a plugin called VimCrypt to enable seamless reading and writing of
> encrypted files in vim, which I find useful for password lists and other
> sensitive information. Right now, it supports *openssl* and *gpg*, and can
> be extended to support other
On 15.09.15 12:17, mwnx wrote:
> Not sure what kinds of metrics you're talking about.
Thank you, the Wikipedia reference is enough to gain an idea of
blowfish's current security. In the first paragraph: "Blowfish provides
a good encryption rate in software and no effective cryptanalysis of it
has
On 13.09.15 12:03, Niels Kobschaetzki wrote:
> I read quite often "just use the help" or recently on the list "don't
> use google, use :help". But how do I "use" it? When I want to know if
> something is possible in vim, I never figured out how to search for it
> because I always got the feeling
On 26.08.15 15:00, Uwe Husmann wrote:
Those are textpads that will recognize and solve mathematical formulas and
equations.
I just wonder if there are similar plugins for vim that will do the same
thing or at least go in the same direction?
Sounds like an attempt to build a new emacs.
On 23.08.15 16:33, taschent...@posteo.de wrote:
i'm wondering whether VIM is really suitable for professional
software development. I have no considerable experience with vim,
linux, software development or anything else mentioned in this post,
i.e. i'm a beginner
...
Over three decades in
On 17.08.15 07:26, LCD 47 wrote:
On a side note: you can usually avoid dealing with :set for
options that take string values by using let option = ... instead of
set option= E.g. for the line above:
let comments = 'sO:* -,mO:* ,exO:*/,s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/,://'
Thanks for that,
On 15.08.15 19:47, BPJ wrote:
I have acquired a tendency to overuse `v` or `V` in cases where it is
not (strictly) needed. When writing prose I type `vipgq` or somesuch
and then immediately `v:w` or even `gv:w` on misguided reflex. I'm
curious what others have done when getting into such bad
On 14.08.15 04:02, Oliver Wraight wrote:
The behaviour I'm after is ludicrously simple:
/*
Comment block indented
by shiftwidth
*/
The behaviour I'm getting is:
/*
Comment block indented
by shiftwidth
*/
...
comments=sO:* -,mO:*
On 30.07.15 20:30, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Desired Enhancement:
...
Changing to named parameters fails through lack of an eval/expand on the
a:Format, but then also switching to strange appending syntax¹ ($put)
found on the list:
au BufWinEnter ~/Personal/rainfall/*/* call Append_Date('%d
On 30.07.15 07:52, Tim Chase wrote:
So combining those above with your enhancement request, I came up
with the following function which seems to do what you want:
function! Append_Date(fmt)
$put=strftime(a:fmt)
startinsert!
endfunction
Many thanks Tim. That does it exactly, is
On 30.07.15 09:41, Tim Chase wrote:
So the first ex command is the :put command (:help :put) with a
Doh! Yes, now it has a place in the jigsaw.
It is very early morning here, too late in the night for coffee.
I'll read up on it tomorrow. Have to fit in a bit of sleep somewhere.
Thanks.
Erik
What I have so far is:
Autoinsert date at end of file, _after_ reading modelines:
au BufWinEnter ~/Data/rainfall/*/* call Append_Date()
function! Append_Date()
normal G
:r !date '+\%d.\%m:'
normal A
endfunction
Problem:
The normal A moves the cursor to the end of the
On 21.07.15 01:02, aubertin.sylvain wrote:
For instance I should like to make F9 stand for papa
Following VIM Manual (by Moolenaar) I type :
:map F9 ipapaEsc (5 characters for Esc and 4 characters for F5 )
That works for me, when typed on Vim's command line, omitting your
bracketed
On 23.06.15 23:56, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
Erik,
Thanks for you commentbut it is solved. Now, another important
thinghow to invoke it! Is it possible to have something like this:
if (getline(.)) startswith Program au CursorMovedI call EdName()
i.e. calling a autocmd conditionally
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