Re: Possible problem with sudden shortening of very large files by an external process

2010-03-01 Thread Gary Bickford
Bram Moolenaar wrote: Gary Bickford wrote: I often misuse vim to view log files while debugging batch jobs. It is very handy for moving around in the file, viewing the colorized content and searching for relevant text. These log files can be from several thousand to millions of lines

Possible problem with sudden shortening of very large files by an external process

2010-02-26 Thread Gary Bickford
I often misuse vim to view log files while debugging batch jobs. It is very handy for moving around in the file, viewing the colorized content and searching for relevant text. These log files can be from several thousand to millions of lines. Vim does a remarkably good job of handling these

Re: Vim plugin to maintain journal?

2010-01-22 Thread Gary Bickford
Another possible suggestion - use the docuwiki format, and save the file as .wiki. It's a simple format to use, and can be easily pushed onto the web using docuwiki. AFAI can tell the VIM wiki plugin doesn't have folding support however. -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist.

Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Bickford
There are some good ideas here, I'll check them out. I wonder though - the recovery file exists already (if the vim session has gone away). Does it contain the change history, or just the final state? If it contains the change history, then it seems that there might be a way to use that in the

Re: Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Bickford
I should mention, Im going to try Christian's plug-in. :) On Jan 19, 6:21 pm, Christian Brabandt cbli...@256bit.org wrote: On Mo, 18 Jan 2010, Christian Brabandt wrote: The amusing part was that you could watch as the editor replayed your actions at an accelerated speed.  I don't recall

Session or file activity transcript replay?

2010-01-18 Thread Gary Bickford
Has anyone built a session transcript plug-in for vim? I am aware of the macro capability, and the kill-ring plug in, and some other suggestions but I haven't seen anything quite like this: Back in the day, on the Perq workstation, the text editor had a very handy feature. It retained a