Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-24 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:59:42PM EST, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:08:26PM EST, Charles Campbell wrote: Would you try this with netrw? Since you seem to like tree mode, put let g:netrw_liststyle= 3 A couple more runs on my home directory this morning after adding the

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Sergey Khorev
Chris, I am still at version 7.1 but I don't suppose a more current version of Vim supports plugins or extensions written in a compiled language such as C, or even semi-compiled languages such as python et al... or that there are any plans to do so at some point in the future? Starting from

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Jon Trelfa
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick update to mention that I installed NERDTree, and as I suspected, when restoring a previous session, it comes up with an empty side bar. ... As an aside, this is a great plugin, bu I noted that on my

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Francisco Dibar
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jon Trelfa jtre...@gmail.com wrote: Back to the question, then... is there a better/faster way for me to move around and open files in the various directories without having to type :e ~/public_html/project_folder/system/application/controllers/home.php when I

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 06:20:02AM EST, Sergey Khorev wrote: Chris, I am still at version 7.1 but I don't suppose a more current version of Vim supports plugins or extensions written in a compiled language such as C, or even semi-compiled languages such as python et al... or that there

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 08:53:19AM EST, Jon Trelfa wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick update to mention that I installed NERDTree, and as I suspected, when restoring a previous session, it comes up with an empty side bar. ... As

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:45:35AM EST, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 06:20:02AM EST, Sergey Khorev wrote: Chris, I am still at version 7.1 but I don't suppose a more current version of Vim supports plugins or extensions written in a compiled language such as C, or even

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Chris! On Mi, 23 Dez 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Where slow is concerned, the feature might be that Bram does not favor the idea of turning vim into an IDE, or so I heard.. All the same, even if vimscript is not C, I am quite shocked at how long it takes to load a 100-file or so directory..

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:55:03PM EST, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Chris! On Mi, 23 Dez 2009, Chris Jones wrote: Where slow is concerned, the feature might be that Bram does not favor the idea of turning vim into an IDE, or so I heard.. All the same, even if vimscript is not C, I am

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Chris! On Mi, 23 Dez 2009, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:55:03PM EST, Christian Brabandt wrote: This sounds like something where you don't need to interact with the process while it's running. Wouldn't it be a case where it's better to use the usual batch tools such as

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:53:12PM EST, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Chris! On Mi, 23 Dez 2009, Chris Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:55:03PM EST, Christian Brabandt wrote: This sounds like something where you don't need to interact with the process while it's running. Wouldn't

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Charles Campbell
Chris Jones wrote: I tried it with a fairly large tree called ~/tarballs and it took over a minute, with Vim flying at 100% CPU. There was a message to the effect that it was indexing/caching the nodes or something. Now the weird thing is that in another test, my home directory, which contains

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:08:26PM EST, Charles Campbell wrote: Chris Jones wrote: Hello Charles, I tried it with a fairly large tree called ~/tarballs and it took over a minute, with Vim flying at 100% CPU. There was a message to the effect that it was indexing/caching the nodes or

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:08:26PM EST, Charles Campbell wrote: Chris Jones wrote: [..] So it looks as if there are glitches when it takes forever, and normal circumstances where it takes somwhere between 3-5 seconds to load a directory, why is too slow to my taste. I'll try to run

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-23 Thread Sergey Khorev
I take that to mean that C/C++ extensions are not an option. One obvious downside with general-purpose scripting languages is that you would need Python, etc. installed to use such plugins. Not a problem in my case, since I have admin authority to this machine, but are there other issues,

Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-22 Thread Jon Trelfa
I'm definitely in the newbie stage of learning VIM - so bear with me on my request... As of right now, this is how I launch gvim on my Ubuntu PC and start working: 1. Super+T (keyboard shortcut I mapped to start the program) 2. Alt+F10 - maximize the window 3. :nto - shortcut to open

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:53:08AM EST, Jon Trelfa wrote: I'm definitely in the newbie stage of learning VIM - so bear with me on my request... As of right now, this is how I launch gvim on my Ubuntu PC and start working: 1. Super+T (keyboard shortcut I mapped to start the program)

Re: Not necessarily a question - but need help nonetheless

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:33:55PM EST, Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:53:08AM EST, Jon Trelfa wrote: [..] I don't use NERDTree, so I can't promise it plays well with vim sessions. Just a quick update to mention that I installed NERDTree, and as I suspected, when restoring a