On 02/23/2011 04:14 PM, ZyX wrote:
I recently found that there exists `g:' (without any text after `:') variable
which is a dictionary that holds all other global variables, same for `b:', `t:'
and `w:' variables. Can anybody point me in which help topic they are described?
You can read about
On 02/23/2011 11:20 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
On 24/02/11 3:50 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
:%s only perform substitution with a file. Is there a command that can
perform substitution in all the files that are opened by a vim session?
Check out
:help :argdo
:help :bufdo
...remembering that vim will
On 02/24/2011 09:07 AM, David Kahn wrote:
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Christian Brabandtcbli...@256bit.orgwrote:
On Thu, February 24, 2011 1:03 pm, Tim Chase wrote:
On 02/23/2011 11:20 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
:help :argdo
:help :bufdo
...remembering that vim will complain if you try
On 02/26/2011 03:53 AM, Tong Zhang wrote:
How can I change my vim's fonts(CLI)?
CLI Vim depends on the font(s) of the containing console, so it
depends on the font you're using in cmd.exe/xterm/rxvt/Terminal/etc.
For GUI Vim, you can set 'guifont':
:set guifont=?
[snipping verbose,
On 02/28/2011 07:49 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
Suppose that I have a collection of editing commands such as
%g/pattern_a/
%g/pattern_b/
%g/pattern_c/
that find and list all the lines of a file that satisfy some patterns.
After I visually inspect a given list of lines,
On 03/02/2011 02:30 PM, Raleigh Rinehart wrote:
Now what I would like to do is to replace each occurrence of MODULEX in
file1 with the corresponding word in file 2.
By corresponding I mean if the lines (from file 1) and the words (from file
2) were both well ordered sets then the match is
On 03/02/2011 04:21 PM, raleighr3 wrote:
I understand what you want, file1.txt looks something like
...
Folder![CDATA[C:\work\sources\foo\bar\baz\MODULEX\lib]]/Folder
...
Folder![CDATA[C:\work\sources\foo\bar\baz\MODULEX\lib]]/Folder
...
and you have file2.txt which looks something like
...
On 03/04/2011 05:55 AM, jcordes wrote:
I would like to have a better understanding of the line
:%s@.*@:-/MODULEX/s//
I saw only *two* occurrences of the @ character -- where is
the third @? I think I am confused by the fact that this is
not a straightforward 'substitute' command -- at
On 03/06/2011 01:29 PM, Jean Johner wrote:
let foobar = test2.f
Using
echo foobar
results in test2.f (OK)
Now I want to open test2.f
:e foobar
opens a file foobar
:e 'foobar'
opens the file 'foobar'
What is the syntax to open test2.f using the foobar variable.
You have to build the string and
On 03/07/2011 10:11 PM, Colin Beighley wrote:
Oftentimes when I use gd to go to the definition of a
variable, function, etc I would like to return to the place in
the code I was at before doing that. Is there a hot sequence
for this? Essentially what I want is an undo gd.
In addition to
On 03/11/2011 04:26 AM, H Xu wrote:
Is it possible to reverse uppercase letter and lowercase
letter when Caps Lock is on? Sometimes normal mode commands
are uncomfortable to use when Caps Lock is on. When Caps Lock
is on, For example, Shift + I would lead to the effect of 'i',
which makes me
On 03/13/2011 06:05 AM, Yosi Izaq wrote:
','g/X/d
Is this the correct way or am I working too hard?
This is what I do, and I can't think of any more concise way to
write this -- when you're in visual mode and press the :, vim
automatically feeds the visual range so all you have to type (in
On 03/16/2011 06:02 AM, Hofmann, Joachim wrote:
gvim +?0 Datei(en) BefehlsausgabenVoll.log
When the pattern is not found:
BefehlsausgabenVoll.log 148L, 8098C
Error detected while processing command line:
E486: Pattern not found: 0 Datei(en)
Press ENTER or type command to continue
How can I
On 03/18/2011 11:27 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:
:try | /does_not_exist/ | catch /.*/ | endtry
Error detected while processing :
E486: Pattern not found: does_not_exist
You need to put the catch on a separate line, because when skipping
commands it will skip the line(s
On 03/20/2011 12:19 PM, sanjay ravat wrote:
I am relatively new to vim. I need to inspect log files that
run into thousands of lines. Each line starts with a
timestamp. How can I fold the logs based on timestamp?
It would help to have (1) an excerpt of the log-file (possibly
redacted, leaving
On 03/21/2011 01:43 PM, sanjay ravat wrote:
[2011-03-21T18:45:46.004-07:00] [Other info]... log message
[2011-03-21T18:45:46.008-07:00] [Other info]... log message
[2011-03-21T18:45:46.607-07:00] [Other info]... log message
Thanks for the example data and better description. After
On 03/22/2011 03:33 PM, Dennis Benzinger wrote:
Hi!
I have a log file with timestamps and messages:
01:00 x
02:00 y
03:00 z
To compare the time elapsed between two events I want to prefix each
line with the timestamp of the previous time. I tried to use
%s/^/\=matchstr(getline(line(.)-1),
On 03/21/2011 11:58 PM, c b wrote:
Hi Tom,
s/Tom/Tim/
:)
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Tim Chasev...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
On 03/21/2011 01:43 PM, sanjay ravat wrote:
[2011-03-21T18:45:46.004-07:00] [Other info]... log message
[2011-03-21T18:45:46.008-07:00] [Other info]... log
On 03/23/2011 10:05 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Tim Chase wrote:
set
foldexpr=(getline(v:lnum)[:19]==getline(v:lnum+1)[:19])?6:((getline(v:lnum)[:16]==getline(v:lnum+1)[:16])?'6':((getline(v:lnum)[:13]==getline(v:lnum+1)[:13])?'5':((getline(v:lnum)[:10]==getline(v:lnum+1
On 03/23/2011 11:24 PM, E wrote:
Can a macro be executed while in insert mode?
The short answer is yes, in insert-mode you can use control+O to
execute one normal-mode command (such as a macro) without leaving
insert-mode (capital-oh, not zero if your font doesn't
distinguish that clearly)
On 03/25/2011 01:31 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
I a function I a search (:/) at the last step.
:
But regardless how intense I define 'set hlsearch' --
when the function returns, the matches marked via hlsearch
are gone.
I'm not sure whether you do or don't want the highlighting, and
if so,
On 03/25/2011 02:41 PM, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
On Windows, after yanking a line, :echo @* shows the yanked
line. But on Unix, there doesn't seem to be anything in the *
register -- it is as though there is no * register at all!
Version of vim used on Fedora 14 was:
On 03/25/2011 02:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
After the funtino has returned control back to the user
the matched keywords should be highlighted as if
the user her-/himself did the search...
My second function worked for me to do what you describe:
If you want to have the pattern from
On 03/25/2011 03:17 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
I used
:/pattern
instead of
/pattern/
In a function, they should be the same. E.g:
function! Tim()
/pattern/
endfunction
and
function! Meino()
:/pattern/
endfunction!
should be exactly the same.
and I also add the
On 03/25/2011 09:37 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
possible to do two totally different searches in the function
and get highlighted the matches of *both* searches when the
function returns control to the user. Due to teh complexity of
the regular expressions of that matches it will be nearly
On 03/26/2011 04:56 AM, Sapfeer wrote:
So, I'm trying to define such command, here is it:
command! -range=% QuoteLinesAndCopy :line1,line2/^\s*$/d;s/^/ /
g;line1,line2y +
...but when I issue it I get the following error:
E488: Trailing characters: :1,30/^\s*$/d;s/^/ /g;1,30y +
I'm afraid
On 03/27/2011 02:24 PM, Matt Martini wrote:
How do I set up a mapping to make the currently selected text (visual
mode) get processed by an external command?
I have a bunch of scripts that do text processing (mostly perl and bash)
that I want to process the current buffer in vim.
To process
On 03/28/2011 08:11 AM, BPJ wrote:
How can I make
:!perl ...
use the perl symlinked at ~/bin/perl
rather than /usr/bin/perl without actually
having to type :!~/bin/perl every time?
What's your $PATH set to?
You can find out what your system thinks it's set to with
set PATH
at the
On 03/28/2011 01:33 PM, David Kahn wrote:
If I want to remove all contents of a line, I press 'd' twice.
But in most cases I want the line to still be there (meaning
the space, so after deleting I would have a blank line), so I
tend to find myself when deleting afterward replacing the line
(like
On 03/30/2011 07:45 PM, shuda Li wrote:
I try to map the Ctrl - End to move the cursor to the end of file:
mapC-End :$RC
However the line has no effect at all.
I checked
:mapC-End
and it returnsC-End mapped to :$RC
Depends on what your terminal is sending. I presume this is
(non-g)vim
On 03/31/2011 12:10 PM, Coiby wrote:
I want to increase the number in this format /ddd by one but also keep
/.
But the following command doesn't work:
$s/\/\([1-9]\+\)/\/\=submatch(1)-1)/g
Can anyone give a tip?
In addition to what ZyX's comments (particularly about the \=
needing to be at
On 03/31/2011 05:01 PM, carlosvillu wrote:
I came from Textmate and i try to created a map that i was so
useful for me. When i edit a file in insert mode, i want can
press shiftLeft /shiftRigth for select caracter by
caracter and shiftcmdLeftshiftcmdRight to select word
by word. Really I tried,
On 04/01/2011 07:01 AM, Coiby wrote:
I will appreciate it if you recommend some books on such topic.
There are several books[1] and websites[2] regarding regular
expressions. Popular books:
- Mastering Regular Expressions (published by O'Reilly)
- Regular Expression Cookbook (published by
On 04/01/2011 10:48 AM, Tim Gray wrote:
I'm a new user of vim and am currently evaluating it for my uses. I'm coming
from BBEdit. One of the features of BBEdit that I've found useful is the
'persistent include.'* It's mostly used for HTML. The idea behind it is that
you can specify a file in
On 04/02/2011 04:01 PM, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
I have some questions regarding some peculiar behavior in my Vim 7.3.
Some of these might have been there from previous versions, while some
seems to have been introduced in the new version. Some might also come
from some plugins I have installed,
On 04/03/2011 12:46 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
I've just had some very frustrating minutes trying to figure out why
searching with a pattern which I felt should work wasn't actually
working. After trying this and that I decided eventually to look up
\? in the help file and saw that it's not
On 04/04/2011 01:58 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
In other words, these lines match the regex:
/^PP \d\+,\d\+/
I wanted to decrement the second number in each pair by 120
To simplify Venu's solution:
:%s/^PP \d\+,\zs\d\+/\=submatch(0)-120/g
-tim
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On 04/06/2011 11:00 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
Simply assign your search string directly to the search-register, e.g.
if you have your search string in the Clipboard, use:
:let @/=@+
and press n to jump to the next occurence.
Of course you can also assign it manually:
:let
On 04/06/2011 11:34 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
*g*, when searching backwards, I always get confused, whether
to use n/N for my desired direction. Is 'n' keeping the
direction or searching forward? And if 'N' reverses the
direction and ? also reverses the direction this reverses
twice? That is
On 04/06/2011 01:51 PM, googler wrote:
How do I search for the words containing the string CKINV, but
which do not start with G8S_ ? For example, I would be
interested in the string xyz_CKINVX8 but not G8S_CKINVX3.
/\\%(G8S_\)\@!\w*CKINV
-tim
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On 04/07/2011 10:04 AM, wxuyec wrote:
while it works for gvim and the command mode.
after I press /, when I want to use Up key to
go through the searching history, I get a character
A inserted.
In addition to Tony's good advice, it would also be worthwhile to
check that (1) you've got a build
On 04/07/2011 08:05 PM, Tim Gray wrote:
I feel like to get the most out of it you need to a) put the
time in to learn it and b) put the time in *configuring* to
make it work for you.
While I certainly agree with (a), I'm at the other end of the
spectrum on (b). One of the things I like most
On 04/08/2011 09:30 AM, Tim Gray wrote:
Is there really no way for Vim to soft wrap at a specified
column? I know I can turn on hard wrapping or resize the
window. Unfortunately, when you resize the window to
something that makes really long lines more readable (like
80-90 columns), as soon as
On 04/08/2011 10:22 AM, Ben Fritz wrote:
1. Text objects. Things like cap (change a paragraph) and
dis (delete a sentence) would be amazing for writing prose.
As a matter of fact, almost *all* my usage of the is and as
text objects are used when editing prose. They don't serve much
purpose
On 04/08/2011 09:51 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:20 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/1999/unix_editor.html
Thanks, Tim. The note on this link recommends O'Reilly's book
on Vi and when you go to the O'Reilly pages linked in it their
are rave comments
On 04/08/2011 04:57 PM, wxuyec wrote:
I checked what you suggested.
1) The return for :echo has('cmdline_hist') is 1.
2) the answers to :set cp? history? are
nocompatible
history=50
it seems that the problem doesn't come from
these issues. and the Ctrl-p and Ctrl-n work.
Okay, that's good and
On 04/08/2011 08:43 PM, Eric Weir wrote:
Well, I found time to work through the vim tutor exercise.
Pretty basic. Not sure I remember what I learned -- I liked
that it said don't try to memorize, to learn by doing
Nothing like practice to burn it in :) As mentioned in a
previous email, I
On 04/09/2011 12:11 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
How can you insert the output of an Ex command into the buffer
at the place where the cursor is ? Say for example in the 1st
line here I want to insert right after you the output of
:chdir .So I place the cursor after you and then do what ?
A
On 04/10/2011 05:27 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
I am getting confused trying to understand vim line number addressing
rules, and predicting accurately how commands will be parsed.
Why is .+1 different from . + 1 and .-1 different from . - 1
For illustration compare (in some test file):
On 04/10/2011 05:39 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
On Apr 9, 6:29 pm, Tim Chasev...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
On 04/09/2011 12:11 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
How can you insert the output of an Ex command into the
buffer at the place where the cursor is?
1) use :redir to a register and paste
On 04/11/2011 01:11 AM, eNG1Ne wrote:
Quibbles? can't find a run to end of file for macros
Would
:,$norm @a
work for you? (obviously assuming that your macro was recorded
into register a) Alternatively, if your macro processes more
than one line at a time, you could tweak it to
On 04/11/2011 03:05 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, howard Schwartz wrote:
More seriously, I trying to do a substitute and replace on lines like this:
DEBIT,03/25/2011,ATT First Payment PPD ID:
4031004,-42.34
I want to replace it with a line like
On 04/13/2011 08:52 AM, Jürgen Krämer wrote:
How can you insert the output of an Ex command into the
buffer at the place where the cursor is?
1) use :redir to a register and paste the register
contents:
Strange that there isn't a simpler method built-in.
I totally agree with you. Would
On 04/13/2011 01:41 PM, Scottb wrote:
Hi all, I'm working with a lot of PDF lately and I'm looking
for a way to map a key combination that will allow me to
follow object references. Basically that would mean look at
the object ref number that is under the cursor right now and
find a pattern like
On 04/13/2011 04:27 PM, Scottb wrote:
The reference 19 0 R points to a PDF object declaration somewhere in
the file like 19 0 obj. So, right now (thanks to your help) I can
put my cursor over the 19 in the /Outlines reference value, hit F4
and navigate directly to the 19 0 obj. Now... it would
On 04/13/2011 05:17 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Scottb wrote:
I suppose that would mean [...] \d+\s\d+\sR [...]
BTW... just noticing that characters classes (like \d for digits)
don't seem to work in regular Vim / searches, is that really the
case?
It's that you need
On 04/13/2011 06:53 PM, jcordes wrote:
On Apr 13, 8:46 pm, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
jcordesjohncor...@gmail.com [11-04-14 01:32]:
2011Spring.pdf 10/Apr/2011 at 7:50:40 PM 76.11.9.6
2011Spring.pdf 10/Apr/2011 at 8:10:14 PM 24.222.177.150
2011Spring.pdf 11/Apr/2011 at 7:21:10 PM
On 04/13/2011 07:15 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
Consider the analogous situation with shell programming:
Ok , with more thought I see that it is a problem. Consider
Vsystem(command1 | redir @a | echom 'abc' | redir END | command2)
The return value of Vsystem() should include the output of
On 04/13/2011 04:03 PM, Richard Livornese wrote:
I'm trying to figure out how the correct command to search for a string and have
the cursor positioned at the end(or beginning) of that string.
From the documentation, it seems to me this should work:
/string/e
But when I try that I get the
On 04/14/2011 07:55 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
I did :set linebreak in a file. I see that it isn't retained
when I save, close, and then reopen a file. How do I make this
default?
As others have mentioned, put
set linebreak
in your ~/.vimrc which, can be done from the command-prompt with
echo
On 04/14/2011 03:06 PM, lazloman wrote:
I'd like for vim to highlight the match when I type an. I'm aware
of :set showmatch and matchtime, but these don't highlight the angle
brackets. Will I have to use %? I prefer showmatch since it doesn't
require any additional input from me, so if there is
On 04/15/2011 04:35 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Tim, have you tried using /\v to start all regexes in Vim?
I know about it, but don't think to use it often because by the
time I think grr, I should have used \v, I've got a
sufficiently-complex regex that I'd have to go back and modify it
On 04/15/2011 09:50 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
but f/F/t/T are eluding me at the moment. I can't tell what
they do.
They allow you to jump to (f/F) or one-character-shy-of (t/T) the
Nth (default N=1) match of the subsequent letter. So in this
paragraph, if I'm at the beginning (on the T in They),
On 04/18/2011 10:35 PM, googler wrote:
:%s/${eco_prefix}_net_\(\d\d\d\) -new_cell_name
${eco_prefix}_\zs\d\d\d/\1
This is what I actually used after posting the question. But I was
wondering if there is a better way. In this case, I had already
changed the first numbers manually, so I could
On 04/20/2011 01:50 AM, Mathew Brown wrote:
Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try and hopefully can retrieve the file
again :)
$ for key in $(cat keys); do vim blowfish.txt --cmd set key=$key\
-c :set key= | saveas $key | q; done
Just as a caveat, this will expose your passwords in the
On 04/20/2011 02:08 PM, niva wrote:
Hi,
I am writing a script and have to detect some features of the opened
file.
my vimscript contains a recursive conditional blocks
if cond1
else
if cond2
if condN etc...
else
endif
endif
I would like to replace that by an object
On 04/20/2011 06:15 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
let conditions = [['a=7','echo 7'],['a=8','echo 8']]
for [c,action] in conditions
exec 'let c_result = '.action
if c_result
exec action
I think, to mimic the OP's structure, you need a break in here
endif
unlet c, c_result, action
On 04/20/2011 04:12 PM, Adam Monsen wrote:
Anyone handy with editing help files? I'm wondering how to align a
title and tag, ala
SPONSOR VIM DEVELOPMENT *sponsor*
where the title is left-aligned and the tag right-aligned, on the
same line.
While I
On 04/21/2011 07:37 AM, Jean-Rene David wrote:
Currently my workflow replacing a visual selection is like this:
1. Go to Visual mode
2. Select text
3. y'ank
4. :%s/c-r*/foo/g
How about:
1. go to visual mode
2. select text
3. press c
This only does the match under the cursor
On 04/23/2011 11:54 AM, Bee wrote:
To edit the alternate file, is there any difference between these:
nnoremap ,g :e!#cr
nnoremap ,g :b!#cr
While there may be other differences, you can edit unnamed
buffers with :b!# while :e!# requires that the file exist.
Additionally, if the file
On 04/27/2011 01:59 PM, ZyX wrote:
Normally you do the following: create a regular expression
that is able to find all numbers and then write additional
code which will filter the results of the first search so that
only numbers divisible by 7 are left.
I must say that there are times I've
Not sure if this is an old-version-of-vim thing, or if it's just
a peculiar interaction. Scenario: I had a bunch of vim-windows
open on various files and wanted to close those that contained a
given pattern (in the example below, using @ as my pattern to
close windows with email addresses in
On 04/28/2011 12:52 PM, Jean-Rene David wrote:
Lately I've been using the Ex commands :d, :t, :m to shuffle
text around while editing.
[snip]
I wonder why my cursors is *moved* to line 150 after the
command.
I was wondering if others had thoughts on this behavior. Is
there a use of them where
On 04/28/2011 01:16 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
Fortunately, my previous location is just a control+O away for when I
want to be at the source location instead of the destination location.
This doesn't work for me.
Hmm...I was fairly certain that I used this. It must have just
been
On 04/28/2011 01:15 PM, Jean-Rene David wrote:
* Tim Chase [2011.04.28 14:00]:
[...]
:windo g/pattern/q
which did as I expected, but had the odd side effect of printing
misleading messages about additional/fewer lines:
193 more lines
E486: Pattern not found: @
86 fewer lines
16
On 04/29/2011 04:18 AM, sinbad wrote:
searching for ^[[K^[[?1l^[ using / works.
but when i use the same string in :%s, it says
the pattern is not found. how to make it recongnize
as / does. or is there any way to automatically
convert the string to equivalent regexp that :%s
understands.
While
On 04/28/2011 09:49 PM, Jean-Rene David wrote:
* Tim Chase [2011.04.28 14:40]:
Because each of your files have the same number of lines, it doesn't
register a change. For a full example:
bash$ cd ~/tmp; mkdir moreless; cd moreless
bash$ for i in 10 20 30 40 50; do seq $i ${i}.txt ; done
On 04/29/2011 09:26 AM, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
There's a VimResized event that you can use with autocommands. I'd try
something like this (untested):
autocmd VimResized * normal!C-W=
There's a :wincmd command, so you should be able to just do
autocmd VimResized * wincmd =
-tim
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On 04/29/2011 11:55 AM, Andrew Long wrote:
I'm writing a script where I want to capitalise the first
letter of a word. I know hat 'toupper' will change
lower-to-upper case on the whole string, like \U in a :s
command, but is there an equivalent of \u (convert the initial
character only?)
I
On 04/29/2011 03:47 PM, Reckoner wrote:
When editing multiple buffers, I do :bnext to get to the next buffer.
Unfortunately, when I return to that buffer or one of the previously
edited buffers, I can no longer undo the changes in the
corresponding buffer.
Is there a way to set it up so that
On 04/29/2011 03:59 PM, cyboman wrote:
does anybody know if there is a way to capture the result of a global
search in vim.
for example in perl i can do the following
string =~ /(pattern1)someword/i
and $1 will contain patter1.
is something like this possible in vim scripting?
You don't
On 04/29/2011 12:48 PM, Kevin Steinhardt wrote:
F11 would do `set spelllang=en_gb` then `set spell`
F12 would do `set spelllang=nl` then `set spell` also
For normal-mode, it's a pretty straight-forward
:nnoremap f11 :set spellang=eng_gb spellcr
:nnoremap f12 :set spelllang=nl
On 04/30/2011 10:39 AM, Bee wrote:
On Apr 29, 4:47 pm, John Beckettjohnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote:
Tim Chase wrote:
let s=substitute(s, '\w\+', '\u\1', 'g')
The above is intended to change each word in s, making the first
letter uppercase and not changing the rest.
The search pattern
On 04/30/2011 05:33 PM, reckoner wrote:
On 4/29/2011 1:51 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 04/29/2011 03:47 PM, Reckoner wrote:
When editing multiple buffers, I do :bnext to get to the
next buffer. Unfortunately, when I return to that buffer
or one of the previously edited buffers, I can no longer
undo
On 05/03/2011 07:40 PM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
- Has anybody else experienced anything like this?
I can't say I've encountered anything of the like.
- Any ideas what might cause it?
Your list of plugins, vimrc, and perhaps germane modelines might
be worth including. It might also be helpful
On 05/03/2011 09:02 AM, octopusgrabbus wrote:
I am using gVim and editing a file using e ftp://user@host//full-path-to-file.
Each line in the file has its characters reversed. Yet, if I copy
those lines and try to paste them here, they are in normal reading
order. What setting do I need to
On 05/05/2011 12:09 PM, Jean-Rene David wrote:
You seem to use 'shell' and 'terminal' interchangeably. They
are not the same thing. 'tcsh' and 'bash' are shells, not
terminals.
It doesn't matter *how* you start gvim. You will always get a
limited functionality terminal from it.
You can hack
On 05/06/2011 05:27 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
I've been slow to realise that Vim users don't necessarily use
a variety of posix compliant applications, and so haven't
experienced the great productivity benefit of being able to
move between them _without_ trial and error, or resort to
On 05/10/2011 11:51 AM, cyboman wrote:
does anybody know how to do search of lines that don't contain a
pattern:
/pattern
searches for a occurrence of a pattern, but i need a way to search for
lines that don't have a pattern.
You can use
/^\%(\%(pattern\)\@!.\)*$
or if you're performing
On 05/11/2011 04:57 AM, woodygar wrote:
Hi just stated to use vim as a python ide -
how to remove numbers from .txt but leave them on for .py .pyw files
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but you can start vim with
prompt vim *.txt
and then execute
:set hidden
:argdo :%s/\d\+//g
On 05/12/2011 08:05 AM, Kevin Steinhardt wrote:
Forgive my ignorance once more, but is there a way to tell vim that
I'd only like it to expand an abbreviation keyword if the file type
is .htm, .html or .mkd? I'd like to have some abbreviations for left
and right single 'book quotes' and I though
On 05/13/2011 11:16 AM, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
`%` is a special address range that means do this for all
lines in the buffer. So `:%retab` means retab the entire
buffer. For `:retab` in particular, though, the default is to
act on the entire buffer, so the `%` is redundant. Many
commands only
On 05/18/2011 03:32 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
Here's a simple solution for .vimrc that might work:
command! -nargs=1 -bang Edit call FileAndLine(e,bang,f-args)
command! -nargs=1 -bang Split call FileAndLine(sp,bang,f-args)
function! FileAndLine(cmd,bang,arg)
let
On 05/22/2011 05:48 PM, hsitz wrote:
In this Vim installation the expression 'xxx' '' evaluates to 0
(false) while in all other Vims I've seen the expression evaluates (as
it should) to 1 (true).
I confirm that it should eval to 1.
Is there some Vim setting (encoding?) that might have
On May 23, 10:25 pm, Yongwei Wuwuyong...@gmail.com wrote:
Probably related to my recent upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit, I have
found that very often there are residual characters left in the GVim
window, where a space or another character should be displayed. It
occurs apparently when I scroll very
On 05/26/2011 10:32 AM, Denzel Li wrote:
I have been using vim for years and I love it. My problem is:
it seems that my vim is using an old _vimrc file hidden
somewhere rather than the one in the vim directory.
The first thing to check would be the output of
:scriptnames
to see what Vim
On 05/28/2011 11:01 PM, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
On 29/05/11 05:11, Antonio Recio wrote:
dab it is useful to remove parentheses and content when
cursor is over, I think. But I want to delete all the
parentheses and the inside the parentheses with an unique
commmand.
IIUC, when used with a count
On 05/29/2011 06:43 PM, Beren Sanders wrote:
Is there an easy standard way to make accented characters match searches for
their normal counterparts?
For example, I obtain é by typing CTRL-k ' e and I would like to set
it up so that searching for Ajoute will match both Ajoute and Ajouté.
It
On 05/29/2011 06:43 PM, Beren Sanders wrote:
For example, I obtain é by typing CTRL-k ' e and I would
like to set it up so that searching for Ajoute will match
both Ajoute and Ajouté.
My previous example finds *all* (Latin1) accented variants such
as e, é, è, ë, ė, ê, etc. If you JUST want
On 05/31/2011 08:33 AM, Steven Lee wrote:
I attempt to write a function implementing insert new line which
filled consecutive '=' :
How can I correct above scripts?
While it diverges from your original script, I'd go for something
more readable like:
:nnoremap f4 :put=repeat('-',len)cr
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