On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 08:23:00AM EDT, Benji Fisher wrote:
> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:50:08PM -0700, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> >
> > cga2000 wrote:
> >
> > > But I was not thinking of these tab stops..
> > > more in the line of typewriter stuff, I guess.
> >
> > Creating an imap involving the following
> > operations might do the job:
> >
> > "---set up the typewriter style tab-stops---
> > let twtabs=[3, 5, 10, 28, 40, 58]
> > "---then imap <tab> to
> > " something involving the following---
> > let idx=0
> > while (getpos('.')[2] >= twtabs[idx])
> > let idx += 1
> > endwhile
> > "---then something like---
> > cursor(0, twtabs[idx])
> > "---or---
> > normal (twtabs[idx] - getpos('.')[2])l
> >
> > --Suresh
>
> I already implemented that. See the VarTab() function in foo.vim
> (my file of example vim functions):
>
> http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=72
>
Thanks. Will play with that too.
I was wondering if another approach such as using a markup language
that supports tables might not be preferable in the long run. What I
mean by this is that it might be a little more difficult to start off
with but might provide more control and facilities and end up being a
more "portable" solution.
html would be an obvious candidate but I suppose that there are others
in the linux world?
Is there any way I can split the screen and have the source version of a
document written in a markup language in one window and the compiled
version in the other? With a simple command or key combo that I could
issue in the "source" window that would cause a refresh of what is
displayed in the other window..? Or is vim just not suited for this
kind of approach?
Thanks,
cga
