On Jul 3, 2006, at 8:17 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
I am pretty sure that I used to be able to create a macro (via
q) in the file browser in vim6. I occasionally found this
useful, e.g. when I needed to systematically delete
semi-random sets of files. Unfortunately, q appears to have a
different/new meaning in vim7. Is there any way to
re-establish q as a macro command in the file browser for
vim7?
I'm not sure if there's anything particularly associated with the
"file-browser" portion of vim7 vs other versions of vim, but in
your upgrade, you may now be sourcing mswin.vim
Check out your vimrc and see if you have a line similar to any of
the following:
source $RUNTIME/mswin.vim
runtime mswin.vim
source example_vimrc.vim
They're likely the culprit. Nuke the line (or comment it), and you
should be good to go. You wouldn't believe the number of times on
this list the answer is "oh, you're likely sourcing the mswin.vim
file...just get rid of it". Oh, the problems it causes...
But I'm not bitter or anything... ;)
-tim
I am actually on OS X, not windows, so that can't be the problem.
However, your comment may have pointed out an issue with my
terminology. When I referred to file-browser, I was referring to the
browser that appears when I use :Ex and the other similar commands.
