Re: regex @vim, negating a group
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:56:41AM +0300, Yakov Lerner wrote: > 3) The 'old' way. That's what I'd use before the \@ stuff to match > words not ending with 'ion': > >/\<\(\w*[^n]\|\w*[^o]n\|\w*[^i]on\)\> Not much fun if you want to match all words not ending in "ification". :-) This is where negative lookahead and negative lookbehind really come into their own. -- Matthew Winn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: trap changes in 'modified' state
I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the tabline is triggered on the 'modified' setting. Just for the helluvit, I added pre- and post-proc function hooks to TabLineSet.vim. You can also add a check inside a CursorMoved[I} autocommand, which might have a little more overhead, but maybe not noticeable. In either case, my idea would be to set up a status dict: let s:modified_table = {} function! Tst_postproc_modified( tabline ) let updated = [] for bufnr in range( 1, bufnr("$") ) if !bufexists( bufnr ) | continue | endif let modded = getbufvar( bufnr, '&modified' ) if !has_key( s:modified_table, bufnr ) let s:modified_table[ bufnr ] = modded endif if s:modified_table[ bufnr ] != modded let s:modified_table[ bufnr ] = modded call add( updated, [ bufnr, modded ] ) endif endfor for elem in updated let bufnr = elem[0] let modded = elem[1] echomsg 'bufnr#' . bufnr . ', ' . bufname( bufnr ) . ' is now ' . ( modded ? '' : 'no' ) . 'modified' endfor " call somefunction( updated ) endfunction On 5/3/06, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to trap changes in the value of 'modified' (execute my commands when first change is done to the buffer, and when undo reverts buffer to unmodified state). How can I achieve this ? Note that this is not necessarity connected to Insert mode. Buffer can easily become modified without entering insert mode. Yakov
Re: trap changes in 'modified' state
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Eric Arnold wrote: On 5/3/06, Yakov Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to trap changes in the value of 'modified' (execute my commands when first change is done to the buffer, and when undo reverts buffer to unmodified state). How can I achieve this ? Note that this is not necessarity connected to Insert mode. Buffer can easily become modified without entering insert mode. Yakov I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the tabline is triggered on the 'modified' setting. [snip] You can also use the statusline. A simple test: fun Test() return &modified endf :set laststatus=2 statusline=%{Test()} HTH :) -- Gerald
Re: ^M problems with migrating VIM from WinXP to Linux
As for nulls as line breaks, you're not out of the woods yet. Try: :let @a='[EMAIL PROTECTED]@c' which should set @a to 'a<00>b<00>c'. Now put reg a, "apinto a buffer. The nulls will be treated as newlines. Now yank back all the lines into reg b, and try :echo strtrans(@b)
Getting mappings working again on Linux machine
Hi, On my WinXP machine in gvim 6.3.0 my mapping works On my Linux machine it partly works. One of the things that doesn't work is the windows behaviour. Like CTRL-C, CTRL-V , CTRL-X, ect But also my own mappings work partly. For example; i have a mapping like this which works on WinXP noremap b inoremap noremap w inoremap But under Linux it doesn't b and w itself does work. Are C-Left and C-right special keys under Linux? Best Regards Eric _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: Getting mappings working again on Linux machine
On 5/4/06, Eric Leenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On my WinXP machine in gvim 6.3.0 my mapping works On my Linux machine it partly works. One of the things that doesn't work is the windows behaviour. Like CTRL-C, CTRL-V , CTRL-X, ect But also my own mappings work partly. For example; i have a mapping like this which works on WinXP noremap b inoremap noremap w inoremap But under Linux it doesn't b and w itself does work. Are C-Left and C-right special keys under Linux? :behaviour mswin -- Regards, EddyP = "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
Re: Getting mappings working again on Linux machine
On 5/4/06, Eddy Petrişor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/4/06, Eric Leenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On my WinXP machine in gvim 6.3.0 my mapping works > On my Linux machine it partly works. > > One of the things that doesn't work is the windows behaviour. > Like CTRL-C, CTRL-V , CTRL-X, ect > > But also my own mappings work partly. > For example; i have a mapping like this which works on WinXP > > noremap b > inoremap > > noremap w > inoremap > > But under Linux it doesn't > b and w itself does work. > Are C-Left and C-right special keys under Linux? :behaviour mswin err, :behave mswin and load the mswin.vim script -- Regards, EddyP = "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
Re: Getting mappings working again on Linux machine
Hi! --- Eric Leenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my WinXP machine in gvim 6.3.0 my mapping works > On my Linux machine it partly works. > > One of the things that doesn't work is the windows behaviour. > Like CTRL-C, CTRL-V , CTRL-X, ect Just add source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim Best wishes, Georg ___ Too much spam in your inbox? Yahoo! Mail gives you the best spam protection for FREE! http://uk.mail.yahoo.com
scripted :isearch?
Is there a script function version of :isearch (akin to taglist)? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit
Re: scripted :isearch?
On 5/4/06, Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a script function version of :isearch (akin to taglist)? I don't know about builtin function. But it's possible to write such a function by redirecting the output of :ilist. Do you mean function a-la :ilist that returns list of matches instead of printing them on the screen ? Yakov
GVim Win32 - mouse cursor
Just a minor bug. It may not be fixable I am not sure. But I run GVim with 'set mouse=' (i.e. mouse completely disabled). However, if the mouse hovers over the statusline of a split window it still changes to the <--> resize cursor. As I said it is a very minor thing but thought I would mention it. Regards, Dominic
Re: GVim Win32 - mouse cursor
Dominic Evans wrote: > Just a minor bug. It may not be fixable I am not sure. But I run GVim > with 'set mouse=' (i.e. mouse completely disabled). However, if the > mouse hovers over the statusline of a split window it still changes to > the <--> resize cursor. > > As I said it is a very minor thing but thought I would mention it. Also happens for GTK on Unix. I'll put it on my todo list. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 21. Your dog has its own home page. /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ ///sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org/// \\\help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org///
Re: scripted :isearch?
Around about 04/05/06 10:07, Yakov Lerner typed ... Do you mean function a-la :ilist that returns list of matches instead of printing them on the screen ? Actually, I finally sussed how ballooneval works and I thought that it might be cool to show the '[i' output there. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rm -f .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l .signature ls: .signature: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# exit
File Extenstions
Folks, I am using gvim and when I edit a file it makes a copy of the file on my disk with a ~ appendend to the new file created. How can I switch this off as I do not want this file being created. I assume that is this some kind of back up copy of the file. Thanks in advance, Adrian.
Re: File Extenstions
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 14:36 +0100, Adrian Walls wrote: > Folks, > > I am using gvim and when I edit a file it makes a copy of the file on my > disk with a ~ appendend to the new file created. How can I switch this > off as I do not want this file being created. I assume that is this > some kind of back up copy of the file. > > Thanks in advance, > Adrian. If you don't want to make this copies at all: :set nobackup nowritebackup If you want to delete theese files after they are written to disk succesfully: :set nobackup writebackup
Re: File Extenstions
On 5/4/06, Adrian Walls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using gvim and when I edit a file it makes a copy of the file on my disk with a ~ appendend to the new file created. How can I switch this off as I do not want this file being created. I assume that is this some kind of back up copy of the file. :set nobackup Yakov
Re: deleting repeated blocks of text
Hey! Thanks! This worked out perfectly Now I have another question to you... The final file, which I got thanks to the help of all of you, is to be embedded into another web page... Which command should I add in the script to tell vi to embed it in the correct place? At the moment I do it by telling vi something like "go to line XXX, delete everything, insert text": :386,$d o :r /tmp/arXiV_2.txt :w! ~pau/WWW/arXiV.html But the inconvinient is that I have to modify the vim script whenever I add something to the web page, the number line 386 is wrong... and it is very tedious The place of the web page to embed it looks like this (without blank lines) : Between and - . . . . http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/0605080";> astro-ph/0605080 Títol/Title: Populating the Galaxy with low-mass X-ray binaries Autors/Authors: Paul D. Kiel, Jarrod R. Hurley Comentaris/Comments: 17 pages and 9 figures; accepted by MNRAS We perform binary population synthesis calculations to investigate the incidence of low-mass X-ray binaries and their birth rate in the Galaxy. We use a binary evolution algorithm that models all the relevant processes including tidal circularization and synchronization. Parameters in the evolution algorithm that are uncertain and may affect X-ray binary formation are allowed to vary during the investigation. We agree with previous studies that under standard assumptions of binary evolution the formation rate and number of black-hole low-mass X-ray binaries predicted by the model are more than an order of magnitude less than what is indicated by observations. We find that the common-envelope process cannot be manipulated to produce significant numbers of black-hole low-mass X-ray binaries. However, by simply reducing the mass-loss rate from helium stars adopted in the standard model, to a rate that agrees with the latest data, we produce a good match to the observations. Including low-mass X-ray binaries that evolve from intermediate-mass systems also leads to favourable results. We stress that constraints on the X-ray binary population provided by observations are used here merely as a guide as surveys suffer from incompleteness and much uncertainty is involved in the interpretation of results. http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/0605093";> astro-ph/0605093 Títol/Title: Toroidal LNRF-velocity profiles in thick accretion discs orbiting rapidly rotating Kerr black holes Autors/Authors: Zdenek Stuchlik, Petr Slany, Gabriel Torok Comentaris/Comments: Updated version of the Section talk at Albert Einstein Century International Conference at Palais de l'Unesco, Paris, France, 18-23 July, 2005; to appear in the Proceedings; AIP style files included; 8 pages We show that in the equatorial plane of marginally stable thick discs (with uniformly distributed specific angular momentum the orbital velocity relative to the locally non-rotating frames (LNRF) has a positive radial gradient in the vicinity of black holes with spin a>0.99979. The change of sign of the velocity gradient occurs just above the center of the thick toroidal discs, in the region where stable circular geodesics of the Kerr spacetime are allowed. The global character of the phenomenon is given in terms of topology changes of the von Zeipel surfaces (equivalent to the equivelocity surfaces in the tori with constant specific angular momentum distribution). Toroidal von Zeipel surfaces exist around the circle corresponding to the minimum of the equatorial LNRF velocity profile, indicating a possibility of development of some vertical instabilities in those parts of marginally stable tori with positive gradient of the LNRF velocity. Eventual oscillatory frequencies connected with the phenomenon are given in a coordinate-independent form. http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/astro-ph/0605094";> astro-ph/0605094 Títol/Title: Basic properties of toroidal structures in Kerr--de Sitter backgrounds Autors/Authors: Zdenek Stuchlik, Petr Slany Comentaris/Comments: Updated version of the Section talk at Albert Einstein Century International Conference at Palais de l'Unesco, Paris, France, 18-23 July, 2005; to appear in the Proceedings; AIP style files included; 8 pages Perfect fluid tori with uniform distribution of the specific angular momentum o
Re: deleting repeated blocks of text
Which command should I add in the script to tell vi to embed it in the correct place? At the moment I do it by telling vi something like "go to line XXX, delete everything, insert text": :386,$d o :r /tmp/arXiV_2.txt :w! ~pau/WWW/arXiV.html But the inconvinient is that I have to modify the vim script whenever I add something to the web page, the number line 386 is wrong... and it is very tedious Well, rather than a fixed line number, you can have some unique token in your file. E.g., you can have a unique comment to mark the start of the content...something like Then, instead of ":386,$d", you can do :/CONTENT GOES HERE/+,$d That finds the line containing that text ("/CONTENT GOES HERE/"), and then deletes ("d") from the following line ("+") to the end of the file ("$"). More details can be found at :help :range HTH, -tim
Re: hiding lines
:v (and :g) made my day..! Yes, I use this a lot if I just want to filter out a set of lines, or see only lines containing some text (like the old XEDIT command). But what I'd really like to to is continue editing in this view and not lose all the hidden lines, more like folding. I expect folding can do this, but I've never gotten it to work and it seems pretty cumbersome. I'm looking for a simple solution involving maybe a couple of command I can make a map for. I guess I'm looking for a g or v command that folds the lines instead of actually deleting them. Thanks, Jack
lines folding by pattern ; was Re: hiding lines
On 5/4/06, Jack Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :v (and :g) made my day..! Yes, I use this a lot if I just want to filter out a set of lines, or see only lines containing some text (like the old XEDIT command). But what I'd really like to to is continue editing in this view and not lose all the hidden lines, more like folding. I expect folding can do this, but I've never gotten it to work and it seems pretty cumbersome. I'm looking for a simple solution involving maybe a couple of command I can make a map for. I guess I'm looking for a g or v command that folds the lines instead of actually deleting them. I guess the mappings below are simple enough. If you prefer to keep it to just couple of lines, you can remove mapping for and whole function TogglePatternBasedFolding(). What remains is just 3 lines (maps for f2, f3, and f3). But I find tri-state toggle (f5) also useful. " Simple pattern-based folding. " How to use: (1) perform searh (so that vim remebers search pattern), " (2) press f2, f3 f4, or press f5 repeatedly. " " F2 - fold lines that match current-search-pattern (cf :v//p) " F3 - fold lines that do not match current-search-pattern (cf :g//p) " F4 - open all folds " F5 - tri-state toggle between f2-f3-f4 map :set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~@/ foldmethod=expr foldenablezM map :set foldexpr=!(getline(v:lnum)=~@/) foldmethod=expr foldenablezM map :set nofoldenable map :call TogglePatternBasedFolding() function! TogglePatternBasedFolding() if &foldenable && &foldmethod=='expr' && &foldexpr[0] == '!' :set nofoldenable | redraw | echo "all folds opened" elseif &foldenable && &foldmethod=='expr' && &foldexpr[0] == 'g' :set foldexpr=!(getline(v:lnum)=~@/) foldmethod=expr foldenable normal zM redraw | echo "lines not matching /".@/."/ folded" else " &foldenable && &foldmethod=='expr' && &foldexpr[0] == 'g' :set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~@/ foldmethod=expr foldenable normal zM redraw | echo "lines matching /".@/."/ folded" endif endfun Yakov
Re: hiding lines
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Jack Donohue wrote: :v (and :g) made my day..! Yes, I use this a lot if I just want to filter out a set of lines, or see only lines containing some text (like the old XEDIT command). But what I'd really like to to is continue editing in this view and not lose all the hidden lines, more like folding. I expect folding can do this, but I've never gotten it to work and it seems pretty cumbersome. I'm looking for a simple solution involving maybe a couple of command I can make a map for. I guess I'm looking for a g or v command that folds the lines instead of actually deleting them. Perhaps this would do: :set foldenable foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~@/ To fold consecutive lines that start with the word "fold", first search /^fold or :let @/ = "^fold" Then do :set foldmethod=expr foldlevel=0 to fold every search match. HTH. -- Gerald
RE: hiding lines
Jack Donohue wrote: >> :v (and :g) made my day..! > > Yes, I use this a lot if I just want to filter out a set of > lines, or see only lines containing some text (like the old > XEDIT command). But what I'd really like to to is continue > editing in this view and not lose all the hidden lines, more > like folding. I expect folding can do this, but I've never > gotten it to work and it seems pretty cumbersome. I'm looking > for a simple solution involving maybe a couple of command I can > make a map for. > > I guess I'm looking for a g or v command that folds the lines > instead of actually deleting them. The original post specifically asked for a non-fold based solution to "hiding lines". The first step toward finding a non-"cumbersome" solution that can be mapped and which results in folding away certain lines is to define what needs to be hidden (with everything else displayed or what needs to be displayed with everything else hidden). --Suresh
Re: deleting repeated blocks of text
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Tim Chase wrote: Which command should I add in the script to tell vi to embed it in the correct place? At the moment I do it by telling vi something like "go to line XXX, delete everything, insert text": :386,$d o :r /tmp/arXiV_2.txt :w! ~pau/WWW/arXiV.html But the inconvinient is that I have to modify the vim script whenever I add something to the web page, the number line 386 is wrong... and it is very tedious Well, rather than a fixed line number, you can have some unique token in your file. E.g., you can have a unique comment to mark the start of the content...something like Then, instead of ":386,$d", you can do :/CONTENT GOES HERE/+,$d That finds the line containing that text ("/CONTENT GOES HERE/"), and then deletes ("d") from the following line ("+") to the end of the file ("$"). [snip] Yes, Tim has explained everything. In the OP's case, "CONTENT GOES HERE" is "". The OP can also shorten :d and :r to ://+,$!cat /tmp/arXiV_2.txt or for a Windows system ://+,$!type /tmp/arXiV_2.txt -- Gerald
Re: scripted :isearch?
On Thu, 4 May 2006, Neil Bird wrote: Around about 04/05/06 10:07, Yakov Lerner typed ... Do you mean function a-la :ilist that returns list of matches instead of printing them on the screen ? Actually, I finally sussed how ballooneval works and I thought that it might be cool to show the '[i' output there. It would be cool to show the "[I" output in a balloon. A first attempt: fun! Test() redir => output silent! exe "ilist! /".v:beval_text."/" redir END return output endf :set ballooneval balloonexpr=Test() -- Gerald
Re: hiding lines
On 2006-05-04, Jack Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > :v (and :g) made my day..! > > Yes, I use this a lot if I just want to filter out a set of lines, or see > only lines containing some text (like the old XEDIT command). But what I'd > really like to to is continue editing in this view and not lose all the > hidden lines, more like folding. I expect folding can do this, but I've > never gotten it to work and it seems pretty cumbersome. I'm looking for a > simple solution involving maybe a couple of command I can make a map for. > > I guess I'm looking for a g or v command that folds the lines instead of > actually deleting them. The basic technique of using folding for this is this: set foldmethod=expr set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~'text to be folded' To close all the folds, you can set foldlevel=0 but I usually use zM to close all folds and zR to open all folds. You could wrap that in a mapping and maybe a function to make it easier to use. I usually type it out once, then use the command line history and editing features to modify the pattern as needed. See :help fold-expr HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
LiveJournal S2 Syntax Highlighting - Strings
Hi all, I'm slapping together a quick syntax highlighting plugin for LiveJournal's S2 code. S2 has a special type of string that is delimited by three quotes, which allows you to include quotes and double quotes in the string, unescaped. (This is useful for quote-heavy stuff like HTML.) It looks like this: """this is a "cool string" in which quotes - "" need not be escaped""" Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to fit this into my syntax highlighting. I guess my biggest problem is that I do not understand the canonical string region declaration; this one is from c.vim: syn regions2Stringstart=+L\="+ skip=+\|\\"+ end=+"+ What in the world do those pluses mean? And that queue of backslashes? I don't understand how those specifications follow pattern syntax. So anyway, I just want to make it parse everything between triple quotes as a String. How do I do it? Thanks. Max -- Max Cantor 516-639-1807 (cell) 802-447-4273 (school Sep - Jun) http://nopoblopt.com
Re: lines folding by pattern ; was Re: hiding lines
On Thu, 4 May 2006 at 8:54pm, Yakov Lerner wrote: > On 5/4/06, Jack Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > :v (and :g) made my day..! > > > > Yes, I use this a lot if I just want to filter out a set of lines, or see > > only lines containing some text (like the old XEDIT command). But what I'd > > really like to to is continue editing in this view and not lose all the > > hidden lines, more like folding. I expect folding can do this, but I've > > never gotten it to work and it seems pretty cumbersome. I'm looking for a > > simple solution involving maybe a couple of command I can make a map for. > > > > I guess I'm looking for a g or v command that folds the lines instead of > > actually deleting them. > > I guess the mappings below are simple enough. If you prefer > to keep it to just couple of lines, you can remove mapping for > and whole function TogglePatternBasedFolding(). What remains is > just 3 lines (maps for f2, f3, and f3). But I find tri-state toggle > (f5) also useful. > > " Simple pattern-based folding. > " How to use: (1) perform searh (so that vim remebers search pattern), > " (2) press f2, f3 f4, or press f5 repeatedly. > " > " F2 - fold lines that match current-search-pattern (cf :v//p) > " F3 - fold lines that do not match current-search-pattern (cf :g//p) > " F4 - open all folds > " F5 - tri-state toggle between f2-f3-f4 > > map :set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~@/ foldmethod=expr > foldenablezM > map :set foldexpr=!(getline(v:lnum)=~@/) foldmethod=expr > foldenablezM > map :set nofoldenable > map :call TogglePatternBasedFolding() > > function! TogglePatternBasedFolding() > if &foldenable && &foldmethod=='expr' && &foldexpr[0] == '!' > :set nofoldenable | redraw | echo "all folds opened" > elseif &foldenable && &foldmethod=='expr' && &foldexpr[0] == 'g' > :set foldexpr=!(getline(v:lnum)=~@/) foldmethod=expr foldenable > normal zM > redraw | echo "lines not matching /".@/."/ folded" > else " &foldenable && &foldmethod=='expr' && &foldexpr[0] == 'g' > :set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~@/ foldmethod=expr foldenable > normal zM > redraw | echo "lines matching /".@/."/ folded" > endif > endfun > > > Yakov May I suggest that you take a look at my foldutil.vim? It allows folding by matching lines as well as other criterion, and also gives you the flexibility of specifying a context. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=158 -- Thanks, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Highlighting cursor in a color terminal
Hey, I am currently on a Linux console on a HP Jornada where the cursor is barely visible. When editing, I use visual mode as a workaround to quickly find out where I am in the file. But this is not the solution I would like to use in the long term. I ran into :highlight Cursor in the documentation, but something like :highlight Cursor ctermbg=Red does not seem to work for me. Any ideas why this is not working or any ideas for a workaround (I guess it should be possible to write a script that highlights the cursor without using highlight Cursor anyways)? Greetings, Alex
avoid "Press Enter..." with new z= from function
Is there a way to avoid the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" when requesting spelling suggestions from a :normal z= call in a function? I'm not able to make any of the usual tricks (&shm, raising the command height) work, and this statement blocks user input. -- Steve Hall [ digitect mindspring com ]
Network problem
Hi VIMmers, I'm sorry that I'm not able to sync the SVN repository with the CVS repository on time today, because the network is suffering some problems. I had tried different routes but all failed. Maybe there is something wrong with the main gateways of the whole country. :-( I'll sync the code as soon as the network recovers. Please wait for my notice. Best wishes~ Regards, Edward Leap Fox
Re: LiveJournal S2 Syntax Highlighting - Strings
On 5/5/06, Max Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: S2 has a special type of string that is delimited by three quotes, which allows you to include quotes and double quotes in the string, unescaped. (This is useful for quote-heavy stuff like HTML.) It looks like this: """this is a "cool string" in which quotes - "" need not be escaped""" Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how to fit this into my syntax highlighting. I guess my biggest problem is that I do not understand the canonical string region declaration; this one is from c.vim: syn regions2Stringstart=+L\="+ skip=+\|\\"+ end=+"+ What in the world do those pluses mean? And that queue of backslashes? I don't understand how those specifications follow pattern syntax. It's just equivalent to ... start=/L\="/ skip=/\|\\"/ end=/"/ ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]"@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]|\\"@ end=@"@ ... start=;L\="; skip=;\|\\"; end=;"; Any delimiter can be used in place of '/' to delimit regexp! BTW it's also true about :s/// command; all of the following mean the same: :s;from;to; :[EMAIL PROTECTED]@to@ :s+from+to+ (except when separattor occurs inside the regexp and replacement). Backslashes mean to handle the "\n\\\"" C notation. Maybe you don't need it, depending of whether S2 handlesh backslas inside quoted sring specially or not. Yakov
Using vim to keep a todo list
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've looked all over the net for a simple console based todo list manager and I always eventually come back to just using vim to edit a plain text file. I imagine there are other people who use vim to manage a todo list so I'd like to know what kind of tips&tricks you might have. Thanks in advance, Yi -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEWt7LtXlIMrUVVksRAiYBAJ4t1OlUVIqDFDqnENp1/DlRhiXR+gCfZH5E uri7p8l1s8rUMUa9KP21lp4= =RDSB -END PGP SIGNATURE-