Re: [PATCH] cygwin: Trouble recognizing absolute path
On Oct 13 14:06, Gary Johnson wrote: I thought the purpose of Cygwin was to provide a Linux-like environment for applications, so that, for example, one could simply recompile under Cygwin an application written for Linux and not have to rewrite the file-handling routines to recognize DOS file names. That's the purpose of the cygdrive directory, is it not? It seems to me that if DOS paths do work, usually, it's because the application was written to deal with them or it never looks at any file names, but simply hands them whole to the Cygwin file I/O API. You're right. But vim is not a Linux application. It tries hard to accomodate many non-Linux systems like OS/2, Windows, VMS, Amiga and, fwiw, any Unix flavor. DOS paths are supported in vim anyway, and even os_unix.c makes concessions to DOS paths in the OS2 case already. That's why I think adding a Cygwin case to support DOS and POSIX paths simultaneously would be ok. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Project Co-Leader Red Hat
Re: Patch 7.0.134
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 at 9:40pm, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Hari Krishna Dara wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 at 3:10pm, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Patch 7.0.134 Problem:Crash when comparing a recursively looped List or Dictionary. Solution: Limit recursiveness for comparing to 1000. Files:src/eval.c Does this handle the cases when the exact same objects are involved in the references? All such cases will result in inf. recursion, as there is no logic to break the references, like it is possible in case of functions. If not, is it going to be in another patch? Yes, I have another patch in the pipeline to have comparing a list or dictionary with itself return TRUE quickly. Also, I was thinking of returning TRUE instead of FALSE when running into the recursiveness limit. If everything compares equal so far, then it's probably equal. There should be an error message, but I'm afraid you might get thousands of them... The need to compare lists or dictionaries with suge depths is very very rare, unless the user logic has a bug that creates such structures or Vim logic itself fails to detect recursions, in which case giving out an error message is helpful. -- Thanks, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
A small VIM patch
Please apply the attached patch to remove an invalid usage of the test command. I have tested this against VIM 7.0.121 in NetBSD pkgsrc. Martti $NetBSD: patch-ac,v 1.8 2006/10/16 17:00:29 martti Exp $ --- src/configure.in.orig 2006-10-16 19:41:43.0 + +++ src/configure.in2006-10-16 19:42:02.0 + @@ -2835,7 +2835,7 @@ test x$GUITYPE != xCARBONGUI; then AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether we need -framework Carbon) dnl check for MACOSX without Carbon GUI, but with FEAT_MBYTE - if test x$enable_multibyte = xyes || test x$features == xbig \ + if test x$enable_multibyte = xyes || test x$features = xbig \ || test x$features = xhuge; then LIBS=$LIBS -framework Carbon AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
RE: vim and 64bit xp
Shell extensions are very specific to a particular bitness of Windows. -- 32-bit DLLs can only load into 32-bit processes. -- 64-bit DLLs can only load into 64-bit processes. The default shell for Win64 is the 64-bit version of explorer.exe (this is configurable), and it will NOT load the 32-bit gvimext.dll for two reasons: 1. The 32-bit gvimext.dll is a 32-bit DLL. 2. The 32-bit gvimext.dll is registered in the 32-bit registry. To make this work, you would have to rebuild gvimext.dll in a 64-bit version and register it in the 64-bit section of the registry. Note that you may find gvimext working in such places as the File-Save and File-Load dialogs of 32-bit processes, since they DO load the 32-bit shell extensions. You can also run the 32-bit shell instead of the 64-bit shell, and this will get your shell extensions back in most cases. As an alternative, you can get Open with gVim in your right-click menu WITHOUT gvimext.dll. This works on ALL versions of Windows. Open RegEdit and: 1. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\* 2. Create or open a subkey named shell. 3. Create a subkey named vim. 4. (Optional.) Set the default value of the vim key to whatever you want to appear in the right-click menu (i.e. Edit with gVim). If you don't do this, the name of the subkey (vim) will be used. 5. Create a subkey named command. 6. Set the default value of the command key to the command you want to run. Mine is: C:\Tools\vim\vim70\gvim.exe %1 -Original Message- From: A.J.Mechelynck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:46 PM To: Brian Krusic Cc: vim-dev Subject: Re: vim and 64bit xp Brian Krusic wrote: Thanks fo rthe reply. Still no shell extension. I did the regedit approach. Any ideas? Is Gvimext.dll in a directory in your PATH? Check it at the dos-box prompt: echo %PATH% or in Vim: :echo $PATH If it isn't, you can set it in (IIRC) Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment variables The Dos/Windows PATH is a semicolon-separated list of directories; the directory containing that DLL may be either the same as for gvim.exe (usually something like C:\Program Files\Vim\vim70) or a gvimext subdirectory of that (I'm not on Windows at the moment and can't check). Best regards, Tony.
VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
Hi, I am using VIM 7.0 on UNIX. I have files with extension .lib (*.lib files). VIM automatically thinks that it is a Cobol filetype. The file has nothing to do with Cobol. I have tried setting the following things in my .vimrc. au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lib set ft=text au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lib filetype off au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lib filetype plugin indent off I could take away the glaring syntax highlighting (red background on all text!!!), but it was not of any help in terms of searching and regular expression. In ordinary text files, underscore (_) is considered as a legal part of the word (or the regular expression \w). However in files with extension .lib, VIM seems to consider underscore (_) as a special character. Is there anyway for me to make *.lib files to be treated as ordinary text files by VIM for everything (syntax highlighting, indenting, regular expression searching etc.)? I tried editing the filetype.vim in the runtime directory and commenting the portion with the .lib extension. But it didn't work. Thanks, Uday
Re: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
Kunapuli, Udaykumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 14:37:33: Hi, I tried editing the filetype.vim in the runtime directory and commenting the portion with the .lib extension. But it didn't work. Are you sure you had done it right? I removed the *.lib and it works. this is the filetype.vim around 440 (after the *.lib removed) Cobol au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cbl,*.cob setf cobol IMO, the *.lib is a common extension which should not be treated as cobol file. So just remove the relationship here.
gvim-7-0-118.exe virus found??
Dear all, Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? Ed
Re: Version confusion
Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-14 14:10:19: I myself use to update my vim source with the newest patches and download the runtime files on a regular base. Furthermore I download the newest CVS stuff from vim-ruby, the ruby support files for vim. How can I simplify the update of my whole vim environment without the need to look into each single file whether it is newer/older as another file of the same name at another place and what version of this file will work with what version of another file of the same suit at shat place? Keep hacking! mcc Tony's reply is precise and detailed, but that's not simple enough. I simplyfy it to the following: If you choose to put something in ~/.vim, then you'll always have to update it yourself. If there's something both in $VIMRUNTIME and ~/.vim, Vim will use the version in ~/.vim. So, if you want the vim distribution to update the script, just do not custumize it in ~/.vim and keep the official version. If you choose to do it yourself, just be aware what scripts you had in ~/.vim and update it when you feel it necessary.
Re: [SPAM?]Re: VIM as C++ IDE
This is brilliant, I've never used make from inside Vim before, please surpress your sniggersAs I am working on Linux with a microsoft ergonomic keyboard, I have an unused windows button or two, how would I map the right hand one to the same mapping as below, i.e. instead of F12? As KDE's control centre in the custom shortcuts returns Win for the windows button, I tried: map Win+M ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter:copekEnter but it doesn't seem to do anything, how does Vim interpret the windows key? Many thanks, Rob. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-14 05:59:29: map F12 ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter Can some body provide some script to satisfy my more general requirement? I want press F12, then make is called. The error window will not be closed unless I do so. When I brower the error, the file where the error is from will be open automatically and the cursor is put in the error line? Thanks, Peng for that simple, don't need any plugin: map F12 ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter:copekEnter You see, just add the :cope will do the trick. Note that the cursor will be in :cope window then, you may need to press an enter key to go into the first error. But what to do when there's no error? then CR does nothing. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
Re: VIM as C++ IDE
As far as I know Vim cannot recognize the Win key (Please correct me if I'm wrong). In fact, it isn't that difficult to type all those, so I'd refer to keep the :cope window on all the time, and I have the habit to input :w everytime I changed a new line. So all I need to do is to type :make, which isn't complex and I don't need a short-cut for that. Note that you need to set your 'makeprg' right. However, if all you need is to make use of the Win key, KDE can be set to something like the 4-modifiers KDE default, and that's the settings I'm currently using that and I use win shortcut key on most KDE-related features. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Robert Cussons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 15:45:47: This is brilliant, I've never used make from inside Vim before, please surpress your sniggersAs I am working on Linux with a microsoft ergonomic keyboard, I have an unused windows button or two, how would I map the right hand one to the same mapping as below, i.e. instead of F12? As KDE's control centre in the custom shortcuts returns Win for the windows button, I tried: map Win+M ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter:copekEnter but it doesn't seem to do anything, how does Vim interpret the windows key? Many thanks, Rob.
Re: [SPAM?]Re: VIM as C++ IDE
On 10/16/06, Robert Cussons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is brilliant, I've never used make from inside Vim before, please surpress your sniggersAs I am working on Linux with a microsoft ergonomic keyboard, I have an unused windows button or two, how would I map the right hand one to the same mapping as below, i.e. instead of F12? As KDE's control centre in the custom shortcuts returns Win for the windows button, I tried: map Win+M ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter:copekEnter but it doesn't seem to do anything, how does Vim interpret the windows key? You can map WinKey to Fx (where 12x) , and then map Fx to whatever wou want in vim. xev will help you to find the keycode for winkey (usually 115 or 116) then xmodmap -e keycode 115 = F30 and you're done. Now windows key sends an F30 and you should be able to make a map from vim HTH, Ray Many thanks, Rob. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peng Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-14 05:59:29: map F12 ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter Can some body provide some script to satisfy my more general requirement? I want press F12, then make is called. The error window will not be closed unless I do so. When I brower the error, the file where the error is from will be open automatically and the cursor is put in the error line? Thanks, Peng for that simple, don't need any plugin: map F12 ESC:wkEnter:makekEnter:copekEnter You see, just add the :cope will do the trick. Note that the cursor will be in :cope window then, you may need to press an enter key to go into the first error. But what to do when there's no error? then CR does nothing. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
Re: VIM as C++ IDE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know Vim cannot recognize the Win key (Please correct me if I'm wrong). In fact, it isn't that difficult to type all those, so I'd refer to keep the :cope window on all the time, and I have the habit to input :w everytime I changed a new line. So all I need to do is to type :make, which isn't complex and I don't need a short-cut for that. Note that you need to set your 'makeprg' right. I agree with that, but how do I keep the :cope window on all the time set cope in .vimrc or something? However, if all you need is to make use of the Win key, KDE can be set to something like the 4-modifiers KDE default, and that's the settings I'm currently using that and I use win shortcut key on most KDE-related features. sorry, I don't really understande what you mean by this...although I've just noticed that I have under KDE modifiers: ModifierX11-Mod Shift shift Ctrlcontrol Alt mod1 Win mod4 I think I need to read up on what these KDE modifiers mean, anyway thanks for the help with using make. Rob.
Re: problem compiling vim70.
A friend had this problem on Ubuntu. I think it turned out that his LD_LIBRARY_PATH or equivalent wasn't pointing to the ncurses library for some reason. On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ajay Gupta wrote: no terminal library found checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND! You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses. Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib. -- .
Re: copy from pdfs
Vim Visual wrote: Hi, is there a way to remove all those strange symbols (and substitute them with proper caracters) you get when you select a text section from a pdf file and try to paste it into a vim file? The fi and ` etc are unknown to vim and it refuses to paste them... For instance: - efficient - K Try to copy and paste them into a vim file... Pau What do you have 'encoding' set to? If it is set to Latin1, try adding the following to your vimrc: if (enc !~? '^u') (tenc == '') let tenc = enc endif set enc=utf8 setglobal bomb Best regards, Tony.
Re: copy from pdfs
ah! I love you! you solved the problem! My encoding was set to UTF-8, though 2006/10/16, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vim Visual wrote: Hi, is there a way to remove all those strange symbols (and substitute them with proper caracters) you get when you select a text section from a pdf file and try to paste it into a vim file? The fi and ` etc are unknown to vim and it refuses to paste them... For instance: - efficient - K Try to copy and paste them into a vim file... Pau What do you have 'encoding' set to? If it is set to Latin1, try adding the following to your vimrc: if (enc !~? '^u') (tenc == '') let tenc = enc endif set enc=utf8 setglobal bomb Best regards, Tony.
Re: copy from pdfs
Vim Visual wrote: ah! I love you! you solved the problem! My encoding was set to UTF-8, though then maybe your 'fileencodings' was wrong? (Setting 'encoding' to UTF-8 also sets 'fileencodings' to ucs-bom,utf-8,default,latin1 which helps recognise the encodings of Unicode files.) 2006/10/16, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vim Visual wrote: Hi, is there a way to remove all those strange symbols (and substitute them with proper caracters) you get when you select a text section from a pdf file and try to paste it into a vim file? The fi and ` etc are unknown to vim and it refuses to paste them... For instance: - efficient - K Try to copy and paste them into a vim file... Pau What do you have 'encoding' set to? If it is set to Latin1, try adding the following to your vimrc: if (enc !~? '^u') (tenc == '') let tenc = enc endif set enc=utf8 setglobal bomb Best regards, Tony. Best regards, Tony.
Re: VIM as C++ IDE
Robert Cussons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 16:43:53: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know Vim cannot recognize the Win key (Please correct me if I'm wrong). In fact, it isn't that difficult to type all those, so I'd refer to keep the :cope window on all the time, and I have the habit to input :w everytime I changed a new line. So all I need to do is to type :make, which isn't complex and I don't need a short-cut for that. Note that you need to set your 'makeprg' right. I agree with that, but how do I keep the :cope window on all the time set cope in .vimrc or something? just add a line :cope 1 in .vimrc and it will be opened, if you want to keep it always open, uh, just do never close it. ;-) That's similiar to what I do, I personally using a modified project plugin, and I wrote it in the startup script of the project, when the project opens, the :cope window will open. sorry, I don't really understande what you mean by this...although I've just noticed that I have under KDE modifiers: Modifier X11-Mod Shift shift Ctrl control Alt mod1 Win mod4 I mean the tabpage left to the page you refered to. If you cannot get it, well, just ignore it, doesn't matter too much ;-) -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
RE: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
Looks like it is hard-coded. No matter what I try, VIM does recognize *.lib as a cobol file. I have deleted the occurrence of cobol and .lib in the filetype.vim file. But of no use. In fact there is no occurrence of cobol in any of my runtime files. The irritating thing is the search pattern, regular expression change. You can try hitting * on a word with underscore character (_) on a file with .lib extension, you will see that it considers underscore (_) as a distinct (non-word) character. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:50 PM To: Kunapuli, Udaykumar Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX) Kunapuli, Udaykumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 14:37:33: Hi, I tried editing the filetype.vim in the runtime directory and commenting the portion with the .lib extension. But it didn't work. Are you sure you had done it right? I removed the *.lib and it works. this is the filetype.vim around 440 (after the *.lib removed) Cobol au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cbl,*.cob setf cobol IMO, the *.lib is a common extension which should not be treated as cobol file. So just remove the relationship here.
RE: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
Hi, You problem can be worked around with :set isk+=_ But your problem may be you are not changing the one Vim is sourceing, or if the settings are overrideed by future scripts. you have a filetype.vim in system wide $VIM directory or your ~/.vim directory or vimfiles/after directory? see :h 'runtimepath' or if there is directories like ~/.vim/ftdetect and scripts in there overrides the default setting? see :h new-filetype Hope that helps. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Kunapuli, Udaykumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 18:30:55: Looks like it is hard-coded. No matter what I try, VIM does recognize *.lib as a cobol file. I have deleted the occurrence of cobol and .lib in the filetype.vim file. But of no use. In fact there is no occurrence of cobol in any of my runtime files. The irritating thing is the search pattern, regular expression change. You can try hitting * on a word with underscore character (_) on a file with .lib extension, you will see that it considers underscore (_) as a distinct (non- word) character. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:50 PM To: Kunapuli, Udaykumar Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX) Kunapuli, Udaykumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 14:37:33: Hi, I tried editing the filetype.vim in the runtime directory and commenting the portion with the .lib extension. But it didn't work. Are you sure you had done it right? I removed the *.lib and it works. this is the filetype.vim around 440 (after the *.lib removed) Cobol au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cbl,*.cob setf cobol IMO, the *.lib is a common extension which should not be treated as cobol file. So just remove the relationship here.
substitude, write and close with one command
Hi, I would like to ask you for help with my problem. I think it is simple but in fact I'm not able to find the solution as quickly as I need. I need to do sometink like :s/a/b/g :wq It means to substitute, write and close file. Is there any solution? Thank you all in advance Tomas Lovetinsky
Re: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
Kunapuli, Udaykumar wrote: Looks like it is hard-coded. No matter what I try, VIM does recognize *.lib as a cobol file. I have deleted the occurrence of cobol and .lib in the filetype.vim file. But of no use. In fact there is no occurrence of cobol in any of my runtime files. The irritating thing is the search pattern, regular expression change. You can try hitting * on a word with underscore character (_) on a file with .lib extension, you will see that it considers underscore (_) as a distinct (non-word) character. Did you restart Vim after that? If you didn't, the autocommands that were set up at startup to detect *.lib as filetype cobol are probably still in place. Note: Any changes you make anywhere in the $VIMRUNTIME directory tree can be undone silently by any upgrade. You would be better off detecting your own filetypes in ~/.vim/filetype.vim (for Unix) or ~/vimfiles/filetype.vim (for Windows). Best regards, Tony.
Re: substitude, write and close with one command
Tomas Lovetinsky wrote: Hi, I would like to ask you for help with my problem. I think it is simple but in fact I'm not able to find the solution as quickly as I need. I need to do sometink like :s/a/b/g :wq It means to substitute, write and close file. Is there any solution? Thank you all in advance Tomas Lovetinsky :s/a/b/g |wq see :help :bar and keep reading until you've scrolled down a hundred lines or so. Note: Without a |range| between : and s the substitute will act only on the current line. Best regards, Tony.
Re: substitude, write and close with one command
Most commands may be separated by a vertical bar (|), see :help :bar This will do what you want: :s/a/b/g | w | q On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:34:31PM +0100, Tomas Lovetinsky wrote: Hi, I would like to ask you for help with my problem. I think it is simple but in fact I'm not able to find the solution as quickly as I need. I need to do sometink like :s/a/b/g :wq It means to substitute, write and close file. Is there any solution? Thank you all in advance Tomas Lovetinsky -- + Gregory H. Margo gmargo at yahoo/com, gmail/com, pacbell/net; greg at margofamily/org
Re: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 11:37:33PM -0700, Kunapuli, Udaykumar wrote: Hi, I am using VIM 7.0 on UNIX. I have files with extension .lib (*.lib files). VIM automatically thinks that it is a Cobol filetype. The file has nothing to do with Cobol. I have tried setting the following things in my .vimrc. au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lib set ft=text au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lib filetype off au BufNewFile,BufRead *.lib filetype plugin indent off The first line should be enough. The 'filetype' (abbreviated 'ft') option is local to the buffer and should be set each time you edit a *.lib buffer. The :filetype command is global. If you want to turn off all filetype detection, add the line filetype off to your vimrc file. I cannot think of any situation in which it makes sense to put it in a BufNewFile,BufRead autocommand. I could take away the glaring syntax highlighting (red background on all text!!!), but it was not of any help in terms of searching and regular expression. In ordinary text files, underscore (_) is considered as a legal part of the word (or the regular expression \w). However in files with extension .lib, VIM seems to consider underscore (_) as a special character. Is there anyway for me to make *.lib files to be treated as ordinary text files by VIM for everything (syntax highlighting, indenting, regular expression searching etc.)? The problem is that autocommands are executed in the order in which they are defined. Apparently, the autocommand in your vimrc file, setting ft=text, comes after the one that sets ft=cobol. Thus things happen in this order: :set ft=cobol :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/cobol.vim :setlocal isk=@,48-57,- :set ft=text and nothing undoes the 'iskeyword' setting. The simple solution is to make sure that your autocommand comes before any filetype on or source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim in your vimrc file. A more robust method (since it does not rely on the order of lines in your vimrc file) is to use either method A or C from :help new-filetype I tried editing the filetype.vim in the runtime directory and commenting the portion with the .lib extension. But it didn't work. That is not recommended. If you fix problems by editing things under $VIMRUNTIME, then you will have to remember to fix them each time you upgrade to a new version of vim. In the long run, it is easier to fix things in your own vim directory. Thanks, Uday HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: gvim-7-0-118.exe virus found??
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0800, Edward Wong wrote: Dear all, Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? Ed Please be more specific. Can you give a link to the archive you downloaded? Or did you use CVS or SVN (and , if so, what command did you use)? HTH --Benji Fisher
Using output of Vim commands in scripts
Hi everybody, Is it possible to use the output of Vim commands in a script? My specific problem currently is that I would like to use the output of :tabs in a script. I cannot find a Vim function that does the same as this command. Any ideas? Thanks Marius
auto mkview/loadview
Hi Guys, I used to have this in .vimrc autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview autocmd BufWinEnter * silent loadview to automatically save and load folds. I have recently added it again, but it does not seem to work in Vim 7 on Win XP. Have I missed anything obvious? Thanks Sam
Re: How to find a file.
I have used your script, but it can't content me. I want to find the file under the current dir, its subdir or maybe its sub-subdir. So I hope while I'm inputting the filename, the popup menu should display the paths with the file, not the dir, containing the characters I input. -- With regards Zheng Da On 10/15/06, Hari Krishna Dara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 at 3:41pm, Zheng Da wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? You got the answer for using :find command already, but I would like to suggest you to try my LookupFile plugin that allows you to use the Vim7 popup completion to do this using custom tags files. http://www.vim.org//script.php?script_id=1581 -- HTH, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Compiling VIM with custom directories for libraries
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Wind wrote: On 2006-10-16T03:03:30+0200, Anupam Srivastava wrote: So, I have downloaded and compiled ncurses in my local directory. Now I want Vim to detect this new library. How to do it? If you with library mean a .so, then including the path where it is stored in LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting vim should do. No I am asking about how to compile the Vim given my ncurses is installed in /some/path/in/my/home and not in /usr/ or /usr/local/ I suppose there is some variable which I can reset to this new path. What is that variable? - -- Anupam Srivastava Scientific Coworker Universität Stuttgart Get my public keys: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DF8B2AFE 99F8BB81 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFM6JX7GZ7yN+LKv4RAq0tAJ98v0oYd7/UsVFxxdNYcUFj9PvLTwCeNGFH 8Yj61Zd/SZYO1jA0/KDsmfs= =zVrn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: gvim-7-0-118.exe virus found??
On Monday 16 October 2006 15:40, Benji Fisher wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0800, Edward Wong wrote: Dear all, Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? Ed Please be more specific. Can you give a link to the archive you downloaded? Or did you use CVS or SVN (and , if so, what command did you use)? HTH --Benji Fisher The name of the viril would be good to know also...
cursor moves back with ESC
Hello, I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there any way to turn it off? thanks! -lev
Re: cursor moves back with ESC
Lev Lvovsky wrote: I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there any way to turn it off? To best understand this, one needs to use console vim. There, the cursor cannot be between characters; it must lie on a character. So, the insert puts a character before the character the cursor is on; when done, the cursor lies on the last inserted character. Now, try gvim. Gvim lets the cursor lie between characters, but when done, the character again lies on the last inserted character. Seems a reasonable choice, to me. Any choice would be arbitrary. Now, to turn it off: don't use insert. Use append. Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: Using output of Vim commands in scripts
Dnia poniedziałek, 16 października 2006 15:05, Marius Roets napisał: Hi everybody, Is it possible to use the output of Vim commands in a script? My specific problem currently is that I would like to use the output of :tabs in a script. I cannot find a Vim function that does the same as this command. Any ideas? :help :redir From third entry you have what you want (redirect to register/variable/clipboard etc.). m.
How to get vimspell.vim working?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I am working on Vim 6.0 and I cannot update. I am new to VIM. I have downloaded vimspell.vim from vim.org and copied it to ~/.vim/plugin It is installed as I can read :help vimspell But I don't get how to enable auto-spell check. Sorry for asking this stupid question as I don't have much time in my hand right now to read all of the manuals. (I kind of understood Leader but I couldn't figure out anything else. - -- Anupam Srivastava Scientific Coworker Universität Stuttgart Get my public keys: gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys DF8B2AFE 99F8BB81 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFM80m7GZ7yN+LKv4RAm6VAJ4iXS/sUSauIrb4ShF7TXafRjBvdwCfV7Kd 1dnXB6/ktbA3Pjd+nnIstL4= =lLsr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: cursor moves back with ESC
On 10/16/06, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there any way to turn it off? IIRC there was a post some months a go on list with location of unofficial patch that changes this behaviour. (I dont have the location of the patch at hand). You can try this: au InsertLeave * norm l , not that I find it convenient. YMMV. Yakov
Re: cursor moves back with ESC
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Seems a reasonable choice, to me. Any choice would be arbitrary. Now, to turn it off: don't use insert. Use append. if you mean 'a' as opposed to 'i' for the modes, it still does the same thing in my version. thanks, -lev
RE: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX)
Thanks, it worked! Actually I was mistaken about the runtime path. I was changing the filetype.vim in the wrong location (in the directory where I untarred and unzipped the files). I did a :echo $VIM to find out the runtime path and it showed that the runtime path was in ~/share/vim/vim70. I edited the filetype.vim in that directory and it worked. Thanks again for your help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 3:48 AM To: Kunapuli, Udaykumar Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: RE: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX) Hi, You problem can be worked around with :set isk+=_ But your problem may be you are not changing the one Vim is sourceing, or if the settings are overrideed by future scripts. you have a filetype.vim in system wide $VIM directory or your ~/.vim directory or vimfiles/after directory? see :h 'runtimepath' or if there is directories like ~/.vim/ftdetect and scripts in there overrides the default setting? see :h new-filetype Hope that helps. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Kunapuli, Udaykumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 18:30:55: Looks like it is hard-coded. No matter what I try, VIM does recognize *.lib as a cobol file. I have deleted the occurrence of cobol and .lib in the filetype.vim file. But of no use. In fact there is no occurrence of cobol in any of my runtime files. The irritating thing is the search pattern, regular expression change. You can try hitting * on a word with underscore character (_) on a file with .lib extension, you will see that it considers underscore (_) as a distinct (non- word) character. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:50 PM To: Kunapuli, Udaykumar Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: VIM help for normal text files with extension .lib (on UNIX) Kunapuli, Udaykumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 14:37:33: Hi, I tried editing the filetype.vim in the runtime directory and commenting the portion with the .lib extension. But it didn't work. Are you sure you had done it right? I removed the *.lib and it works. this is the filetype.vim around 440 (after the *.lib removed) Cobol au BufNewFile,BufRead *.cbl,*.cob setf cobol IMO, the *.lib is a common extension which should not be treated as cobol file. So just remove the relationship here.
windows (was C++ IDE)
Hello, I'm (very) slowly installing plugins and mapping keys to their functions. Currently I have the project and the taglist plugins configured. Window behaviour is a little annoying though. I want files to always open in the center window, not in the project window, the taglist window or the quickfix window. Is there some way I can lock a window to a particular content? Regards, Brecht
Re: Please Remove FTP File
Bill McCarthy wrote: The runtime directory doc (and dos/doc) contain both getscript.txt and the more recent pi_getscript.txt. The 'helptags' command doesn't like this :-) Please delete getscript.txt from both locations. Sorry about that. I'll fix the problem. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 42. Your virtual girlfriend finds a new net sweetheart with a larger bandwidth. /// 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: --enable-pythoninterp gives unrecognized option `-pthread' on MacOS X
* Bram Moolenaar on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 14:24:09 +0200: The configure script has a specific check for not adding -pthread on Mac OS/X. It looks like you used the --disable-darwin argument or somehow disabled Darwin in another way. Please check src/auto/config.log. I just found out that the warning when compiling w/o GUI must have gone with one of the recent patches. Thank you. c -- _B A U S T E L L E N_ lesen! --- http://www.blacktrash.org/baustellen.html
Re: Vim and foreign languages
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:02:25 +0200 Preben Randhol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm using Vim to write Greek text. I found a nice tip at: http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/270 on how to get Vim to accept greek letters as commands. Just using maps basicly so it is quite easy. Forgot to say that the set langmap in the help of Vim doesn't work. I use UTF-8 keymap (set by setxkbmap) and Gtk version of Vim 7.0 Preben
Undo between sessions
I am almost certain that this has been asked before, and I am almost sure that the answer is no, that would be silly, but I can't find anything in the archives, in :help or on Google in general. I am suffering the aftereffects of a bout of flu today, so perhaps I'm just being bad at searching. Basically, is there any (easy) way of preserving the undo stack between sessions? I typically work with half a dozen tabs and 20-30 files open at any one time and whenever I need to reboot my machine then I do a :mksession and reload it when I come back. It is ridiculously useful, but I would love if the undo was stored too. Cheers, and sorry for asking this over-asked question again. Max
Cannot compile vim 7.0
Hello, I'm getting a parse error when I try to compile vim 7.0. I've tried installing the 7.0 release of vim on AIX 5.3. I get the following error: make install gcc -c -I. -Iproto -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DFEAT_GUI_MOTIF -DFUNCPROTO=15 -O -I/usr/X11R6/include-oobjects/buffer.o buffer.c In file included from gui.h:11, from structs.h:81, from vim.h:1540, from buffer.c:28: /usr/include/Xm/Xm.h:42:34: X11/extensions/Print.h: No such file or directory In file included from gui.h:11, from structs.h:81, from vim.h:1540, from buffer.c:28: /usr/include/Xm/Xm.h:750: error: parse error before XPContext /usr/include/Xm/Xm.h:753: error: parse error before '}' token make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1. Stop. So, the install is getting killed when it goes to include /usr/include/Xm/Xm.h. What is causing this? I don't feel comfortable modifying Xm.h, when it might be in use elsewhere. First I applied all the patches to the 7.0 source, but when I ran into this problem, I tried going back to the source as it was before any patches, and I still got the same result. So it must not be the patches, then. Thanks for any light you can shed on this, Anne Wall
Re: Please Remove FTP File
On Mon 16-Oct-06 2:40pm -0600, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Bill McCarthy wrote: The runtime directory doc (and dos/doc) contain both getscript.txt and the more recent pi_getscript.txt. The 'helptags' command doesn't like this :-) Please delete getscript.txt from both locations. Sorry about that. I'll fix the problem. All fixed. Thanks! -- Best regards, Bill
Re: gvim-7-0-118.exe virus found??
Benji Fisher wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0800, Edward Wong wrote: Dear all, Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? Ed Please be more specific. Can you give a link to the archive you downloaded? Or did you use CVS or SVN (and , if so, what command did you use)? HTH --Benji Fisher I suspect it's Steve Hall's build for W32, which is hosted on the sourceforge servers nowadays (at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721 ). If my guess is right, I would expect a false alarm, but I can't guarantee that even Steve and SourceForge are immune to virus infestation. If you want to suffer from no other viruses than your own ones, you (Edward) can compile your own Vim: it is not really hard. See my HowTo page (for Windows it's at http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm ) if you're interested. Best regards, Tony.
Re: Vim and foreign languages
Preben Randhol wrote: Hi I'm using Vim to write Greek text. I found a nice tip at: http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/270 on how to get Vim to accept greek letters as commands. Just using maps basicly so it is quite easy. The problem is that I would like to be able to translate in insert mode the following: imap C-ο C-o imap C-κ C-k imap C-π C-p but it doesn't work. I get only ο, κ and π. Why? Thanks in advance Preben I believe that this is an OS problem rather than a Vim problem. To see what (if any) Vim sees when you hit kappa, omikron or pi with the Ctrl key being depressed, hit the key combination in question prefixed by Ctrl-V in Insert mode (and if your Ctrl-V is mapped to the paste operation, use Ctrl-Q instead). If Ctrl-V Ctrl-kappa enters a plain kappa into your buffer, it means that your keyboard interface transmits the same thing to Vim for Ctrl-kappa and for kappa, and in that case Vim cannot tell them apart. If you are running gvim, Vim in an xterm interfacing through the X-windows server, or Vim in Windows, then Xmodmap or some international keyboard GUI utility might perhaps help you. In the pure-text console /dev/tty on Linux, you may need to hack the keyboard map which is loaded at some point during the init bootup process. If your OS locale is normally set to some Latin-alphabet locale (such as de_DE.ISO-8859-1 or French_Belgium.1252), you don't need to change that to be able to input Greek into Vim in Insert mode: see :help mbyte-keymap :help 'keymap' :help digraph.txt :help i_CTRL-V_digit Of course, you will first need to make sure that your 'encoding' includes the Greek alphabet; but the great thing about this method is that your Latin keyboard remains active in Normal and Visual modes, so that you don't get any headaches using Vim in that mode. In effect, a keymap is a set of language mappings, i.e., mappings which apply only in Insert/Replace mode, in Command-line mode, and for the text operand of a few Normal-mode commands like r f t etc., and which can be toggled on and off at will, by using Ctrl-^ in Insert mode or by toggling the 'iminsert' option by means of the :set or :setlocal commands in Normal mode. Best regards, Tony.
Re: cursor moves back with ESC
Lev Lvovsky wrote: On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Seems a reasonable choice, to me. Any choice would be arbitrary. Now, to turn it off: don't use insert. Use append. if you mean 'a' as opposed to 'i' for the modes, it still does the same thing in my version. thanks, -lev When you hit 'a' in Normal mode, the cursor moves one character right while going into Insert mode, so that compensates for the leftwards move which happens on Esc in Insert mode. In Normal mode, the cursor must lie on a character (assuming you're not using 'virtualedit'). In Insert mode, the cursor can be either on a character, or just after the last character on a line (in gvim, the Insert-mode cursor is normally a thin vertical line along the left side of its character cell, but it must still be regarded as being on a character cell). So there are one more possible cursor positions on each line in Insert mode than in Normal mode. The choice which (IIUC) the authors of Vi (ancestor to Vim) originally made, was to have the cursor move back by one character when going from Insert to Normal, except when at the left margin. The alternative would have been to have the cursor stay put, except when at the end of the line. I suppose either choice had arguments in its favour, but we're stuck with the choice that was made. Once you're accustomed to it, it stops chafing. One argument in favour of the choice that was made, is that when typing in new text you're usually at the end of the line (pushing the end of the line with the text you're adding), so it would have been awkward to have that be the exception. Best regards, Tony.
Re: Compiling VIM with custom directories for libraries
On 2006-10-16, Anupam Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Wind wrote: On 2006-10-16T03:03:30+0200, Anupam Srivastava wrote: So, I have downloaded and compiled ncurses in my local directory. Now I want Vim to detect this new library. How to do it? If you with library mean a .so, then including the path where it is stored in LD_LIBRARY_PATH before starting vim should do. No I am asking about how to compile the Vim given my ncurses is installed in /some/path/in/my/home and not in /usr/ or /usr/local/ I suppose there is some variable which I can reset to this new path. What is that variable? The variables are CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. I have this situation on a Sun machine. I downloaded and installed ncurses under /home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4. Here is how I build vim: export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4/include/ncurses export LDFLAGS=-L/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/ncurses-5.4/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/garyjohn/src/SunOS/vim-7.0 --with-tlib=ncurses --enable-cscope make make install HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Wireless Division | Spokane, Washington, USA
Re: How to find a file.
Zheng Da wrote: I have used your script, but it can't content me. I want to find the file under the current dir, its subdir or maybe its sub-subdir. So I hope while I'm inputting the filename, the popup menu should display the paths with the file, not the dir, containing the characters I input. Try (untested) :set path=** to search only in the current directory and below, or :set path+=** to add the whole tree starting at the current directory going down, to whatever 'path' is already set to. This method uses no popup menu, it merely changes the set of directories searched by the :find command. Best regards, Tony.
Re: cursor moves back with ESC
--- Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/06, Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've never actually figured out why upon after typing in insert mode, the cursor moves back one character to the left after pressing escape. What's the reason behind this, and is there any way to turn it off? IIRC there was a post some months a go on list with location of unofficial patch that changes this behaviour. (I dont have the location of the patch at hand). You can try this: au InsertLeave * norm l , not that I find it convenient. YMMV. You can also try: inoremap ESC ESCl which will work a little quicker in a terminal Vim. cheers, Peter On Yahoo!7 Fuel Price Watch: Find the cheapest petrol in your area http://au.maps.yahoo.com/fuelwatch/
Re: cursor moves back with ESC
On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Peter Hodge wrote: You can also try: inoremap ESC ESCl which will work a little quicker in a terminal Vim. works great, thanks! -lev
Re: substitude, write and close with one command
--- Tomas Lovetinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to ask you for help with my problem. I think it is simple but in fact I'm not able to find the solution as quickly as I need. I need to do sometink like :s/a/b/g :wq It means to substitute, write and close file. Hello, You can separate multiple commands using '|', therefore: :s/a/b/g | wq regards, Peter On Yahoo!7 Caller tones: Replace your ring tone with your favourite sound clip! http://callertones.yahoo7.mnetcorporation.com/ctonesmailtag
Re: gvim-7-0-118.exe virus found??
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 00:13 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Benji Fisher wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0800, Edward Wong wrote: Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? Please be more specific. Can you give a link to the archive you downloaded? Or did you use CVS or SVN (and , if so, what command did you use)? I suspect it's Steve Hall's build for W32, which is hosted on the sourceforge servers nowadays (at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721 ). If my guess is right, I would expect a false alarm, but I can't guarantee that even Steve and SourceForge are immune to virus infestation. Some anti-virus software mistakenly interprets the Nullsoft installer as a virus. Just for the record, to date there have been no other reports regarding this binary (in 468 downloads), and it was created on a heavily fortified machine that reports nothing either. -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
Re: gvim-7-0-118.exe virus found??
Tony is right. I was downloading it from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721 The virus is Trojan horse Downloader.Zlob.CV Today I just try other different releases, and still find the same virus in gvim-7-0-135 and gvim-7-0-110. Thanks for the instruction on compiling my own Vim. Will give it a try later when I have time. :) Ed On 10/17/06, A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benji Fisher wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 03:08:58PM +0800, Edward Wong wrote: Dear all, Just tried downloading gvim-7-0-118 from sourceforge and AVG detects there is a trojan virus. Can it be a false alarm? Ed Please be more specific. Can you give a link to the archive you downloaded? Or did you use CVS or SVN (and , if so, what command did you use)? HTH --Benji Fisher I suspect it's Steve Hall's build for W32, which is hosted on the sourceforge servers nowadays (at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=43866package_id=39721 ). If my guess is right, I would expect a false alarm, but I can't guarantee that even Steve and SourceForge are immune to virus infestation. If you want to suffer from no other viruses than your own ones, you (Edward) can compile your own Vim: it is not really hard. See my HowTo page (for Windows it's at http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/vim/compile.htm ) if you're interested. Best regards, Tony.
Slightly OT: HELP! IDE ahead !
Hi, Is it possible to convince kdevelop from using vim? I searched the web but the only source of information I found was of kvim -- and its homepage isn't there anymore. Any ideas? Thank you very much in advanve for any help! Keep hacking! mcc
replace using variable
Hi, I have these words: p1. I am good/p p2. You sucks!/p p3. Take that, moron/p I want to change those sentences into: p id=11. I am good/p p id=22. You sucks!/p p id=33. Take that, moron/p How do I do that using vim replace command? All I can think is this: :%s/p\d/p id=\d\d/igc But that does not work. Any idea? Yeah, I can change them using vim macro or using scripting language but it will be nice if I can change them using vim replace command. Thank you.
Re: replace using variable
--- Akbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have these words: p1. I am good/p p2. You sucks!/p p3. Take that, moron/p I want to change those sentences into: p id=11. I am good/p p id=22. You sucks!/p p id=33. Take that, moron/p How do I do that using vim replace command? All I can think is this: :%s/p\d/p id=\d\d/igc But that does not work. Any idea? Yeah, I can change them using vim macro or using scripting language but it will be nice if I can change them using vim replace command. Hello, you're looking for backreferences: :help /\1 You want this command: :%s/p\(\d\+\)/p id=\1\1/igc regards, Peter P.S. If you are feeling frustrated (Vim can do that to you), try writing something more soothing, e.g.: p1. I am happy/p p2. You are beautiful!/p p3. Take that, as a token of my love/p On Yahoo!7 Music: Create your own personalised radio station. http://au.launch.yahoo.com/
Re: Undo between sessions
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 02:31:40PM -0700, Max Dyckhoff wrote: I am almost certain that this has been asked before, and I am almost sure that the answer is no, that would be silly, but I can't find anything in the archives, in :help or on Google in general. I am suffering the aftereffects of a bout of flu today, so perhaps I'm just being bad at searching. Basically, is there any (easy) way of preserving the undo stack between sessions? I typically work with half a dozen tabs and 20-30 files open at any one time and whenever I need to reboot my machine then I do a :mksession and reload it when I come back. It is ridiculously useful, but I would love if the undo was stored too. Cheers, and sorry for asking this over-asked question again. Max Have you tried saving the swap file? While editing foo.txt, that file would normally be .foo.txt.swp. Normally, it is deleted when you quit vim. If you save and restore the swap file (and maybe also the version of the file before you started editing it) then I think you will be back where you started. :help swap-file Disclaimer: I have not tried this myself, and you *really* want to test this idea before using it on files that matter! HTH --Benji Fisher
Re: How to find a file.
I guess this may not be all you want, for example, if you want to search files in ~/src, now you got a file in ~/src/abc/def/. Then your current directory is ~/src/abc/def/. and when you need to search within ~/src again to find something in ~/src/ghi/jkl/., how to do that? I recommend a probably better approach, just create a filelist inside the ~/src, you can use the following command to create the file list: in ~/src: find . filelist okay, now each time you want to search for file, just open the filelist, and search for the filename, when you've got the desired file, use gf to open the file. You can also map a shortcut-key to open the filelist. for example: I use f12 to open the file list, press f12 and now the filelist opens. use /foobar.txt and press enter to search for the file, if the file has multiple occorences, press n. when you've got the file, press gf and the file will be opened. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Zheng Da [EMAIL PROTECTED] 写于 2006-10-16 22:24:47: I have used your script, but it can't content me. I want to find the file under the current dir, its subdir or maybe its sub-subdir. So I hope while I'm inputting the filename, the popup menu should display the paths with the file, not the dir, containing the characters I input. -- With regards Zheng Da On 10/15/06, Hari Krishna Dara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 at 3:41pm, Zheng Da wrote: Hello. I want to open a file, and I know its name, but don't know the path. I want to use the command find. For example I want to open the file space.cc, and use the command :find space.cc. I know the file may be in the current directory, or the subdirectories, but always get the error E345: Cannot find file space.cc in path. I use the default path, it should be .,/usr/include,,. (I use Linux). So what's the problem? And how to open the file I want? You got the answer for using :find command already, but I would like to suggest you to try my LookupFile plugin that allows you to use the Vim7 popup completion to do this using custom tags files. http://www.vim.org//script.php?script_id=1581 -- HTH, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
