Re: Column Selection
This is cool tip! Thanks Hari and Gerald. :) On 5/12/06, Gerald Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006 at 7:57pm, Gerald Lai wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006 at 6:37pm, Gerald Lai wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Suresh Govindachar wrote: Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote: I use the mswin behaviour and insert mode for editing (source mswin.vim and set insertmode in _vimrc ) To enable column selection I use the sequence: CTRL-O, g, CTRL-H and hold the SHIFT during the selection. Is it possible to simplify the above key sequence? Ideally I would like the cream-for-vim equivalent (ALT-SHIFT to enable column selection) - but I don't like ice-cream-s :-) Try creating the following insert-mode map: :imap A-c c-ogc-h and then using the sequence Alt-c and hold SHIFT etc. If you like it, place imap A-c c-ogc-h in your vimrc file. --Suresh I have these mappings in my vimrc that do a Visual Block mousedrag. It was a simple modification to make it a Select Block. Place in vimrc. nnoremap A-S-LeftMouse mzLeftMouseC-vg`zoC-g inoremap A-S-LeftMouse EscC-vg`^mzEscgiLeftMouseC-oC-vg`zoC-g vnoremap A-S-LeftDragLeftDrag vnoremap A-S-LeftMouse C-vLeftMousemzgvg`zC-g Holding down Alt-Shift and click-dragging with the left mouse button in any mode should start Select Block mode. HTH :) -- Gerald I created a tip about this long back: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 -- Thanks, Hari Yes, I remember being inspired by this tip to write the version I have now :) As the tip suggests, I didn't really want the first click to move the cursor and then start the Visual Block mode. I wanted a Visual Block highlighted from the cursor's original position to its destination upon the first click. Then I extended it so that it would work in Insert mode. This was tricky to get the Insert cursor positioning correct all the time. Very clever. I failed to see what you were doing on the first glance. I updated the tip with your version, hope you don't mind. -- Thanks, Hari Not at all :) Thanks Hari! -- Gerald -- Ed
RE: Column Selection
Elias Chatzigeorgiou indicates that while he can imap c-p as follows: imap C-p c-ogc-h he is unable to imap a-c What is the result of doing :verbose imap a-c If that doesn't give a clue, it might be something with your keyboard. --Suresh
[Fwd: Re: Column Selection]
I am using gVim 6.4 (on a Windoze platform). Is there any way to define ALT-anyting mappings on that platform? The result of :verbose imap a-c is i # C-OgC-H where # is a non-english symbol (actually the greek keyboard equivalent of c - the greek letter gamma - note that I am Greek, so I have also installed greek keyboard/fonts support). Come on gurus, I am sure you have a workaround for my case :-) Suresh Govindachar wrote: Elias Chatzigeorgiou indicates that while he can imap c-p as follows: imap C-p c-ogc-h he is unable to imap a-c What is the result of doing :verbose imap a-c If that doesn't give a clue, it might be something with your keyboard. --Suresh
RE: Column Selection
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Suresh Govindachar wrote: Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote: I use the mswin behaviour and insert mode for editing (source mswin.vim and set insertmode in _vimrc ) To enable column selection I use the sequence: CTRL-O, g, CTRL-H and hold the SHIFT during the selection. Is it possible to simplify the above key sequence? Ideally I would like the cream-for-vim equivalent (ALT-SHIFT to enable column selection) - but I don't like ice-cream-s :-) Try creating the following insert-mode map: :imap A-c c-ogc-h and then using the sequence Alt-c and hold SHIFT etc. If you like it, place imap A-c c-ogc-h in your vimrc file. --Suresh I have these mappings in my vimrc that do a Visual Block mousedrag. It was a simple modification to make it a Select Block. Place in vimrc. nnoremap A-S-LeftMouse mzLeftMouseC-vg`zoC-g inoremap A-S-LeftMouse EscC-vg`^mzEscgiLeftMouseC-oC-vg`zoC-g vnoremap A-S-LeftDragLeftDrag vnoremap A-S-LeftMouse C-vLeftMousemzgvg`zC-g Holding down Alt-Shift and click-dragging with the left mouse button in any mode should start Select Block mode. HTH :) -- Gerald
RE: Column Selection
On Thu, 11 May 2006 at 6:37pm, Gerald Lai wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Suresh Govindachar wrote: Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote: I use the mswin behaviour and insert mode for editing (source mswin.vim and set insertmode in _vimrc ) To enable column selection I use the sequence: CTRL-O, g, CTRL-H and hold the SHIFT during the selection. Is it possible to simplify the above key sequence? Ideally I would like the cream-for-vim equivalent (ALT-SHIFT to enable column selection) - but I don't like ice-cream-s :-) Try creating the following insert-mode map: :imap A-c c-ogc-h and then using the sequence Alt-c and hold SHIFT etc. If you like it, place imap A-c c-ogc-h in your vimrc file. --Suresh I have these mappings in my vimrc that do a Visual Block mousedrag. It was a simple modification to make it a Select Block. Place in vimrc. nnoremap A-S-LeftMouse mzLeftMouseC-vg`zoC-g inoremap A-S-LeftMouse EscC-vg`^mzEscgiLeftMouseC-oC-vg`zoC-g vnoremap A-S-LeftDragLeftDrag vnoremap A-S-LeftMouse C-vLeftMousemzgvg`zC-g Holding down Alt-Shift and click-dragging with the left mouse button in any mode should start Select Block mode. HTH :) -- Gerald I created a tip about this long back: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 -- Thanks, Hari __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: Column Selection
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Hari Krishna Dara wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006 at 6:37pm, Gerald Lai wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Suresh Govindachar wrote: Elias Chatzigeorgiou wrote: I use the mswin behaviour and insert mode for editing (source mswin.vim and set insertmode in _vimrc ) To enable column selection I use the sequence: CTRL-O, g, CTRL-H and hold the SHIFT during the selection. Is it possible to simplify the above key sequence? Ideally I would like the cream-for-vim equivalent (ALT-SHIFT to enable column selection) - but I don't like ice-cream-s :-) Try creating the following insert-mode map: :imap A-c c-ogc-h and then using the sequence Alt-c and hold SHIFT etc. If you like it, place imap A-c c-ogc-h in your vimrc file. --Suresh I have these mappings in my vimrc that do a Visual Block mousedrag. It was a simple modification to make it a Select Block. Place in vimrc. nnoremap A-S-LeftMouse mzLeftMouseC-vg`zoC-g inoremap A-S-LeftMouse EscC-vg`^mzEscgiLeftMouseC-oC-vg`zoC-g vnoremap A-S-LeftDragLeftDrag vnoremap A-S-LeftMouse C-vLeftMousemzgvg`zC-g Holding down Alt-Shift and click-dragging with the left mouse button in any mode should start Select Block mode. HTH :) -- Gerald I created a tip about this long back: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 -- Thanks, Hari Yes, I remember being inspired by this tip to write the version I have now :) As the tip suggests, I didn't really want the first click to move the cursor and then start the Visual Block mode. I wanted a Visual Block highlighted from the cursor's original position to its destination upon the first click. Then I extended it so that it would work in Insert mode. This was tricky to get the Insert cursor positioning correct all the time. -- Gerald
