On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
> Lately, I do more email than anything else so I figured that using vim
> for email would be a good way to learn.
quite!
> And it's really got me curious because I'm sur
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:24:31PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
> > quite. i've learned to have a blank line going before i paste in
> > some goodies, to make it easier to delete if i've got autoindent
> > on (or paste off):
> >
> >
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 at 04:24 GMT, Bill Moseley penned:
>
> See why I miss ^U for undo? I imagined vim users had keys mapped to
> do all those common tasks.
>
I can't speak for others, but me, I'd rather type 4 or 5 characters near
the home row than have to use alt or control. Much easier to ex
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:27:11PM -0600, Will Trillich wrote:
> another, better, reason, is that ^W is already used for something
> else. i tried your mappings for a while last night (i've been
> using vi since about 1987, so there wasn't much hope) and darn
> near went mad.
Now you know how I fe
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 04:43 GMT, Bill Moseley penned:
>
> I could not agree more. I just need to become efficient enough with
> vim to feel like it's not more work than using another editor. With
> nano when I add some text to a paragraph and need to re-justify I just
> hit ^J. In Vim I'm hitt
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:24:34PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman
wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 at 04:43 GMT, Bill Moseley penned:
> > just need to become efficient enough with vim to feel like
> > it's not more work than using another editor.
>
> I love vim, but for the most basic tasks, it *is* more w
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:43:44PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> > > | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle
> > > | paste mode in Vim)
> >
> > another approach could be
> > :set pastetoggle=
> > and use F9 whether
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:58:43PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> > | Control-W to toggle wrap mode (which would be toggle paste mode in
> > | Vim)
>
> another approach could be
> :set pastetoggle=
> and use F9 whether in insert mode or not...
Oh, that's perfect. Thanks. Any reason not t
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:26:23PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> | I'm finding with vim as my mail editor I jump in and out of insert mode
> | for things that are kind of basic. I miss from Nano:
> |
> | Control-A/Contrl-E fo
Hallo!
* Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Try opera. It has the possibility to change the keybindings (down in
>> the .opera/*ini files). Basic bash/jed keystrokes like
>>+,+ works very well for me :)
> Okay, now I'm curious -- what is ?
Aehm: german for . ^a, ^k.
> I've tried ope
At Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:51:42 + (UTC),
Monique Y. Herman wrote:
[...]
> I've tried opera, though not recently ... my preferred choice
> is still mozilla (love the tabs!)
Try w3m. It has the visual equivalent of tabs. You can use your
favorite editor (mine's emacs) to fill forms..
--
To UN
On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:51:42PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:45:27 +0200, Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
> > Hallo!
> > * Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I'm afraid I don't know. I've been using vim long enough that I
> >> hit 'escape' reflex
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:13:58PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
| On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
| > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
| >
| > I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragraph to
| > 7
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:45:27 +0200, Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
> Hallo!
>
> * Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm afraid I don't know. I've been using vim long enough that I hit
>> 'escape' reflexively all the time ... including in web forms, which does
>> *not* have de
Hallo!
* Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm afraid I don't know. I've been using vim long enough that I hit
> 'escape' reflexively all the time ... including in web forms, which does
> *not* have desirable results.
Try opera. It has the possibility to change the keybindings (down
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:13:58 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
>>
>> I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragr
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 02:58:53PM +, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
>
> I just created the following last night. ctrl-j aligns the paragraph to
> 78 chars; ctrl-k makes it flow; use ':let my_tw=x' before ctrl-L
> to ali
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:51:35 -0700, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned:
>
> For example, I'd like to map ^J to gq} to warp a paragraph -- and it
> I'd like it to work in editing or command/normal mode. I'd also like to
> start in insert mode, I think. I might like ^A and ^E for start and en
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:34:11AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> In my .vimrc I have the following mail-specific settings:
> augroup Mail
> au!
> au FileType mail set tw=70 fo=tcrq2 nomodeline
> au FileType mail set comments+=n:\|
> " clear the old sig an
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 06:48:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| I'm looking for a little quick-start help with Vim (in converting from
| Nano).
|
| Can someone share their vim setup used with email? The features I care
| about
In my .vimrc I have the following mail-specific settings:
* Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030927 12:49]:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:48:22 -0700
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > - Justify text and respect any ">" quote marks. ^J in Nano.
> > operates on a paragraph (command "gq}", but mapped to ^J)
>
> First off, make sure you're in mail mode. That'
Also Sprach Steve Lamb
>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:48:22 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> - Justify text and respect any ">" quote marks. ^J in Nano.
>> operates on a paragraph (command "gq}", but mapped to ^J)
>First off, make sure you're in mail mode. That'll let vim know
>what format to expe
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:48:22 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - Justify text and respect any ">" quote marks. ^J in Nano.
> operates on a paragraph (command "gq}", but mapped to ^J)
First off, make sure you're in mail mode. That'll let vim know what
format to expect.
gq> will to go th
I'm looking for a little quick-start help with Vim (in converting from
Nano).
Can someone share their vim setup used with email? The features I care
about
- Justify text and respect any ">" quote marks. ^J in Nano.
operates on a paragraph (command "gq}", but mapped to ^J)
- Unjustify (w
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