Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: P> Depending on _typical_ terminal heights (100 lines?), this [history P> setting] seems to be a bit high. But I assume zsh handles the "h" P> alias similarly to the csh, where an alias is defined (system-wide in P> /etc/csh.cshrc or p

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:58:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > I also assume the zsh has some settings o

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:32 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > my zsh does a default to 10 or so history

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:32 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > my zsh does a default to 10 or so history

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:51:32 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > my zsh does a default to 10 or so history with just > > % h > > I was trying to remember how to set it to ,, say, 100. Depending on _typical_ terminal heights (100 lines?), this seems to be a bit high. But I assume zs

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:47:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > dunno how you know im using the zsh, but yu

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:47:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > dunno how you know im using the zsh, but yup. This is because of my magical allknowinglyness. :-) You wrote: > > > pts/14 17:11 [5011] vi! > > > zsh: command not found: vi! ^^^ This gave me the impression you're using the Z she

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:06:00AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:21:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public servic

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:21:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:23:27AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:27:41 -0700, Gary

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:23:27AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:27:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > am I misremembering this feature, or didnt

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14:27:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > am I misremembering this feature, or didnt vi have a syntax where > you typed something like: > > % vi[#] or % vi [-2] [or vi [-N] > > to repeat the last or the second from last command? with my > shoul

minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Gary Kline
Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. folks, am I misremembering this feature, or didnt vi have a syntax where you typed something like: % vi[#] or % vi [-2] [or vi [-N]