On 2007-05-17 at 20:38 +, Zach White wrote:
> I can't stand color syntax highlighting, myself. Every time I try to use
> it I get distracted by the changing colors every time I open or close some
> quoting method. And don't get me started on the problems when the file-type
> auto-detection fail
* Zach White [2007-05-17 22:45]:
> -Zach (Who's still upset that there's no way he can use nvi's
>multi-level undo model when stuck in vim)
Vim 7 keeps all undo points around and you can go to any of them
at any time, including going forward to a different thread of
changes than the one y
Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:48:01PM -0700, Robert G.
Werner wrote:
> Of course, I hate how Vim helpfully brings up the help screen on my
> laptop when I hit f1 instdead of escape but that is a hardware hate.
That pain, I can help you with. Add the following two lines t
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:24:38PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
> Of course, this is irrelevant in the real world. It continues to
> amaze me how many students I see in the lab using vi without
> ":set syntax=on" or Emacs without "(blink-cursor-mode -1)",
> having not even tried to reduce the pain.
jrod...@hate.spamportal.net writes:
> Right like a turing complete scripting language that only
> exists inside the one editor and nowhere else, has terrible
> syntax and clunky usage.
You see, the beauty of a Turing-complete scripting language is
that it transmutes software hate into self-loathin
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:23:07PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
> "Jarkko Hietaniemi" writes:
>
> > On 5/17/07, David Cantrell wrote:
> >> I had to use strace, awk, md5sum and diff. To configure an editor.
> >
> > Serves vi(m) users right.
>
> Yeah, your editor should focus on being an Editor.
Sean O'Rourke wrote:
"Jarkko Hietaniemi" writes:
On 5/17/07, David Cantrell wrote:
I had to use strace, awk, md5sum and diff. To configure an editor.
Serves vi(m) users right.
Yeah, your editor should focus on being an Editor. Anything
else, like being an Editor Configurer, is just bloa
"Jarkko Hietaniemi" writes:
> On 5/17/07, David Cantrell wrote:
>> I had to use strace, awk, md5sum and diff. To configure an editor.
>
> Serves vi(m) users right.
Yeah, your editor should focus on being an Editor. Anything
else, like being an Editor Configurer, is just bloat. After all,
Uni
On 5/17/07, David Cantrell wrote:
I, like all RIGHT and PROPER people, use a vi-derivative for my coding,
as only tests, paedos, and smokers use emacs. Specifically, I'm
using vim 7.0.
I recently intsalled a shiny new Debian Etch on my desktop at work.
After a little fiddling with my ~
Tony Finch wrote:
Recompile with a bigger ARG_MAX or NCARG.
Recompile /what/ - the Linux kernel? Recompile /where/ - in the whole frigging
*universe*? What about programs that are supposed to work on (GASP) several *n*x
boxes (some of which are *not* Linux)?
What about precompiled Linux d
Yossi Kreinin wrote:
There's this "Argument list too long" nonsense. It makes me work in a
~/X directory, because that way my pathnames shorten to an extent
enough to execute the build commands of a brain-crippled Makefile.
"It is an architecture limitation of UNIX-like operating systems.
Ho
I, like all RIGHT and PROPER people, use a vi-derivative for my coding,
as only tests, paedos, and smokers use emacs. Specifically, I'm
using vim 7.0.
I recently intsalled a shiny new Debian Etch on my desktop at work.
After a little fiddling with my ~/.vimrc it does exactly what I want
w
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
>
> However, before I start raising funds, I would be very curious to find out
> about a different, not entirely idiotic workaround.
Recompile with a bigger ARG_MAX or NCARG.
Tony.
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There's this "Argument list too long" nonsense. It makes me work in a ~/X
directory, because that way my pathnames shorten to an extent enough to execute
the build commands of a brain-crippled Makefile.
This ~/X business made me worry, since in the near future I might run out of
characters aga
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