macguitabline patch v4

2006-07-18 Thread Nicolas Weber
Hi, here's the fourth version of the guitabline patch for mac os x. I removed some dead code, and, more importantly, changed the code that it runs on 10.2 - 10.3 without changes (I could only test 10.3, though). There was a call to a 10.4-only function (DataBrowserChangeAttributes()),

missing help tag c_CTRL-]

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Dear Bram, I think there ought to be a help tag for c_CTRL-] (either synonymous with i_CTRL-] , resending to it, or with a similar text). What do you think? Abbreviations are terminated the same way in Insert and Command-line modes aren't they? Best regards, Tony.

Re: Gvim for KDE

2006-07-18 Thread Matt Sicker
On Monday 17 July 2006 03:40, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Dnia poniedziałek, 17 lipca 2006 17:09, Charles E Campbell Jr napisał: As I recall, the vim7 kde port was dropped because there was no maintainer for the port. I'm not a KDE user myself, so I'm not a candidate, but perhaps if you

Re: Gvim for KDE

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Matt Sicker wrote: On Monday 17 July 2006 03:40, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Dnia poniedziałek, 17 lipca 2006 17:09, Charles E Campbell Jr napisał: As I recall, the vim7 kde port was dropped because there was no maintainer for the port. I'm not a KDE user myself, so I'm not a candidate, but

Re: missing help tag c_CTRL-]

2006-07-18 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Tony Mechelynck wrote: I think there ought to be a help tag for c_CTRL-] (either synonymous with i_CTRL-] , resending to it, or with a similar text). What do you think? Abbreviations are terminated the same way in Insert and Command-line modes aren't they? Right. I'll add the tag and

Re: colors

2006-07-18 Thread panshizhu
If you find the syntax file for Vim 6.4, and put it into your own .vim directory, you may get the colors before. If you want to change it, just copy the syntax file into your own .vim directory and edit it. -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606 Bill Hollingsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on

test if insert mode

2006-07-18 Thread Eric Smith
How do I implement a conditional to test if in insert or normal mode? Thanks -- Eric Smith

Re: test if insert mode

2006-07-18 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 7/18/06, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I implement a conditional to test if in insert or normal mode? There is funciton mode(), but it might not work for you. But see cautionary sentence at the end of :help mode(). People reported problems. if mode() == 'i' in insert mode

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
David Purton wrote: Hi all, I gather that the vim7 xml omnicomplete needs a data file to work - which is fair enough, since you can get all the attributes as well this way. But, how can I get a generic xml omnifunction system where vim will just close the last open tag for me. eg, at present,

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony and Chip, Yes indeed. When processing with my test there was a local $HOME/.vimrc file. First case: without line filetype plugin on in $HOME/.vimrc file. Second case: with line filetype plugin on in $HOME/.vimrc file. In both cases: no $HOME/.vim/filetype.vim

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread julien . r . nguyen
Hi Tony, That's fine, thanks. When I have some time, I'll try and have a look at the script in detail. If I have further questioning I'll then directly contact the maintainer. Regards, Julien Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 07/18/2006 01:52 PM To:Julien 3 NGUYEN cc:drchip, vim

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, That's fine, thanks. When I have some time, I'll try and have a look at the script in detail. If I have further questioning I'll then directly contact the maintainer. Regards, Julien A last word of caution (well, maybe it should have been first): don't

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes indeed. When processing with my test there was a local $HOME/.vimrc file...snip In the second case, the Ctrl-] shortcut echos :call JumpToTag_ada('') on the command line. The :verbose map C-] echos: n C-] *@:call JumpToTag_ada('')CR on the command line.

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes indeed. When processing with my test there was a local $HOME/.vimrc file...snip In the second case, the Ctrl-] shortcut echos :call JumpToTag_ada('') on the command line. The :verbose map C-] echos: n C-] *@:call

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread julien . r . nguyen
Ok. Thanks to both of you. I'll have a look in the detail about how to properly map a command as you suggest. As for the choice of the right file to edit, do not worry, I do not have the permissions to edit the $VIMRUNTIME directory :-D At least we have got a clean Linux Box. As for my problem,

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread Mikolaj Machowski
Dnia wtorek, 18 lipca 2006 06:23, David Purton napisał: Hi all, I gather that the vim7 xml omnicomplete needs a data file to work - which is fair enough, since you can get all the attributes as well this way. But, how can I get a generic xml omnifunction system where vim will just close

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread Mikolaj Machowski
Dnia wtorek, 18 lipca 2006 13:28, A.J.Mechelynck napisał: You can also assing a single-key shortcut for it, e.g. :imap F12 C-XC-O to use F12 instead of Ctrl-X plus Ctrl-O I have swapped CapsLock and left Control and use: imap C-O C-XC-O Exteremely handy :) m.

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread hermitte
Hello, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the plugin should be using: (untested, as I don't use Ada myself) if !hasmapto('PlugJumpToTag_ada') nno unique buffer c-] PlugJumpToTag_ada endif nmap silent script PlugJumpToTag_ada :call JumpToTag_ada('')cr

Re: netrw with hiding

2006-07-18 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Mon 17-Jul-06 9:10am -0600, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Bill McCarthy wrote: (concerning updating to netrw v102i) After some struggling to get the .vba file, it installed nicely in my vimfiles/ directory. It didn't work at all until I removed the v98 distribution files:

Re: posting to vim

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Jason Weber wrote: Can one of you regular posters tell my how I can successfully post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried my regular email, as well as the exact email I receive postings on. I also reapplied for a new account on the same address and posted again. I still don't see anything showing up

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Dnia wtorek, 18 lipca 2006 06:23, David Purton napisał: Hi all, I gather that the vim7 xml omnicomplete needs a data file to work - which is fair enough, since you can get all the attributes as well this way. But, how can I get a generic xml omnifunction system where

Re: colors

2006-07-18 Thread Marshall Abrams
As a devotee of vim, I want to put in a vote for trying to make new releases violate fewer rather than more of existing users' assumptions (although I know that there are always tradeoffs). Why should the default color scheme suddenly change when one upgrades? (Hmm maybe fire suits should go

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] the plugin should be using: (untested, as I don't use Ada myself) if !hasmapto('PlugJumpToTag_ada') nno unique buffer c-] PlugJumpToTag_ada endif nmap silent script PlugJumpToTag_ada :call

Re: ftplugin not detected

2006-07-18 Thread hermitte
A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The .vimrc is not suited to buffer-local definitions. One of the best solution, IMHO, is to have a ftplugin, dedicated to settings and options, that overides default settings. When the definitions come from a standard ftplugin, just drop

Re: Website Sign-up

2006-07-18 Thread @ Rocteur CC
Perhaps out of respect for the people and the skill of the people who are knowledgeable enough and have the skills to contribute material to the site that benefit the rest of us so much. The site that people who ask this kind of question just slurp up and devour the information but do not

Re: colors

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Marshall Abrams wrote: As a devotee of vim, I want to put in a vote for trying to make new releases violate fewer rather than more of existing users' assumptions (although I know that there are always tradeoffs). Why should the default color scheme suddenly change when one upgrades? (Hmm

www.vim.org ?

2006-07-18 Thread Yakov Lerner
Did http://www.vim.org - http://vim.sf.net redirection stopped working ? Yakov

Re: posting to vim

2006-07-18 Thread Jason Weber
Jason Weber wrote: Can one of you regular posters tell my how I can successfully post to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried my regular email, as well as the exact email I receive postings on. I also reapplied for a new account on the same address and posted again. I still don't see anything

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread Karl Guertin
On 7/18/06, David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, how can I get a generic xml omnifunction system where vim will just close the last open tag for me. It's not the vim7 way, but I use Devin Weaver's xmledit [1]. I strongly prefer automatically closing tags as they're created. [1]

Re: www.vim.org ?

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Yakov Lerner wrote: Did http://www.vim.org - http://vim.sf.net redirection stopped working ? Yakov Dunno. Here, http://www.vim.org/ and http://vim.sourceforge.net/ give identical pages, except for the contents of the URL bar. OTOH, http://vim.sf.net/ redirects to

Re: posting to vim

2006-07-18 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Jason Weber wrote: As for the spam folder, I meant does anyone admin'ing the list look through the rejects to see if anyone is making honest mistakes? Imagining the mountains of spam that must come through, I'm guessing no. That's ok. As I understand things, vim.sf.net is minimally

Re: posting to vim

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Jason Weber wrote: [...] As for the spam folder, I meant does anyone admin'ing the list look through the rejects to see if anyone is making honest mistakes? Imagining the mountains of spam that must come through, I'm guessing no. That's ok. No complaints, now that I see what's going on. --

Re: posting to vim

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Jason Weber wrote: As for the spam folder, I meant does anyone admin'ing the list look through the rejects to see if anyone is making honest mistakes? Imagining the mountains of spam that must come through, I'm guessing no. That's ok. As I understand things,

Re: www.vim.org ?

2006-07-18 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Yakov Lerner wrote: Did http://www.vim.org - http://vim.sf.net redirection stopped working ? Doesn't look like there is a problem now. Sourceforge does appear to have problems with their servers and they fix it quite slowly. -- How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity: 8. Don't use any

Re: How to distinguish [L]esen ( Readonly) from (L)öschen (Delete) ?

2006-07-18 Thread Andre Massing
Hi, Georg Dahn wrote: Hi! --- Andre Massing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probably a rather stupid question, but using german language makes it impossible for me to choose (L)öschen (Delete) instead of [L]esen (Readonly) by typing just l if there exists a swap-file from a chrashed session. This

Using :g to delete patterns that span multiple lines

2006-07-18 Thread Noah Spurrier
I used this pattern to select sections of test that belong to me when CVS or SVN generates a merge conflict. This pattern works fine: /^\_.\{-}===.*$/ I have search highlighting turned on and I can see the multiline patterns get highlighted as expected. Then I tried to delete all of those

Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread Noah Spurrier
When is someone going to write a VIM plugin for Mozilla Firefox? Yours, Noah :wq

Re: Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread mal content
On 18/07/06, Noah Spurrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When is someone going to write a VIM plugin for Mozilla Firefox? Yours, Noah :wq Excellent question. It'd be nice to be able to use vim to edit emails in google mail, for example. MC

Re: Using :g to delete patterns that span multiple lines

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Noah Spurrier wrote: I used this pattern to select sections of test that belong to me when CVS or SVN generates a merge conflict. This pattern works fine: /^\_.\{-}===.*$/ I have search highlighting turned on and I can see the multiline patterns get highlighted as expected. Then I tried

Re: Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Noah Spurrier wrote: When is someone going to write a VIM plugin for Mozilla Firefox? Yours, Noah :wq You can use Vim as external editor. Depending on which extensions you have, you can use it for userChrome.css, userContent.css, possibly even textareas in forms. Try the External Editor

Re: Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 7/19/06, Noah Spurrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When is someone going to write a VIM plugin for Mozilla Firefox? For Mozilla Mozilla browser, such thing exists -- http://mozex.mozdev.org (i say mozilla mozilla to distinguish it from mozilla firefox :-) For Firefox, I'm not sure. Yakov

Re: Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread Yakov Lerner
Right, mozex for firefox is at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/40/ But it seems not maintained for a long time Yakov On 7/19/06, Max Dyckhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From that very page: Mozex works with both Mozilla and Firebird. Interesting, I might try that out! Max -Original

Key mappings (was: Re: colors)

2006-07-18 Thread Marshall Abrams
On Jul 18, 2006, at 2:33 PM, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: Marshall Abrams wrote: As a devotee of vim, I want to put in a vote for trying to make new releases violate fewer rather than more of existing users' assumptions (although I know that there are always tradeoffs). Why should the default color

Re: Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread Andreas Poisel
* Yakov Lerner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060719 00:50]: Right, mozex for firefox is at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/40/ But it seems not maintained for a long time Try the ViewSourceWith (http://dafizilla.sourceforge.net/viewsourcewith/) extension. It supports editing textareas with a

RE: colors

2006-07-18 Thread Bill Hollingsworth
I am afraid that I have to agree with the complaint against drastically changing the default color scheme. As a sight-impaired user I relied on the color scheme that I was using before version 7.0. I did not create it myself; I developed my own convention for using the color scheme that was

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread David Purton
Hi Tony, On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 01:28:22PM +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: David Purton wrote: Hi all, I gather that the vim7 xml omnicomplete needs a data file to work - which is fair enough, since you can get all the attributes as well this way. But, how can I get a generic xml

Re: Generic xml omnicomplete

2006-07-18 Thread David Purton
Hi Mikolaj, On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:48:38PM +0200, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Dnia wtorek, 18 lipca 2006 06:23, David Purton napisał: Hi all, I gather that the vim7 xml omnicomplete needs a data file to work - which is fair enough, since you can get all the attributes as well this

RE: colors

2006-07-18 Thread Peter Hodge
Hi Bill, You do not have to program a new colorscheme. If you run this command: :source $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/hitest.vim ... you will get a window containing all the highlighting colours used by Vim. There's hundreds of colours listed, but there are prossibly only two that you want to change,

Re: Firefox and VIM?

2006-07-18 Thread Tom Purl
Mozex is still supported for Firefox. Here's where you can download it: * https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mozex107-en.html ...and here's how you can configure it with gnome-terminal: * http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/alanbur/20041007#making_those_long_weblog_posts ...and here's what's

Re: A card game for Vim

2006-07-18 Thread Hari Krishna Dara
First of all, thanks a lot for trying it, you are the only who showed enthusism until now :) See below for my responses. On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 at 12:02am, Mikolaj Machowski wrote: Dnia wtorek, 18 lipca 2006 03:57, Hari Krishna Dara napisa³: I am creating a new card game for Vim7 and wonder if

RE: colors

2006-07-18 Thread panshizhu
Peter Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2006.07.19 09:32:47: I can see your point and it is concerning that the colour change is enough to force you to go back to Vim 6.4, but Bram (or any software package author) must reserve privileges to change things and make them the default, otherwise