Re: Vim Wiki - Tip Page Formatting Deadline

2007-05-17 Thread Martin Krischik
Am Mittwoch 16 Mai 2007 schrieb John Beckett: > Thinking about how a wiki works shows that keeping tip numbers > is doomed. First, there is no auto-increment id, and as you > point out, there is no reasonable way to automate fixes. But do we need an id? - each tip will have a page name which will

Re: enabling cyrillic character display support

2007-05-17 Thread Yongwei Wu
Hi Tony, On 17/05/07, A.J.Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yongwei Wu wrote: [...] > If you are courageous enough see a real-world example of complicated > multi-language support, check my _vimrc at: > > http://wyw.dcweb.cn/download.asp?path=vim&file=_vimrc.txt (as text) or > http://wyw.dcw

Re: Vim Wiki - Tip Page Formatting Deadline

2007-05-17 Thread John Beckett
Martin Krischik wrote: But do we need an id? - each tip will have a page name which will be unique. IMHO you are correct - we should NOT have a tip id. I'm not sure what is feasible, but here is my ideal: - Import current tip_nr into the template. - Display tip_nr near the top of the tip, very

Re: Vim Wiki - Wiki Template Proposal

2007-05-17 Thread John Beckett
Martin Krischik wrote: Well, on most Wikibooks comments are seldom cleaned up. They are just left to rot. And since there are not on the main page it does not matter. I see what you mean. If that were to happen with the Vim wiki then it would be really ugly (i.e. if junk comments were left inde

Vim Wiki - Tip id and URL

2007-05-17 Thread John Beckett
It is important for us to have an easy way to refer to tips, and the URL of each tip should be simple (and not wrap in an email). Below is some detail for a proposal to achieve this. What does everyone think? Have a script scrape tip titles from the current Vim Tips. Create a plain text file wit

Re: Vim Wiki - Tip id and URL

2007-05-17 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
John Beckett wrote: It is important for us to have an easy way to refer to tips, and the URL of each tip should be simple (and not wrap in an email). Below is some detail for a proposal to achieve this. What does everyone think? Have a script scrape tip titles from the current Vim Tips. Create

Re: embedable vim?

2007-05-17 Thread Marc Weber
> either natively as (IIRC) kde applications do, or by means of an extensions > (as seveal other posts mention doing for Firefox). Other browsers (such as > IE IIRC) simply don't support any external editor. Shouldn't be that hard to tell AutoHotkey to copy paste the text to vim and back .. (win

RE: Vim Wiki - Tip Page Formatting Deadline

2007-05-17 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
>>Is there any equivalent to javascript's document.lastModified? >>Can create a "serial number" based on the date of submission, then >>rearrange by fields to a sortable ID, eg 2007.05.15.23.53 for a tip >>created yesterday at 23:53. >>Don't need dots, or hyphens, or anything, as 2007051523353 woul

RE: Vim Wiki - Tip Page Formatting Deadline

2007-05-17 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
>In fact: Almost nothing was discussed longer then 3 days and >if there was no *stiff* opposition then one of the Authors >went ahead and just did it. And lots of stuff was never >discussed: Somebody just did it and the other fell in line - >plainly because it was a good idea. Hey, that's what *I*

Re: How to efficiently type polytonic Greek?

2007-05-17 Thread Guido Milanese
Sorry to answer so late. I use (g)vim to write my papers and books, with a lot of quotations from ancient Greek. It works like a charm! Steps: * make sure to set encoding to utf8 * see if you have a keymap called (exactly) greek_utf-8.vim. In my system (Linux Mandriva) it is /usr/share/vim/keyma

Re: Vim Wiki - Wiki Template Proposal

2007-05-17 Thread fREW
On 5/17/07, John Beckett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Martin Krischik wrote: > Well, on most Wikibooks comments are seldom cleaned up. > They are just left to rot. And since there are not on > the main page it does not matter. I see what you mean. If that were to happen with the Vim wiki then it w

Re: embedable vim?

2007-05-17 Thread fREW
On 5/17/07, Marc Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > either natively as (IIRC) kde applications do, or by means of an extensions > (as seveal other posts mention doing for Firefox). Other browsers (such as > IE IIRC) simply don't support any external editor. Shouldn't be that hard to tell AutoHot

Problems with netrw scp

2007-05-17 Thread David Rennalls
Hi, I'm having some trouble getting netrw v109(vim 7.1 win WinXP) working with scp. :Nread scp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/hosts ..results in the following errors. **warning** (netrw) unable to comply with your request Enclosing the URL with double quotes makes no difference either. :messages "Ne

"b" (move cursor one word back) has annoying delay

2007-05-17 Thread Harlan Harris
Hi, I'm using a freshly compiled version of Vim 7.1 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (U5) machine. In both this version of Vim, and in the factory-installed version (6.3), there is a weird behavior where the "b" key, which sends the cursor back a word, has an annoying delay. The "w" key does not

Re: "b" (move cursor one word back) has annoying delay

2007-05-17 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
Harlan Harris wrote: Hi, I'm using a freshly compiled version of Vim 7.1 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (U5) machine. In both this version of Vim, and in the factory-installed version (6.3), there is a weird behavior where the "b" key, which sends the cursor back a word, has an annoying delay

path shortcuts (variables?) on commandline?

2007-05-17 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Can anyone recommend any nice shortcuts for entering common long paths on the commandline? My situation: I am running on Windows XP and often end up typing :e c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/User/Desktop/foo/bar/... I currently use Tab/completion to get each path element, but this is still very slow

RE: path shortcuts (variables?) on commandline?

2007-05-17 Thread Timothy Adams
I'd just use an abbreviation :cabbr desktop c:\docume~1\user\Desktop Then you can just do: :e desktop\sub\sub\sub\file.ext When you hit the \ (or space, or whatever) after desktop the abbreviation will fill in w/ c:\etc Be warned that this will do so whenever you type desktop in command mode,

RE: embedable vim?

2007-05-17 Thread Timothy Adams
A lot of suggestions have been mentioned, but I didn't see the mozex extension for firefox/mozilla mentioned. You can set an editor for textareas, view source, intercept mailto: links, and a lot more. http://mozex.mozdev.org/development.html -Original Message- From: Franco Saliola [mail

Re: Problems with netrw scp

2007-05-17 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
David Rennalls wrote: Hi, I'm having some trouble getting netrw v109(vim 7.1 win WinXP) working with scp. :Nread scp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/hosts ..results in the following errors. **warning** (netrw) unable to comply with your request Enclosing the URL with double quotes makes no differenc

Re: path shortcuts (variables?) on commandline?

2007-05-17 Thread Maciej Kalisiak
Perfect! Thanks! On 5/17/07, Timothy Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :cabbr desktop c:\docume~1\user\Desktop

Re: "b" (move cursor one word back) has annoying delay

2007-05-17 Thread Harlan Harris
Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: Sounds like you have a map beginning with the letter b; so, what happens when: :map b Do you have any such mappings? If so, vim is waiting a bit to see if the rest of the map is going to be typed. Ahah, you are correct! I changed that map to start with a less

Remapping mouse-wheel

2007-05-17 Thread Waters, Bill
Is there a way to map mouse-wheel to CTRL-mouse-wheel? I tried this... map map nnoremap

Re: wiki hosting

2007-05-17 Thread Dmitriy Yamkovoy
BTW: With a tabbed browser and a fast internet connection you can rename 10 pages per minute - I once rename a 200 page book from "Programming:Ada" to "Ada Programming". You could probably do this faster with Perl::Mechanize and a little scripting :D -dpy

Re: "b" (move cursor one word back) has annoying delay

2007-05-17 Thread Micah Cowan
Harlan Harris wrote: > Charles E Campbell Jr wrote: >> Sounds like you have a map beginning with the letter b; so, what >> happens when: >> >> :map b >> >> Do you have any such mappings? If so, vim is waiting a bit to see if >> the rest of the map >> is going to be typed. > > Ahah, you are corre

Re: Problems with netrw scp

2007-05-17 Thread David Rennalls
On 5/17/07, Charles E Campbell Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's some pointers: * Did you know that you don't need to use :Nread? Just :r ... would be fine. no I didn't. Thanks. * Drop the second colon from scp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/hosts AND I suspect you want /etc/hosts, not /ro

launching vim from eclipse

2007-05-17 Thread y m
In Visual Studio, you can use the visvim ole plugin to open the currently displayed file in vim. Is there a similar plugin available for eclipse? I see that there is a viPlugin for eclipse which lets you edit files directly in eclipse using vi keystrokes. However, I want to externally launch vim f

Re: Vim and email quoting

2007-05-17 Thread Suresh Govindachar
Benjamin Esham wrote: > fREW wrote: >> On 5/12/07, Troy Piggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> * Timothy Knox is quoted & my replies are inline below : >>> I use vim to write my outgoing email, and for the most part, it rocks. Thanks to all the folks who have written module

Re: Vim and email quoting

2007-05-17 Thread Benjamin Esham
Suresh Govindachar wrote: Benjamin Esham wrote: I use the non-Vim-friendly Apple Mail for my e-mail, but I use pan and Vim for Usenet; here is the function that's called whenever I set filetype=usenet: [snip] The second function does a beautiful job of reflowing paragraphs to take up the

Re: launching vim from eclipse

2007-05-17 Thread fREW
On 5/17/07, y m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In Visual Studio, you can use the visvim ole plugin to open the currently displayed file in vim. Is there a similar plugin available for eclipse? I see that there is a viPlugin for eclipse which lets you edit files directly in eclipse using vi keystrokes

Vim71: undocumented change for netrw plugin.

2007-05-17 Thread panshizhu
Hello vimmers: I am one of the users who want the default file explorer to be explorer.vim in Vim 6.x rather than netrw. And from line 78 of pi_netrw.txt I got the following: > You can avoid loading this plugin by setting the "loaded_netrw" variable > in your <.vimrc> file: > > :let load

Re: How to efficiently type polytonic Greek?

2007-05-17 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Guido Milanese wrote: [...] Important: use a font with a decently complete set of chars. In Linux you should be able to use Gentium, I believe, but personaly I prefer a fixed font and use "Bitstream\ Vera\ Sans\ Mono" with excellent results. [...] Except in the GTK+2 version of gvim, variable-

Re: wiki hosting

2007-05-17 Thread Martin Krischik
Am Donnerstag 17 Mai 2007 schrieb Dmitriy Yamkovoy: > > BTW: With a tabbed browser and a fast internet connection you can rename > > 10 pages per minute - I once rename a 200 page book from > > "Programming:Ada" to "Ada Programming". > > You could probably do this faster with Perl::Mechanize and a

Re: How to efficiently type polytonic Greek?

2007-05-17 Thread Guido Milanese
On Friday 18 May 2007 05:23, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Yes, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is a good-looking font. For any language > whose glyphs are not present, try Courier New if it exists on your system. > It is not so good-looking but it has a large number of different alphabets. > Not CJK double-wi