Re[2]: mbox format archive?

On Tue, 29 May 2007, "A.J.Mechelynck" apparently wrote: > Hmm... This post of mine seems to be eliciting two kinds > of reactions: "Me too, me too" and "Don't, you fool, he > may be a spammer harvesting addresses". > I think I'll leave it on the backburner for a while, > waiting for the situa

Re: OT: net neutrality comments to FCC

Someone wrote: > Here is the URL for submitting e-mail comments: > http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/email.html > I found it by starting at the FCC home page, www.fcc.gov > and following the link from the left side-bar labeled > "Filing Public Comments", "main". That page didn't have > 07-52, so I fo

OT: net neutrality comments to FCC

Apologies if this is too off topic! (And it mostly interests US residents, I think.) I am looking at this through the lens of securing my access to the Vim website. The FCC is accepting public comment on Docket 07-52, In the Matter of Broadband Industry Practices. Essential, large ISPs are reques

rst syntax file: grid tables not handled

The rst syntax file of 2006-04-19 does not recognize the end of grid tables. Is there an update that fixes this? Thank you, Alan Isaac

Re: problem loading Python dll

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Johan du Preez apparently wrote: > I have installed Python 2.5, but vim does not appear to see it? How do > I solve this one!. :h python-dynamic hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Vim Help for deleting alternate lines in text

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, (IST) Auro Ashish Saha apparently wrote: > i could not get any result But did you try :%norm jdd as suggested at http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html ?? Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Vim Help for deleting alternate lines in text

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Auro Ashish Saha apparently wrote: > Please help me to remove alternate lines from a text file. http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: restructured text syntax file problem

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, apparently wrote: > kib2.free.fr/temp/reST2.png No that does not do it. Copy this entire *line*: ``x`` is the problem. Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: moving buffer changes to new file?

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Lev Lvovsky apparently wrote: > I often times rename a file that I'm working on after I realize (or > am told ;) that renaming it is in order. Is there any way I can take > the changes to that "new" file from the buffer along with the new name? :h :saveas hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: restructured text syntax file problem

> Alan G Isaac a écrit : >> Single character literals are not handled correctly: >> for example, ``x`` will product highlighting of the >> subsequent text. On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, apparently wrote: > Mine is havingno problem at all : > see the screenshot here

restructured text syntax file problem

Single character literals are not handled correctly: for example, ``x`` will product highlighting of the subsequent text. Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re: indexing in a latex file

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, "C.G.Senthilkumar." apparently wrote: > Is there a script or some mechanism to do this > effeciently? For example, when I search a term, vim should > take the cursor to the term and prompt a confirmation(y/n) > to index that term. Upon (y) it should include > \index{search

display aberrations on Mac

I'm using Vim 7 on a Macbook Pro (Intel) with OS X 10.4.8. With gvim I'm seeing some aberrant display: the occasional character will only half or 3/4 drawn, and :redr does not fix it. (However moving the cursor across it in normal mode does fix it.) Is this a known problem, and is there a fix?

Re[2]: omnicompletion vs. old Ctrl-n

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Daniel Nogradi apparently wrote: > I guess I'll give vim 7 a try. Just hope > that my old .vimrc and ftplugins will keep working :) Vim 7 is great, but if you download 7.0 it has one problem that I have found very annoying: some maps are not properly unloaded a reloaded if

Re: vim | deleting end of lines inside a pattern

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, "Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" apparently wrote: > I would like to delete all end of lines (\n) inside a given pattern that > runs through a text. The pattern is like this: > > text1 \n > text2 \n > text3 \n > text4 \n > text5 \n > text6 \n > ... \n > Perhaps :g//.+1

Re: Mac Questions

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Brett Calcott apparently wrote: > I have just got a Macbook (switching from windows) and > have downloaded and compiled the latest version of Vim on > it. It all works fine, but I have a few questions. Would you mind outlining the steps you took for someone who is making t

Re: Enclosing current line in HTML tags

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Robert MannI apparently wrote: > What's the quickest way to enclose the current line the > cursor is on in, say, tags? Here's one approach: http://www.american.edu/econ/notes/html_xhb.vim hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: multi-mark

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yegappan Lakshmanan apparently wrote: > You can use the Vim7 location list feature to implement > the anonymous marks support. I do not think that is right, but perhaps I do not understand location lists correctly. My understanding is that a location list will reference l

Re: multi-mark

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Yakov Lerner apparently wrote: > I am looking for the "multi-marks" plugin. > I want to "mark" multilpe lines (not with 'a,'b,'c, but with > some kind of mark that can mark multiple lines), > then cycle through the marked lines. I believe the request for anonymous marks c

Re[4]: soft line breaks + limited width display?

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Matthew Gilbert apparently wrote: > "+ is selecting the CLIPBOARD register right? But I don't > see where the register is used. Sorry for being dense, but > it looks useful :-). Thanks _matt That's because it's missing a yank: gg"+yG hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: soft line breaks + limited width display?

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Bill McCarthy apparently wrote: > I see people have used this but what does gg"+G do? :h gg :h "+ :h G hth, Alan Isaac

Re: soft line breaks + limited width display?

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Karsten Gerloff apparently wrote: > I'm currently writing a lot of text in vim that will later need to > transfer to a word processor (OpenOffice 2.0 in this case). OT: If you use reStructuredText you can use rst2html and have OpenOffice open the HTML document. (Alternativ

Re[2]: Bug? (Re: local map and vmap not cleared when buffer deleted)

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Bill McCarthy apparently wrote: > I repeated this starting with a file name "file": > gvim -u NONE -i NONE -N file > Here I see what appears to be a cosmetic bug. I am seeing: > i @ > v @ I am using Vim 7.0. Starting with gvim -u NONE

local map and vmap not cleared when buffer deleted

> Alan G Isaac wrote: >> Suppose I have defined:: >> imap ;fn %\footnote{%}%-i >> in my tex_ai.vim file in my local ftplugin directory. >> I create the buffer ``:e c:\temp.tex`` >> then I leave the buffer by deleting it ``:bd`` >> and then later

Re[2]: your best vim scripting tip

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Michael Phillips apparently wrote: > What does the I-CTRL_R command do? :h i_ctrl-r hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: sourcing

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Bill McCarthy apparently wrote: > Instead of using an autocmd, you could place those maps in a > file called tex.vim in your local ftplugin directory. Place > this single line in such a file: > map :echo 'It worked!' OK, I did this. But there is still a problem. Su

Re: Hiding lines

It rather sounds like you want THE's 'all' command: http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/doc/comm/ALL.html I think the view expressed on this list in the past is something like: see :h :global I am not claiming this is a complete response. Indeed, I believe your request interacts with anot

Re[2]: vim is too smart for its own good

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Tim Chase apparently wrote: > There's always "ed"... > -more ubiquitous in its presence > -consistent in its behavior > -powerful > -tools like "diff" interoperate with it > -it can be used on a slow TTY > -can be used on with a one-line display > -smaller executable s

Re[2]: ANN: vcscommand beta 4 (supercedes cvscommand)

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Bob Hiestand apparently wrote: > the advantages are that you don't have to leave > your text editor (which for me is key, as most of my time at a > computer is spent using VIM. Also, by capturing the output of version > control commands within VIM, it is much easier to nav

Re[2]: Paragraph formatting options

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, apparently wrote: > but what is this > gwap (or :gwap ..) command? > Seems it is not recognized by Vim 6.3 :h gw Enjoy. Alan Isaac

Re: Paragraph formatting options

Try this: set fo+=w and then leave no white space after your outdented header. Then you can gwap to your hearts content. Not quite what you asked for ... hth, Alan Isaac

Re: ANN: vcscommand beta 4 (supercedes cvscommand)

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Bob Hiestand apparently wrote: > http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=90 I see that many people are liking this plugin. Could you please add a few details about how it works and why it is better than just using the SVN executables. Thank you, Alan Isaac

Re: use '/' to find both upper and lower case instances

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Luke Vanderfluit apparently wrote: > I have a need to use '/' to find something in a file, but I wish it to ignore > case. :h \c hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: windows unicode (iso10646-1) font for vim

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, (BST) Georg Dahn apparently wrote: > I personally need Latin only and use Consolas: > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en > > which (IMHO) is a great font. "This package is only intended for licensed

Re[2]: language display problem

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, "A.J.Mechelynck" apparently wrote: > MingLiU for East-Asian ideograms. http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/fonts.htm Unfortunately, the only way of legally obtaining it now appears to be by enabling Traditional Chinese support in Windows. Microsoft used to offer

Re: pasting the name of the file in the text of the file

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, olahjulcsi apparently wrote: > I have been trying to find a way to paste the name of the > file inside the text of the file. In insert mode: ctrl-r% hth, Alan Isaac

Re[4]: filename completion and filereadable

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Matthew Winn apparently wrote: > But "..." versus '...' is just as explicit. Ah, that explains why the question keeps coming up on this list and never in a Python forum ... Or not? > In fact, apart from Python and XML I can't think of any > languages that don't make a dist

Re[2]: filename completion and filereadable

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, "A.J.Mechelynck" apparently wrote: > :let q=r"like this" Yes, this would be parsed in a new way. I wager this would bite very few (since it is horrible style beyond belief). Cheers, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: filename completion and filereadable

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, "A.J.Mechelynck" apparently wrote: > What is "the raw string notation from Python" ? > IMHO it would only create one additional type of string. We already have > single-quoted 'raw' strings in Vim, yet many people constantly forget > that double-quoted strings in Vim are "c

Re[2]: filename completion and filereadable

>> Am 09.08.2006 14:08:04 schrieb Yakov Lerner: >>> Looks like an input() bug to me. > On 8/9/06, Alexander 'boesi' Bösecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To me it looks even more strange. I've tested a bit more. >> :echo filereadable("G:\Projekte\CS Simple\run.pyw") On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Yako

Re[2]: Running python scripts from Vim

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, James Vega apparently wrote: > You might be interested in trying out PIDA (http://pida.berlios.de/). Does this install readily under Windows? Thanks, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: Another regular expression substitute question

>> :[EMAIL PROTECTED](\S\+\)[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, (MDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently wrote: > I know you lose some generality with this solution... > :%s/.*\(data_\d*\.dat\).*/\1 > but it looks a little easier on the eyes. Any cons > to doing it this way? One extra charact

Re: Another regular expression substitute question

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Xiaoshen Li apparently wrote: > Thank you very much for all your responses. I am sorry. My file is a > little different now. It is like following: > 1 data_34.dat pre= -7872.11914060 post= -7812.80517600 diff= 59.31396460 > 2 data_5.dat pre= -7986.76147466 post= -7926.940

Re[2]: colors

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Bill Hollingsworth apparently wrote: > I do not have time to invest in learning how to program > a new color scheme. My only solution right now is to try > to uninstall VIM and reinstall the old version. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~maverick/VimColorSchemeTest/index-html.html h

Re[2]: Support for the idutils in vim?

Slightly OT: >> On 6/1/06, Timothy Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any support for the GNU idutils >>> in vim? For those not familiar >>> with the idutils, they are somewhat like ctags, only faster? > "Yegappan Lakshmanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Scroll up/down feature is missing in Microsoft Windows

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006, Xiaoshen Li apparently wrote: > I use vim a lot in Linux. Recently I start to use vim in Microsoft > Windows. One feature lost in Microsoft Windows platform is: pressing > Ctrl, Alt and E together will move the text down (pressing Ctrl, Alt and > Y together will move the te

Re[2]: VIM script replacement question

On Thu, 25 May 2006, "Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" apparently wrote: > 00 must become 0 0 The original replacement I sent had these spaces in it: :g/./s/^\(\d\+\)\s\+\([01]\)\s\+\([01]\)\s\+\([01]\)\s\+\([01]\)\s*/#\1\r\2 \3\r\4 \5 Look after \2 and after \4 hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: VIM script replacement question

On Thu, 25 May 2006, "Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" apparently wrote: > No, I used %. > Got them same problem with Tim's code Something is not right ... Try using :g/./s/ instead of :%s/ and see what happens. hth, Alan Isaac

Re[2]: VIM script replacement question

On Thu, 25 May 2006, "Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" apparently wrote: > The replacement didn't occur to the whole file. You must have forgotten the '%'. hth, Alan Isaac

Re: VIM script replacement question

On Thu, 25 May 2006, "Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos" apparently wrote: > In detail: 1.I want in front of the number in the first > column to add "#" , then change line after the value 2. > change line after 3rd column 3. change line after 5th > column 4. repeat all three steps %s/^\(\d\+\)\s\+\([

Re: Please help

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Tien Pham apparently wrote: > I have a very large file containing 7000 lines of data in > a single column. Below is a sample. Many of them are > 7 digit numbers and others are 8 digit numbers. For those > 7 digit numbers, I need to add number 0 at the beginning > of it.

Re[2]: Tables.

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Gary apparently wrote: > Some very basic markup language that provides headers, > paragraphs, lists, and tables and that could be easily > translated to html, pdf, postscript, and simple text would > be well-adapted to my needs. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html h

Re: :bd should NOT close the Window

On Fri, 12 May 2006, Salman Khilji apparently wrote: > When you have a window split, issuing a :bd command > closes the buffer AND one panes of the split window as > well. Just leave it open. To edit newfile.txt in it :e newfile.txt To then immediately get rid of oldfile.txt :bd# hth, Alan Is

Re[2]: VIM: map seq.s must be typed slowly

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Thomas Mellman apparently wrote: > Thank you. In fact, that's what my sequences map to. > It's just that I find that I can type [v and ]v faster > then I can type the # and * (which are shifted on a US > keyboard). Too fast, I'm afraid. But that's new (within > the las