Re: Motions in visual(line|block)

2006-07-14 Thread Scott LaBounty
nnoys my Visual Studio colleagues is all right with me. Scott LaBounty Nexa Technologies, Inc. Max Dyckhoff wrote: I've noticed that using some motions - specifically "i{" and suchlike - will cancel a visual line/block and turn it into regular visual mode instead, which is rather a

Re: Motions in visual(line|block)

2006-07-14 Thread Scott LaBounty
Stewart, It looked like it was supposed to do something like that, but nothing seemed to happen with my Ruby file. I'll give it a shot in a C++ file and see what happens there. I still can't figure out what the "a" is doing though. Scott Stewart Johnson wrote: I did

Re: Motions in visual(line|block)

2006-07-14 Thread Scott LaBounty
Matthew, Got it. I was just looking at motion.txt (which I should have done in the first place) and just found that section. Amazing, I've been using vi/vim for ~20 years and there's still tons of stuff to find. I like the "How ... quaint". If fact, I'm off to tr

Re: Making :grep easier to use

2006-07-02 Thread thomas scott urban
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:32 -0800, David Frey wrote: > Often times I am looking at a file and there is a certain string sitting > infront of me that I want to grep for. > > Right now, I go into command mode and type > :grep "some_string" *.extension > > Is it possible to yank some_string and then

Re: Show/Hide Split Windows

2006-08-11 Thread thomas scott urban
In addition to the other responses, you can open the buffer you are working with in a new tab, then close the tab when you are done working on it in an exclusive manner. On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:44 -0700, Steve Amerige wrote: > Hi all, > > The ability to split windows is an absolute essential;