Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Gene Kwiecinski wrote: Otherwise, do a '0' and ride the 'j' key a the way down a file. If the cursor doesn't budge, how would you be able to tell if it was a space or multiple spaces there, or a tab character? Well, if that information is truely useful and what you want to know, you can a

RE: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
>Try ':help listchars' Tnx. Kinda figured there was some option to do that, but never bothered to look up what it might be. Complacency and all... Good to know, but I still just like the cursor jiggling back'n'forth between col0 and col7 when I ride the down/'j' key. It's so much easier... :D

RE: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread spencer . x . collyer
Try ':help listchars' "Gene Kwiecinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16/04/2007 16:36 To: "Tim Chase" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cc: Subject: RE: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions) >>Otherwise, do a '0&#

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread Tim Chase
Well, if that information is truely useful and what you want to know, you can always :set list Displays "^I" just fine, but trashes actual indentation, at least for me (dunno if there's any magical 'vim' setting, like ":set keepindent" or something). Iow, I wanna be able to see

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread Jean-Rene David
* Gene Kwiecinski [2007.04.16 11:45]: > Displays "^I" just fine, but trashes actual > indentation, at least for me (dunno if there's > any magical 'vim' setting, like ":set > keepindent" or something). set listchars+=tab:>- -- JR

RE: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
>>Otherwise, do a '0' and ride the 'j' key a the way down a >>file. If the cursor doesn't budge, how would you be able to >>tell if it was a space or multiple spaces there, or a tab >>character? >Well, if that information is truely useful and what you want to >know, you can always > :s

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread Tim Chase
Otherwise, do a '0' and ride the 'j' key a the way down a file. If the cursor doesn't budge, how would you be able to tell if it was a space or multiple spaces there, or a tab character? Well, if that information is truely useful and what you want to know, you can always :set lis

RE: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-16 Thread Gene Kwiecinski
>By default Vim (and vi) has always put the cursor on the end of a >character that occupies multiple spaces on the screen. I don't know >why this decision was taken, unless it was to make it easier to spot >the difference between lines indented with tabs and those indented >with spaces, but the cur

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-14 Thread Andy Wokula
OnionKnight schrieb: I think I understand the difference now and my function is pretty neat now. function! HomeKey () let c = col(".") if c == 1 normal ^ else normal ^ if col(".") >= c normal 0

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-14 Thread Matthew Winn
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:44:26 -0700 (PDT), OnionKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No it didn't make a difference. When you put the cursor in normal mode over > a tab character, which spans several characters, the cursor will be > displayed at the end of that area whereas insert mode will put the

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-13 Thread OnionKnight
>I'm not entirely sure what you want here; does having > set nosol >in your <.vimrc> help? No it didn't make a difference. When you put the cursor in normal mode over a tab character, which spans several characters, the cursor will be displayed at the end of that area whereas insert mode will put

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-13 Thread Charles E Campbell Jr
OnionKnight wrote: * Is it possible to make the cursor stay at it's position even after scrolling it out of view? Not at the current time. * At the beginning of an indented line, why does normal mode put the cursor at the end of the first tab whereas insert mode is position at the beginning

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-13 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 4/13/07, OnionKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Couldn't find anything about command-mode. How is it different from normal mode? Dont confuse 'commandline mode' with 'command mode'. 'comand mode' is same as 'normal mode', they are synonyms [1]. 'commandline mode' is a mode which you enter

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-13 Thread OnionKnight
Easwy Yang wrote: > > If you use Vim in windows, see here: > http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1440 > http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=1314 > > In Unix, you can use > gvim --remote-tab-silent filename > But there's no way to do that for just the drag-and-drop operation in gvim? --

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-13 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
OnionKnight wrote: inside a script you're in "command-mode", and the command "w" you've meant to should be in "normal-mode", the correct way might be :normal w, :normal g0w, etc... Couldn't find anything about command-mode. How is it different from normal mode? Is each line treated as one comman

RE: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-12 Thread Eric Leenman
From: OnionKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:22:06 -0700 (PDT) [deleted] * I wanted the Home-button to act so that it first jumps to the first non-whitespace character of the current line (i.e. skip th

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-12 Thread panshizhu
OnionKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写于 2007-04-13 10:05:10: > Couldn't find anything about command-mode. How is it different from normal > mode? Is each line treated as one command? Like g0w is treated as "g0w" > instead of "g0" and "w"? Vim is a multi-mode editor, in different mode, it accepts comple

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-12 Thread OnionKnight
>inside a script you're in "command-mode", and the command "w" you've meant >to should be in "normal-mode", the correct way might be :normal w, :normal >g0w, etc... Couldn't find anything about command-mode. How is it different from normal mode? Is each line treated as one command? Like g0w is tre

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-12 Thread Easwy Yang
I can answer some of the questions. See below. 2007/4/13, OnionKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I've been thinking of migrating to using vim (gvim) but I'm running into lots of difficulties on the road I just can't solve, and the documentation is... well, strange at best. * Is it possible to make t

Re: Troubles configuring vim (multi-questions)

2007-04-12 Thread panshizhu
OnionKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写于 2007-04-13 08:22:06: > I've been thinking of migrating to using vim (gvim) but I'm running into lots > of difficulties on the road I just can't solve, and the documentation is... > well, strange at best. It seems that Vim had a longer learning curve than other edi