Re: Two problems

2006-11-15 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2006-11-15, Chuck Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In gvim you can do iDelEsc or 0iBS to join lines. So the need for (J) is superfluous. Why is there no antithesis to J for splitting lines? Because In The Beginning was Vi, and Vi viewed Files as consisting of sequences of Lines, each Line

Re: Two problems

2006-11-15 Thread Russell Bateman
What Gary says is historically true, but I would point out that it was the fact that deep underneath vi was sitting on ed. Many full-screen versions of line editors, like teco, suffered from having their wings tied down close to the lowest assumptions and could not spread them and soar. I

Re: Two problems

2006-09-15 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:19:22 +1000 Hi Pete ! Thank you for disassembling the hex into mnemonics! :O) One question remains in my head: if /.\{73,}/ find all lines, for what is the g for? I mean...more than finding the whole

Re: Two problems

2006-09-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:19:22 +1000 Hi Pete ! Thank you for disassembling the hex into mnemonics! :O) One question remains in my head: if /.\{73,}/ find all lines, for what is the g for? I mean

Re: Two problems

2006-09-15 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: A.J.Mechelynck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:54:02 +0200 Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:19:22 +1000 Hi Pete ! Thank you for disassembling the hex

Re: Two problems

2006-09-15 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:19:22 +1000 snip ... snip Hi Pete, ...please check this with your genious vimly mind... :) -- BIG smiley! Your initial command set was: 1,$g/.\{73,}/normal v}gq Which does -- if I understand

Re: Two problems

2006-09-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Meino Christian Cramer wrote: From: Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:19:22 +1000 snip ... snip Hi Pete, ...please check this with your genious vimly mind... :) -- BIG smiley! Your initial command set was: 1,$g/.\{73,}/normal v}gq

Re: Two problems

2006-09-15 Thread Pete Johns
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 20:20:58 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck sent: You could simply do :%g/.{73,}/normal gqq see help gqq This would of course keep the hard line break (if there is one) between ...Very Very Very and Very Very Very long line. You can't have it both ways. Indeed. The alternative

Re: Two problems

2006-09-14 Thread Andrea Spadaccini
Ciao Peter, The Vim Book (http://iccf-holland.org/click5.html#oualline) will get you up to speed quickly on most of Vim's important features, and teach you how to use some important tools you might miss otherwise. Most complex commands can still be reduced down to one or two keystrokes, just

Re: Two problems

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Wokula
Pete Johns schrieb: For all lines longer than 72 characters, reformat the paragraph from that line.. 1,$g/.\{73,}/normal v}gq or just :set tw=72 if set otherwise :g/./normal gqq Andy

Re: Two problems

2006-09-14 Thread Peter Hodge
--- Andrea Spadaccini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well.. the vim book is for vim 5.7.. Are there any plans to make a new version for vim 7.x? I would buy it if only it was up-to-date! :) Many of Vim's best features were included in 5.7. It is still a great book to get you from a novice to

RE: Two problems

2006-09-14 Thread Max Dyckhoff
Christian Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:21 PM To: Max Dyckhoff Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Two problems From: Max Dyckhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Two problems Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:30:15 -0700 Hi Max, thanks a lot for your help

Re: Two problems

2006-09-14 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Pete Johns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:46:42 +1000 On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 04:45:12 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer sent: 2.) Currently I am reading the ascii version of the vimtips file. One thing I would like to change physically (that means

Re: Two problems

2006-09-14 Thread Pete Johns
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 04:57:24 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer sent: Hi Pete! Hi! thank you very much for this line of code -- works like a charme! Delighted to hear it. The only bad thing is: I dont understand completly, how it works He he... I'm glad that someone's taken this apart :-)

Two problems

2006-09-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I have two problems: 1.) Splitting line into two from normal mode. My current concept (hu...great word...;) to split a line into two is (starting and ending in normal mode, which is wanted): i Ctrl-j esc Are there any shorter ways to split a line, may

Re: Two problems

2006-09-13 Thread Peter Hodge
Hello, --- Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.) Splitting line into two from normal mode. My current concept (hu...great word...;) to split a line into two is (starting and ending in normal mode, which is wanted): i Ctrl-j esc Are there

Re: Two problems

2006-09-13 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
From: Peter Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Two problems Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:10:43 +1000 (EST) Hello, --- Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.) Splitting line into two from normal mode. My current concept (hu...great word...;) to split a line

RE: Two problems

2006-09-13 Thread Max Dyckhoff
exec set guifont=.g:maxd_Font.:h.g:maxd_FontSize.:.g:maxd_FontOpts endfunction -Original Message- From: Meino Christian Cramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 8:23 PM To: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: Two problems From: Peter Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED