RE: F1

2008-12-18 Thread John Beckett
Max Waterman wrote: > My laptop has the F1 key where my fingers expect the Esc key > to be, so I tried to ':map ctr-vf1 ctr-vesc', but it made no > difference. > > Can someone tell me how to remap the f1 key to escape? You need a mapping that's active in insert mode: :imap John --~--~-

syntax coloring regexp

2008-12-18 Thread acarchau.nab...@gmail.com
I am trying to create a syntax file and I am having trouble in marking out a comment region. The comment starts with an asterisk with the first non white space character preceding it (including newlines) a semi-colon. The comment ends with a semi colon. For example everything between (and incl

Re[2]: C-LEFT doesn't work under cygwin

2008-12-18 Thread klu...@iszf.irk.ru [IMAP]
Hello Tony, Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 2:18:16 PM, you wrote: >> Pressing Ctrl-V followed by Ctrl-Left results in four chars ^[[D >> - the first two ^[ are blue and the last two [D are white. >> But I have no idea what they mean. > ^[ in blue means Ctrl-[, i.e., the Esc character. The whole

F1

2008-12-18 Thread Max Waterman
Hi, My laptop has the F1 key where my fingers expect the Esc key to be, so I tried to ':map ctr-vf1 ctr-vesc', but it made no difference. Can someone tell me how to remap the f1 key to escape? Thanks, Max. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from th

Re: Map Suspend Function

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/12/08 21:51, Derek Litz wrote: > > Hey I'm trying to map ^Z to save and then suspend. > > :map ^Z :w^Z > > I think I've got it right because I tried replacing the ^Z on the right side > and it works perfectly. Problem is with anything I've put before ^Z it > repeats infinity. Luckily this

Re: Map Suspend Function

2008-12-18 Thread Derek Litz
Ben Schmidt-4 wrote: > > >> Hey I'm trying to map ^Z to save and then suspend. >> >> :map ^Z :w^Z >> >> I think I've got it right because I tried replacing the ^Z on the right >> side >> and it works perfectly. Problem is with anything I've put before ^Z it >> repeats infinity. Luckily th

Re: mksession doesn't work as expected

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/12/08 13:03, Nicolas Aggelidis wrote: > Thank you guys for your answers! i think the problem is solved! > > amenu&simple.Enable\ autochdir :set autochdir > amenu&simple.Disable\ autochdir :set noautochdir > amenu&simple.autochdir\ Status :verbose set autochdir? > > > i have added a menu so t

Re: VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/12/08 17:22, Christian MICHON wrote: [...] > Bram's funny signatures is not in the email: it's not from him. Right. > > Side note: windows users should compile their own binaries :) > Not necessarily: Steve Hall's Vim distributions https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4

Re: Folding for editing files with merge-conflicts?

2008-12-18 Thread Steve
> > has anyone implemented a folding/side-by-side plugin for editing files > > containing merge conflicts? > CVSconflict sets up two buffers with the left side being the > "local+merge" file and the right side being the "repository+merge" file, > and applies vimdiff to them. > > http://vim.source

Re: VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/12/08 15:40, fritzophrenic wrote: [...] > Thanks, John. Hopefully you'll save someone from a world of hurt. > Something to keep in mind in general on the Vim lists is that all > messages (especially from Bram) should be in plain-text. The only time > I've ever seen an attachment on these lis

Re: VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/12/08 11:26, John Beckett wrote: > I should take a little longer checking, but in view of the potential for > damage I'm sending a preliminary opinion: > > A message has just been sent to the vim_multibyte list. > Header includes: > >From: b...@moolenaar.net >To: vim-multib...@vim.or

Re: Map Suspend Function

2008-12-18 Thread Marc Weber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:51:07PM -0800, Derek Litz wrote: > > > Hey I'm trying to map ^Z to save and then suspend. Have you had a look at :h 'autowrite' ? Maybe setting that option is enough? Sincerly Marc Weber --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Map Suspend Function

2008-12-18 Thread Charles Campbell
Derek Litz wrote: > Hey I'm trying to map ^Z to save and then suspend. > > :map ^Z :w^Z > > I think I've got it right because I tried replacing the ^Z on the right side > and it works perfectly. Problem is with anything I've put before ^Z it > repeats infinity. Luckily this was just the w comman

Re: Map Suspend Function

2008-12-18 Thread Ben Schmidt
> Hey I'm trying to map ^Z to save and then suspend. > > :map ^Z :w^Z > > I think I've got it right because I tried replacing the ^Z on the right side > and it works perfectly. Problem is with anything I've put before ^Z it > repeats infinity. Luckily this was just the w command at first, but

Map Suspend Function

2008-12-18 Thread Derek Litz
Hey I'm trying to map ^Z to save and then suspend. :map ^Z :w^Z I think I've got it right because I tried replacing the ^Z on the right side and it works perfectly. Problem is with anything I've put before ^Z it repeats infinity. Luckily this was just the w command at first, but was a little

Re: Foldmethod=Syntax

2008-12-18 Thread T. Borgmann
Thanks for your appreciation, folks! Well yes you're right, but restoring my foldings manually would require me to assimilate two more shortcuts into my brain ;) Here is my temporary solution, temporary, because it shows an unexpected behaviour which is also unwanted but not as disattracting to

Re: Remove carriage return

2008-12-18 Thread fritzophrenic
On Dec 18, 9:32 am, "Vim Questions" wrote: > Thank you, John, for your responce > > It did not work for me. > > I installed gVim 7.2 on my lap top (Windows). When I double click on it, it > opnes. I go to "file-> open" and bring my text  (that is in .txt format). I > enterred the recommended co

Re: How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Marc Weber wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:36:32AM -0800, Fan Kai wrote: >> >> I can't map Alt-key in vim when open it in a putty console, with >> terminal set to xterm. >> I read the help of map-alt-keys, and it says it's because the terminal >> would pref

Re: How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread Marc Weber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:36:32AM -0800, Fan Kai wrote: > > I can't map Alt-key in vim when open it in a putty console, with > terminal set to xterm. > I read the help of map-alt-keys, and it says it's because the terminal > would prefix the character with an ESC character. > > Is there any w

Re: Remove carriage return

2008-12-18 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Vim Questions wrote: > Thank you, John, for your responce > > It did not work for me. > > I installed gVim 7.2 on my lap top (Windows). When I double click on it, it > opnes. I go to "file-> open" and bring my text (that is in .txt format). I > enterred the recom

Re: How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread Matt Wozniski
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Tom Link wrote: > >> I can't map Alt-key in vim when open it in a putty console, with >> terminal set to xterm. > > Something like this could help: > > set =^[x But note that, even in current vim, this does not work properly when using a multibyte encoding [1].

Re: vim + unix shell + perl better than moder GUI IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans ?

2008-12-18 Thread Nazri Ramliy
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM, alex wrote: > - Unix + vim are better than GUI-IDEs or not in your eyes ? Absolutely, if you know what you're doing and you're a touch typist - can type without looking at the keyboard, ever. Mind you that's quite a big `if' there. The shell gives you a means t

Re: Change horizontal to vertical splits?

2008-12-18 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-12-18, fritzophrenic wrote: > On Dec 17, 1:14 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > > You can also precede a command that performs a split with ":vert" to > > make the split open vertically. > > > >    :help :vert > > > > It only works in one special case (the :diffsplit command) but also > see

Re: Re: how to jump to the error position while compiling in vim?

2008-12-18 Thread fritzophrenic
On Dec 18, 10:08 am, "Jackie" wrote: > Hi! Thanks for your feedback! > I think perhaps, my previous description is not clearly enough, and make > you mistake my mind. > > In a simple project, I did some tricks to make the compiler > report warning and error if we compiling. > And then, I open t

Re: vim + unix shell + perl better than moder GUI IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans ?

2008-12-18 Thread fritzophrenic
On Dec 17, 8:39 am, alex wrote: > Perhaps one problem in vim is the source code browsing: the standard > tags facilities aren't too much advanced and useful. > > ... > > - what other unix tools are needed (for listing call trees for > debugging, ecc) ? I've never used it myself...but I unders

Re: Change horizontal to vertical splits?

2008-12-18 Thread fritzophrenic
On Dec 17, 1:14 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > > You can also precede a command that performs a split with ":vert" to > make the split open vertically. > >    :help :vert > It only works in one special case (the :diffsplit command) but also see :help 'diffopt' where it explains the "vertical" optio

Re: Foldmethod=Syntax

2008-12-18 Thread fritzophrenic
On Dec 17, 8:03 pm, anhnmncb wrote: > > Hi, that's annoying me with a long time too, I have to :syntax enable then > zMi to restore a outline layout. > Also see ;help zx and :help zX for a potentially better way to restore the fold layout. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: how to jump to the error position while compiling in vim?

2008-12-18 Thread Jackie
Hi! Thanks for your feedback! I think perhaps, my previous description is not clearly enough, and make you mistake my mind. In a simple project, I did some tricks to make the compiler report warning and error if we compiling. And then, I open the .c file in vim, use the ':make'or ":!make" in vim

Re: vim + unix shell + perl better than moder GUI IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans ?

2008-12-18 Thread Anton Sharonov
> The trouble is if you learn vim + eclim only you won't even > know that Those "missing" features do exist.. :-( No, you shouldn't learn vim + eclim only. One must obviously learn "pure eclipse" as well - but this is anyway happens "automatically", during your day-to-day usage. > For example ca

Re: Folding for editing files with merge-conflicts?

2008-12-18 Thread Charles Campbell
Steve wrote: > Hi Guys, > > has anyone implemented a folding/side-by-side plugin for editing files > containing merge conflicts? > I'm thinking of something like :diffsplit mode. > > For example, many configuration management systems mark conflicts in > merged files something like this: > > <<

Remove carriage return

2008-12-18 Thread Vim Questions
Thank you, John, for your responce It did not work for me. I installed gVim 7.2 on my lap top (Windows). When I double click on it, it opnes. I go to "file-> open" and bring my text (that is in .txt format). I enterred the recommended command (copy and paste from your e-mail) in the first line t

Re: vim + unix shell + perl better than moder GUI IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans ?

2008-12-18 Thread Marc Weber
> About "pain": it is the same as with learning vim: things which > you do most of the time and very often, you just learn how to do > efficiently with vim + eclim; things which are used not so often The trouble is if you learn vim + eclim only you won't even know that those "missing" features do

Re: Folding for editing files with merge-conflicts?

2008-12-18 Thread Christian Ebert
* Steve on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 05:50:43 -0800 > has anyone implemented a folding/side-by-side plugin for editing files > containing merge conflicts? > I'm thinking of something like :diffsplit mode. > > For example, many configuration management systems mark conflicts in > merged files

Re: How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Link
> I don't know the proper help page now but the info is somewhere :help :set-termcap --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--

Re: How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Link
> I can't map Alt-key in vim when open it in a putty console,  with > terminal set to xterm. Something like this could help: set =^[x I don't know the proper help page now but the info is somewhere ... or in the archives of this list. See also h :map-alt-keys. Regards, Thomas. --~--~

Folding for editing files with merge-conflicts?

2008-12-18 Thread Steve
Hi Guys, has anyone implemented a folding/side-by-side plugin for editing files containing merge conflicts? I'm thinking of something like :diffsplit mode. For example, many configuration management systems mark conflicts in merged files something like this: <<< file-from-left-branch left s

Re: vim + unix shell + perl better than moder GUI IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans ?

2008-12-18 Thread Anton Sharonov
> Eg if you only want to use subversion and you do a lot of heavy > refactorings in Java I'd recommend Eclipse for that all. Why? > Most of the work as already been done and if you want to rename > a method you can use Eclipse Wizards for that which will be > superior to vim search repalce methods

Re: VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Thread fritzophrenic
On Dec 18, 4:26 am, "John Beckett" wrote: > I should take a little longer checking, but in view of the potential for > damage I'm sending a preliminary opinion: > > A message has just been sent to the vim_multibyte list. > Header includes: > >   From: b...@moolenaar.net >   To: vim-multib...@vi

Re: How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread StarWing
I have this problem, too, and i don't know how to solve, either. I use gnome-terminal. maybe you can try the option "esckeys", but i can't try it, i'm in windows now. btw, there are some problem in windows. use gvim -u N -U N, and i can't map the (or ) key, i don't know why, i can input it with ^

Re: vim + unix shell + perl better than moder GUI IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans ?

2008-12-18 Thread Marc Weber
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 06:39:44AM -0800, alex wrote: > I think that the power of shell programming (particularly with the use > of the perl language) is by far superior of the power of modern GUI > applications. ... This heavily depends on a) the language you want to program in b) your shell (per

Re: Breaking out of a commandline loop

2008-12-18 Thread BigAl
I was using it as part of a sub-replace-expression (I copied your commandline example to test it in my edit session). We're running vim 6.1, huge version w/o gui... and this is a corporate installation. I have no control over the configuration so what I got is what I got. Thanks for all of the

Re: mksession doesn't work as expected

2008-12-18 Thread Cory Echols
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Nicolas Aggelidis wrote: > > one more thing conserning sessions, i want to keep all the session > files in a specific folder i.e. ~/sessions/session_name.vim > > is there any way to make vim save by default all sessions in the > specific folder and load from this

Re: mksession doesn't work as expected

2008-12-18 Thread Nicolas Aggelidis
one more thing conserning sessions, i want to keep all the session files in a specific folder i.e. ~/sessions/session_name.vim is there any way to make vim save by default all sessions in the specific folder and load from this specific folder. so that i can do the following: mksession session_na

Re: mksession doesn't work as expected

2008-12-18 Thread Nicolas Aggelidis
Thank you guys for your answers! i think the problem is solved! amenu &simple.Enable\ autochdir :set autochdir amenu &simple.Disable\ autochdir :set noautochdir amenu &simple.autochdir\ Status :verbose set autochdir? i have added a menu so that i can disable and enable autochdir with buttons

Re: VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Thread Rafael G.
John Beckett wrote: > Moral of story: > - Anyone can send a mail and spoof the "From" address. > Anyone can use SPF policies in DNS to avoid this. Regards PS: Today, it's second time that I read this problem. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message fro

VIRUS with Bram as sender

2008-12-18 Thread John Beckett
I should take a little longer checking, but in view of the potential for damage I'm sending a preliminary opinion: A message has just been sent to the vim_multibyte list. Header includes: From: b...@moolenaar.net To: vim-multib...@vim.org Subject: Mail Transaction Failed Date: Thu, 18 De

How to map Alt+key when using vim in putty

2008-12-18 Thread Fan Kai
I can't map Alt-key in vim when open it in a putty console, with terminal set to xterm. I read the help of map-alt-keys, and it says it's because the terminal would prefix the character with an ESC character. Is there any way to solve this problem? --~--~-~--~~~---~

Re: strang behavior when try to complete the word prefix with @

2008-12-18 Thread anhnmncb
On 2008-12-18, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On 18/12/08 08:51, anhnmncb wrote: >> Hi, list, >> >> @ is in the iskeyword list by default, but I find that when I try to complete >> @word by CTRL-N/P, it fails, vim tries to complete word, not @word as I >> expected. What's wrong? >> > > See ":help 'isf

Re: strang behavior when try to complete the word prefix with @

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 18/12/08 08:51, anhnmncb wrote: > Hi, list, > > @ is in the iskeyword list by default, but I find that when I try to complete > @word by CTRL-N/P, it fails, vim tries to complete word, not @word as I > expected. What's wrong? > See ":help 'isfname'". @ in 'isfname', 'iskeyword', etc., means "