Re: for list

2011-02-02 Thread Hofmann, Joachim
> > On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:33 AM, Hofmann, Joachim wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > How is the syntax to a for list with constants > > > > e.g. > > > > let mydb = "db1 db2 db3" > > for db in mydb > > source db.dict > > end > > > let mydb = "db1 db2 2b3" > for db in split(mydb) > exec 'source '.db.'.

Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Ajay Jain
Hi, I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For example .. I want to able to do something like: vim dumm.c :tabe man ls . Is this possible? Regards, Ajay. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the te

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Daniel Corrêa
On 02/02/11 10:19, Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For example .. I want to able to do something like: vim dumm.c :tabe man ls . Is this possible? Regards, Ajay. Try: :tabnew | silent !man Cheers, Daniel ---

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Steve Laurie
On 02/02/11 23:19, Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For example .. I want to able to do something like: vim dumm.c :tabe man ls . Is this possible? Regards, Ajay. If you put the cursor on the word/statement/command for example "u

Could HIGHLIGHT not clear the screen?

2011-02-02 Thread PabloHot
Hi, Is there any way VimScript HIGHLIGHT statement could be teased not to clear the screen? I have written a script that calls HIGHLIGHT many times, but each time the screen gets cleared. :( Cheers, all! :D Pablo -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Marco
On 2011-02-02 Daniel Corrêa wrote: > Try: > > :tabnew | silent !man If i execute !man ls I get the message: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional and the displayed man page looks distorted in gvim. Why? I opened up (gnome-terminal, urxvt, xterm) opened gvim and executed !man ls If

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread sergio
On 02/02/2011 03:19 PM, Ajay Jain wrote: I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. Have you tied to find answer by yourself? I've newer thought to read man from vim, but have found answer in five seconds: :help :Man It it not very difficult, right? -- sergio. -- Y

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Joan Miquel Torres Rigo
2011/2/2 Marco : > On 2011-02-02 Daniel Corrêa wrote: > >> Try: >> >>      :tabnew | silent !man > > If i execute !man ls I get the message: > > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > > and the displayed man page looks distorted in gvim. Why? This is not (exactly) a vim issue but man pager'

Re: Determining if Vim is running in text-console mode or X Windows

2011-02-02 Thread mat
has() is good, problem is If your in a terminal (gnome-terminal), your not running any "gui" vim. I personally would try to check outside vim, maybe env $TERM ? On Feb 1, 4:23 am, Steve Laurie wrote: > Hi, > > I've searched Vim help and Google as well as done lots of > experimentation with no luc

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Wed, February 2, 2011 3:04 pm, Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote: > Did you try to run gvim from terminal and try again? > > In any case, you could avoid this problem by specifying TERM value in > command line or setting this environment variable from within vim (I > don't know, but must be possible

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Charles Campbell
Ajay Jain wrote: Hi, I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. For example .. I want to able to do something like: vim dumm.c :tabe man ls . Is this possible? Perhaps Manpageview will do what you want; :Man ls Manpageview is available at: http://mys

Re: Vim, Perl and stuff.

2011-02-02 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 02/02/11 02:01, Alan Young wrote: [...] if has( 'perl' ) perl<< EOP [...] This use of if has() together with a here-document doesn't work because a Vim without Perl can't properly parse the here-document when trying to find the *matching* endif. See :help script-here about how t

Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?

2011-02-02 Thread Dun Peal
Hi. I read about the -S command line flag, as well as the --cmd flag. Problem is, I need to source an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been read, but before the first file has been read. So --cmd is too early for me, while -S is too late. What I need is a flag --foo, such tha

Re: Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?

2011-02-02 Thread Charles Campbell
Dun Peal wrote: Hi. I read about the -S command line flag, as well as the --cmd flag. Problem is, I need to source an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been read, but before the first file has been read. So --cmd is too early for me, while -S is too late. What I need is a fl

Re: Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?Z

2011-02-02 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Dun Peal wrote: Hi. I read about the -S command line flag, as well as the --cmd flag. Problem is, I need to source an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been read, but before the first file has been read. So --cmd is too early for me, while -S is too lat

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Daniel Corrêa
On 02/02/11 12:03, sergio wrote: On 02/02/2011 03:19 PM, Ajay Jain wrote: I want to be able to open a manpage using VIM without exiting it. Have you tied to find answer by yourself? I've newer thought to read man from vim, but have found answer in five seconds: :help :Man It it not very d

Re: Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?Z

2011-02-02 Thread ZyX
Reply to message «Re: Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?Z», sent 21:09:50 02 February 2011, Wednesday by Benjamin R. Haskell: > " careful of 'special' chars in filename (including spaces) > vim --cmd 'let g:extrasource='./path/to/extra.vim It won't wo

Re: Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?

2011-02-02 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 02/02/11 17:51, Dun Peal wrote: Hi. I read about the -S command line flag, as well as the --cmd flag. Problem is, I need to source an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been read, but before the first file has been read. So --cmd is too early for me, while -S is too late.

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Marco
On 2011-02-02 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote: > Gvim isn't terminal application and you probably did'nt call it from > terminal Yes, I did call it from gnome-terminal, urxvt and xterm. > aren't terminals and doesn't export any value for TERM environment > variable. TERM is set to xterm. > Did yo

Re: value of a variable within a expression

2011-02-02 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Jonas! On Mi, 02 Feb 2011, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > Hello, > > You have to excuse me if this is a silly question. But as you might > have guessed I'm new to vim. > > I've defined a variable s:nfile and want to use it in the following > expression. > > !stylus < '%:p' > s:nfile > > This does

Re: Sourcing an arbitrary vimscript right after all vimrc files have been executed?

2011-02-02 Thread Dun Peal
Thanks a lot, guys. I think I'll use the solution proposed by Mr. Haskell. D -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Re: Vim, Perl and stuff.

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Young
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 07:59, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > See >        :help script-here > about how to make it work. Thank you. I've come up with the following as a way to deal with not having to re-index lines on an un-modified buffer. Is there anything else I can do? I realize this will probab

Re: Manpage inside Vim

2011-02-02 Thread Joan Miquel Torres Rigo
2011/2/2 Marco : > On 2011-02-02 Joan Miquel Torres Rigo wrote: > >> Gvim isn't terminal application and you probably did'nt call it from >> terminal > Yes, I did call it from gnome-terminal, urxvt and xterm. > >> aren't terminals and doesn't export any value for TERM environment >> variable. > TE

US encryption-code export laws relaxed since January 7

2011-02-02 Thread Tony Mechelynck
This probably doesn't apply to Vim (whose FTP servers are in the Netherlands) — or is it? (who contributed the Blowfish encryption code? Wasn't it a US programmer? Or where did he copy the code from?) Anyway, there are no more restrictions on exporting encryption code from the US as part of an

Re: US encryption-code export laws relaxed since January 7

2011-02-02 Thread Erik Falor
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:22:59AM +0100, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > This probably doesn't apply to Vim (whose FTP servers are in the > Netherlands) ? or is it? (who contributed the Blowfish encryption code? > Wasn't it a US programmer? Or where did he copy the code from?) Anyway, > there are no m

Re: US encryption-code export laws relaxed since January 7

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Young
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 19:31, Erik Falor wrote: > Seriously? It's about time! Maybe the sanity is catching, and the > Patriot Act and the DMCA will go away, too. I've got a great bridge I'd like to sell you too! -- Alan Young -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top

Re: Starting out with VIM and C++

2011-02-02 Thread nickatron
Thanks for all of the suggestions. The default gvim works great so far. I found out you have to save the file as .cpp before it will do syntax highlighting. It even indents things for me too. The only problem I have now is with MinGW. I installed it, and it works great, but the process that I am

Copying and inserting a word in a search/replace

2011-02-02 Thread Colin Beighley
Hello, I want to do something like this word => , becomes word => word, with search and replace. Any suggestions? Thank, Colin -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://ww

Re: Copying and inserting a word in a search/replace

2011-02-02 Thread Israel Chauca F.
On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:37 PM, Colin Beighley wrote: > Hello, > > I want to do something like this > > word => , > > becomes > > word => word, > :%s/^word\ze => ,/& => &,/ % => whole file ^ => Beginning of line \ze => end of text to be replaced & => matched text Replace 'word' with '\