Re: vim --servername doesn't work

2014-03-25 Thread Christian Brabandt
Am 2014-03-25 05:37, schrieb sinbad: On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:39:35 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Fritz wrote: On Sunday, March 23, 2014 11:02:16 PM UTC-5, sinbad wrote: i'm trying to use the asynccommand plugin, it requires that vim be started as a server so im starting vim as follows: vim

Re: OCaml mode : unable to use \t (type display)

2014-03-25 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 22/03/14 16:37, Antoine wrote: Hello, I would like to use the OCaml LocalLeadert functionality (that displays the type of the selected term, and is defined in ocaml.vim), but the result disappears very quickly (or, most of the times, just doesn't show up). It is just enough to understand

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread glts
On Sunday, March 23, 2014 4:34:19 PM UTC+1, Bram Moolenaar wrote: At some point Vim started supporting plugins. At that time it was fine to add a plugin manually, it was a one-time thing. But now that there are so many plugins and they get updated often, manually updating plugins has become

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread glts
Hi Marc, On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:58:52 AM UTC+1, MarcWeber wrote: Eg massive downvoting happend on the vam vim.sf.net plugin page for whatever reason (drchip removed his plugins form vim.sf.net for a similar reason). This is just a reminder for those who missed the happenings in the

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread BPJ
Ben Fritz wrote: I think simple and easy runtime path management like Pathogen offers would be a great addition to Vim and would not be very controversial. I understand that all the other plugin managers build on top of something like this to allow easier

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Matteo Cavalleri
Currently, the official 'canonical plugin source' is the scripts site on vim.org. If you listen to the community, you will hear that some good people avoid vim.org because it isn't up to standards. And I think they're right. I am very sympathetic to vim.org being the canonical source for

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 25, 2014 2:27 PM, BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: Ben Fritz wrote: I think simple and easy runtime path management like Pathogen offers would be a great addition to Vim and would not be very controversial. I understand that all the other plugin managers

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Marc Weber
dowvoting due to textfile The main issue is lack of interaction. Getting down votings for unkown reason is bad for everybody. So this hurts a lot IMHO. issue trackers are a lot better, because they create a soft force improving / documenting the issues. The text file contains: linux:

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread glts
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 1:05:03 PM UTC+1, MarcWeber wrote: dowvoting due to textfile The main issue is lack of interaction. Getting down votings for unkown reason is bad for everybody. So this hurts a lot IMHO. issue trackers are a lot better, because they create a soft force improving /

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread LCD 47
On 25 March 2014, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: [...] About github vs vim.sf.net: The best thing would be allowing @ vim.sf.net to just register a github url *and be done*. vim.sf.net could then just forward to github generating a .zip file for download. Simple change, but huge

Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread mascip
Hi there, I'm thinking *using Vim for spreadsheets*, for a few *reasons*: - you can *diff* it ! (For me, that's the main reason) - vim key mappings - vimscript, so I can easily program it myself - easy to add my own key mappings - faster to open and save than Libreoffice I've done a bit of

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread Tim Chase
On 2014-03-25 11:47, mascip wrote: - *sc* or *slsc*: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slsc/ a spreadsheet with vim-like keybindings, so not strictly Vim Has anyone used any of these? How was it? Of your list, I've only toyed with sc which was a fun experience, but certainly not where

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread lith
I'm thinking using Vim for spreadsheets, for a few reasons: You didn't say what you are trying to achieve. Why do you think a spreadsheet is the right approach to solve that problem? Why not keep the data in csv files and then manipulate the data from a script (e.g. written in R) you evaluate

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread lessthanideal
On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 11:47:42 UTC, Pierre Masci wrote: Hi there,  I'm thinking using Vim for spreadsheets, for a few reasons:  - you can diff it ! (For me, that's the main reason)  - vim key mappings  - vimscript, so I can easily program it myself  - easy to add my own

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Marc Weber
@David me saying you're wrong: You're right. Thanks for facing me. About APIs: The main problem is that you cannot just access the gitub api, because accessing the internet from PHP scripts is not allowed. Code like this fails: echo file_get_contents('http://google.de'); from #sourceforge its

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread piemas25
Thanks a lot for your input, all :-) Very good point lith: I use spreadsheets for many different purposes, and I need different solutions for different problems. That's probably why my question was vague: Has anyone used any of these? How was it? So far I think I could replace some of my

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread Marc Weber
Excerpts from mascip's message of Tue Mar 25 11:47:42 + 2014: I'm thinking *using Vim for spreadsheets*, for a few *reasons*: libreoffice like tools can also export to html and import it again. [..] TABLE CELLSPACING=0 COLS=2 BORDER=0 COLGROUP SPAN=2 WIDTH=85/COLGROUP

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread tooth pik
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:47:42AM +, mascip wrote: Hi there, I'm thinking *using Vim for spreadsheets*, for a few *reasons*: - you can *diff* it ! (For me, that's the main reason) - vim key mappings - vimscript, so I can easily program it myself - easy to add my own key mappings -

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread Christian Brabandt
Am 2014-03-25 12:47, schrieb mascip: I'm thinking USING VIM FOR SPREADSHEETS, for a few REASONS: - you can DIFF it ! (For me, that's the main reason) - vim key mappings - vimscript, so I can easily program it myself - easy to add my own key mappings - faster to open and save than Libreoffice

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread piemas25
​Thank you for your input Christian :-) I have to give csv.vim a try soon. Thanks for your code Tooth: I'll check it out when I have a bit more time. I think I might end up doing something similar. Or follow Marc's idea of using Python/Perl/Ruby. So many possibilities, it's hard to choose. I'll

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread BPJ
2014-03-25 11:33, Nikolay Pavlov skrev: Please point where anybody said a word about automatic updating. VAM and Vundle do not do this for sure. Well excuse me for getting the impression from statements like this from Ben in the mail I quoted: Vundle and the rest take too much config for my

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread glphvgacs
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:47:42AM +, mascip wrote: - *sc* or *slsc*: ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/slsc/ a spreadsheet with vim-like keybindings, so not strictly Vim IMHO, if you're using vim to do handle your spreadsheet needs you're not doing it right. i mean what happened to do

Re: OCaml mode : unable to use \t (type display)

2014-03-25 Thread Antoine
Hello. I think it just means that either the message space, or the whole screen, is cleared too fast for you to read it. Yes, I think you are right. If you use :echomsg instead of plain :echo, Vim will remember the message. It will still be cleared just as fast, but you will be able to

Re: Vim Spreadsheets

2014-03-25 Thread glphvgacs
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:47:42AM +, mascip wrote: - *Tcalc*: http://tcalc.berlios.de/ not really a spreadsheet: allows you to to do all your accounting with plain text files using the full power of your favorite text editor. It is a command line tool that operates as a filter. It

Re: OCaml mode : unable to use \t (type display)

2014-03-25 Thread Marcin Szamotulski
On 11:22 Tue 25 Mar , Antoine wrote: Hello. I think it just means that either the message space, or the whole screen, is cleared too fast for you to read it. Yes, I think you are right. If you use :echomsg instead of plain :echo, Vim will remember the message. It will still

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Mar 25, 2014 10:07 PM, BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: 2014-03-25 11:33, Nikolay Pavlov skrev: Please point where anybody said a word about automatic updating. VAM and Vundle do not do this for sure. Well excuse me for getting the impression from statements like this from Ben in the mail I

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:27:19 +0100 BPJ b...@melroch.se wrote: Ben Fritz wrote: I think simple and easy runtime path management like Pathogen offers would be a great addition to Vim and would not be very controversial. The VimOutliner project is basing their

Re: Very slow gvim refresh when using NoMachine

2014-03-25 Thread Spencer Williams
I had this same issue - it was a huge pain to debug! Finally found that selecting 'Disable DirectDraw for screen rendering' and 'Disable deferred screen updates' did the trick. Gvim is blazing fast now! I'm not sure if the first one is necessary - I think it's the deferred screen updates that

Syntax region not working as expected

2014-03-25 Thread Pedro Paulo Palazzo
Hello, new to the group. I am trying to prevent the vim spell check from highlighting citekeys in Markdown texts (in the format [@Author:1999ab, p.\ 99]). for this, I set up a syntax line in .vimrc: code syntax region ExCitation start=\[@ skip=\\\] end=\] contains=@NoSpell /code However,

Question on .vimrc coding technique

2014-03-25 Thread Singlestone
I just added the following lines to my .vimrc file: let start_comment=\\/\\* let any_including_nl=\\_. let non_greedy=\\{-} let end_comment=\\*\\/ let full_c_comment=start_comment . any_including_nl . non_greedy . end_comment nnoremap leadercc /^R=full_c_comment^M^M The

Re: how to delete a word previous cursor?

2014-03-25 Thread shada
Thank Dan lowe, dB is useful 多谢本家刘 steve,daw也是有效的。 2014-03-25 11:16 GMT+08:00 Steve liu sliu@gmail.com: will 'daw' work? On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:05 AM, shada laf...@gmail.com wrote: how to delete a word previous cursor? premise is don't move cursor. -- -- You received this