Alternative keymaps [Was: vim and touch typing]

On 08.10.15 20:33, Gevisz wrote: > In this connection I have only one inconvenience connected with the facts that > 1) I usually have to use 3 keyboard layouts at the same time switching >between them with a hot key, > 2) it is impossible to have a "direct hot key switch" to a certain >keyb

Re: Switching off auto-indent within vim script...

On 08.10.15 14:56, Sonny Chee wrote: > > But all of the text is auto-indented. Any help would be appreciated Have you tried "set paste", instead? If pasting from the X Clipboard, there's also: "+p (That was "*p in old Vim versions, IIRC.) Erik -- -- You received this message from the "v

Re: vim and touch typing

On Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 10:14:59 PM UTC+13, Filype Pereira wrote: > Hi. > > I am new to vim. I know most of the motion and command stuff but I just don't > use them enough. > > So, I started reading a vim book and didn't get very far, when I stopped at > this line: > > > If you can't to

Re: Alternative keymaps [Was: vim and touch typing]

fredag 9 oktober 2015 skrev Erik Christiansen : > On 08.10.15 20:33, Gevisz wrote: > > In this connection I have only one inconvenience connected with the > facts that > > 1) I usually have to use 3 keyboard layouts at the same time switching > >between them with a hot key, > > 2) it is imposs

Re: Switching off auto-indent within vim script...

On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 4:56:20 PM UTC-5, Sonny Chee wrote: > Hey Guys, > > When I want to insert text from my clipboard, I turn off auto-indenting with > the following: > > :setl noai nocin nosi inde= > > That works great. > > I'm working on a vimscript that inserts (prettily) format

Re: vim and touch typing

2015-10-08 20:33 GMT+03:00 Gevisz : > On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:23:33 +1100 Erik Christiansen > wrote: > >> On 06.10.15 01:01, Filype Pereira wrote: >> > So, I started reading a vim book and didn't get very far, when I stopped >> > at this line: >> > >> > > If you can't touch type, then go learn it

vim with servername as default editor in zsh

I'd like 'edit' in zsh to start vim with v:servername = VIM. Here's what I tried but to no avail, perhaps someone knows how to do better?! In .zshenv there's a line export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" and in .zshrc there's export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR=$VISUAL and in ~/bin there's an executa

Re: Switching off auto-indent within vim script...

Thanks guys for the pointer to :set paste. Also appreciate the help debugging the issue with my script Ben. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 4:56:20 PM UTC-5, Sonny Chee wrote: > > Hey Guys, > > > > When I want to insert text from my clipboard,

Re: vim with servername as default editor in zsh

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:44:27AM -0700, Enno wrote: > I'd like 'edit' in zsh to start vim with v:servername = VIM. Hello, What is this `edit` binary? Maybe it's just a symlink to vim. Regards Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9 -

Re: Switching off auto-indent within vim script...

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 06:27:15PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > (That was "*p in old Vim versions, IIRC.) Are you sure? According to the Vim help, "* is the primary X selection and "+ is the X clipboard. Regards Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id:

Where does gvim look for fonts in cygwin x-windows

I always found the X-windows fonts a bit of a mystery. Xfontsel shows a cryptic font naming convention with fields that I've never been able to find a complete and satisfactory explanation for. But I'm sure that font design is complicated business, so my cmoplaint boils down to the fact that ther

Re: Where does gvim look for fonts in cygwin x-windows

Paul gmail.com> writes: > I always found the X-windows fonts a bit of a mystery. Xfontsel shows > a cryptic font naming convention with fields that I've never been able > to find a complete and satisfactory explanation for. But I'm sure > that font design is complicated business, so my cmoplaint

Re: Where does gvim look for fonts in cygwin x-windows

> Paul gmail.com> writes: >> I'm finding that cygwin's gvim no longer seems to use the same cryptic >> font names as xfontsel. They are much simpler names. So it seems >> that gvim doesn't use the X-window fonts. I'm at a loss for how to >> select cygwin packages that will expand my font options

Re: vim with servername as default editor in zsh

Thanks, that's it. Apparently my understanding of the default editor set by $EDITOR/VISUAL was off-beam. -- -- 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