Re: help with map(), please!

2020-12-01 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 28.11.2020 um 01:05 schrieb Charles Campbell: I'm having a bit of a problem with map(). I've had problems with map() before, and consequently I really really hate to use it. Here goes: 1: construct a comment: " Testing: one two | three four | five | six | "seven | eight

Re: How to quiet the message when filtering...

2020-08-20 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 19.08.2020 um 21:11 schrieb 'J S' via vim_use: But I am curious as to why you say that the Vim Developers are trying to avoid adding options. Is there any intrinsic reason why adding options is undesirable? I think it's more about the option in question: (1) a global silent mode can too easi

Re: Vim easter egg in command line completion

2020-07-01 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 28.06.2020 um 16:48 schrieb Yegappan Lakshmanan: Hi, Try pressing Tab after entering the following (you need a space after Ni): :hi Ni I haven't noticed this easter egg mentioned before. - Yegappan Nice find for the 20 year an-Ni!-versary of Vim 5.7 (version for PC compiled Jun 24 20

Re: [typing Russian characters in vim with vim-LaTeX]

2020-07-01 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 27.06.2020 um 16:59 schrieb Maxim Abalenkov: Dear all, I hope all is well with you. This is my first post to the vim mailing list. I use vim for a long time and would consider myself a power user. Occasionally, I need to type documents in Russian in LaTeX format. To use Russian in vim I follo

Re: Input continuous stream of digraphs

2020-06-11 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 10.06.2020 um 12:05 schrieb Manas: Hi guys, I want to know if it is possible to input digraphs continuously. To some extent, everything is possible. For example, when writing some math related assignment, often I have to write many symbols which I do using digraphs. But using every time s

Re: visual mode popup menu ?

2020-04-30 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 27.04.2020 um 02:37 schrieb M Kelly: Hi, Is there a way to be in visual mode with some text highlighted and popup a menu and keep the highlighted text during and after the popup menu ? thx, -m I would think it could make sense for some popup menu entries, but not all ... how about an examp

Re: vmap inline conditional ques

2020-04-08 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 08.04.2020 um 01:19 schrieb M Kelly: Hi, Is there a way to do an inline conditional such as for demonstration: vnoremap':let [line_start, col_start] = getpos("v")[1:2] :let [line_end, col_end] = getpos(".")[1:2] (line_end > line_start) ? "ge" : "b"' I can do something in a function b

Re: set all - each option one line

2020-01-18 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 17.01.2020 um 22:48 schrieb Erhy: don't see the simple solution? please tell me Erhy Get Vim 8.2.0128 and then use :set! -- Andy -- -- 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

Re: set all - each option one line

2020-01-17 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 17.01.2020 um 19:39 schrieb Bram Moolenaar: Andy Wokula wrote: Am 15.01.2020 um 22:22 schrieb Erhy: Hello! I want to compare the options set in VIM. Do you know, how to format of set all output that I have *for each option a separate line *? Thank you for tips Erhy Apparently :set

Re: match string in part of List buffer starting at index

2020-01-17 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 17.01.2020 um 08:48 schrieb Ni Va: Hi, Would like to match a string onto a part of List starting to Nth index ? Thank you Check out match(), matchstr(), matchstrpos() etc with List argument for {expr} and {start} index. -- Andy -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.

Re: set all - each option one line

2020-01-16 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 15.01.2020 um 22:22 schrieb Erhy: Hello! I want to compare the options set in VIM. Do you know, how to format of set all output that I have *for each option a separate line *? Thank you for tips Erhy Apparently :set always (?) produces multi-column output. (sounds like one of those lit

Re: -x option encryption

2020-01-13 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 12.01.2020 um 21:48 schrieb Stevew: thanks for your responses. I'm really just looking for a command line option as I mentioned. I didn't seem one and it appears there is none. As far as being in memory or history. I'm not that concerned. The files are not exactly the col

Re: Trailing ^M on Windows

2019-11-28 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 16.11.2019 um 12:25 schrieb Matteo Landi: Hello everyone, I have been battling with trailing ^M on Windows Are you using the Cygwin version of Vim? :echo has('win32unix') -- Andy -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the te

Re: help to determine script type

2019-10-15 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 15.10.2019 um 04:00 schrieb sergio: Hello. I'd like to publish my first script on vim.org. It updates bindzone's serial on BufWrite. It's file type plugin, but not to be placed in ftplugin folder. So it's a file type plugin that's not a file type plugin? Eg you can do `:au Bindzone BufWrit

Re: regexp : windows filename recognition

2019-10-10 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 10.10.2019 um 10:44 schrieb Ni Va: Don't understand why it returns 2 first chars on this example : + 20191009_191004_Vim.8.1.2125/ 4.0 KiB [D] 2019-10- echo substitute(getline(line('.')),'^..\zs\(.\+

Re: regexp : windows filename recognition

2019-10-09 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 09.10.2019 um 14:16 schrieb Ni Va: Anything chars contained in windows'filename before a lot of spaces and begining on third char after start of line. Anything chars of filename= \w\s-_. many times ^..filenamesome others chars.*$ /^..\zs.\+$ List of

Re: Best way to launch a URL from within VIM

2019-09-27 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 27.09.2019 um 08:06 schrieb 'J S' via vim_use: Vim 7.something under (MS) Windows 7. I want to do the equivalent of: :!start http://something But that doesn't work. You need to put a space after `!': :! start http://something Non-blocking: :sil ! start http://something If you pu

Re: grab the output of command complete (C-D)

2019-09-15 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 13.09.2019 um 13:24 schrieb Renato Fabbri: I am almost sure I was able to do this... Example: :colo shows the available colorschemes. If I want to have them in a variable, redir @a colo ^D redir END does not work, in any variation of colo ^D I tried (exe 'colo ^D', exe 'colo ', etc). He

Re: Mapping erases search count message

2019-08-29 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 29.08.2019 um 17:36 schrieb Christian Brabandt: On Do, 29 Aug 2019, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Di, 27 Aug 2019, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2019-08-28, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Di, 27 Aug 2019, Gary Johnson wrote: I just tried exposing the search count message by removing 'S' from 's

Re: nnoremap nmap confusion

2019-08-15 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 14.08.2019 um 21:51 schrieb Kai Weber: * 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use : The plugin srstevenson/vim-picker defines a list of mappings: I read those https://github.com/srstevenson/vim-picker README for you: it suggests :nmap for your mappings ... no cargo-cult here. You are righ

Re: nnoremap nmap confusion

2019-08-14 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 14.08.2019 um 16:26 schrieb Kai Weber: The plugin srstevenson/vim-picker defines a list of mappings: I read those https://github.com/srstevenson/vim-picker README for you: it suggests :nmap for your mappings ... no cargo-cult here. -- Andy -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use

Re: setglobal, setlocal, set confusion

2019-08-01 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 01.08.2019 um 14:49 schrieb Kai Weber: I found out about 'setglobal' and read the documentation. It seems I am still confused and think that 'set' is more global than 'setglobal' despite the name suggests. I tried to set my spelllang with setglobal First note that spelllang is a "buffer-lo

Re: How to get C-x C-f to properly handle $HOME but not expand it into the text?

2019-05-20 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 17.05.2019 um 20:11 schrieb Shlomi Fish: On Fri, 17 May 2019 19:36:26 +0200 "'Andy Wokula' via vim_use" wrote: Am 17.05.2019 um 14:15 schrieb Shlomi Fish: Hi all! With gvim -U NONE -u NONE .jwmrc (which the XML file here https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-

Re: How to get C-x C-f to properly handle $HOME but not expand it into the text?

2019-05-17 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 17.05.2019 um 14:15 schrieb Shlomi Fish: Hi all! With gvim -U NONE -u NONE .jwmrc (which the XML file here https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/blob/master/shlomif-settings/jwm/jwm.jwmrc ) pressing Ctrl-x and ctrl-f in insert mode in line 130 causes $HOME to expand into /home/

Re: searching one word containing # with touch *

2019-05-10 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 09.05.2019 um 20:20 schrieb Mathieu Roux: I have so many questions: 1) map :set isk+=#-normal * Vim's help about "bar" does not allow me to understand what it means. Relevant help sections are :h :bar :h The bar character `|' separates most Ex-commands. And to escape the special

Re: searching one word containing # with touch *

2019-05-09 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 07.05.2019 um 20:52 schrieb Mathieu Roux: On lun., 2019-05-06 at 20:52 +0200, 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use wrote: Am 06.05.2019 um 15:33 schrieb Tony Mechelynck: On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 9:35 PM Gary Johnson wrote: On 2019-05-05, Mathieu Roux wrote: On dim., 2019-05-05 at 18:50 +

Re: Create buffer without opening a window

2019-05-06 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 06.05.2019 um 17:02 schrieb 'Lifepillar' via vim_use: I would like to create a new buffer "in the background", without opening any new window, put some text into the buffer then write it to disk, without ever showing the buffer (the reason why I am not populating a List and use writefile() dir

Re: searching one word containing # with touch *

2019-05-06 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 06.05.2019 um 15:33 schrieb Tony Mechelynck: On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 9:35 PM Gary Johnson wrote: On 2019-05-05, Mathieu Roux wrote: On dim., 2019-05-05 at 18:50 +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote: On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 6:44 PM Mathieu Roux wrote: Hello, I would like to search the word under m

Re: Keeping endofline representation in xml fileformat dos file

2019-03-15 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 14.03.2019 um 21:21 schrieb nivaem...@gmail.com: Hi All, I'm wokring on that kind of files'content, initially configured with ff=dos, ffs=unix,dos 1/ Instead of the whole content up above, I see only one line with ^M in place of endline CR LF. 2/ Copying this inline containing ^M in

Re: setting v:searchforward from a motion operator

2019-03-11 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 07.03.2019 um 21:32 schrieb John Passaro: The mapping is implemented essentially like this: nmap =* :set operatorfunc=SetSearchPatterng@ This function sets the search pattern @/ and does a couple of other things. If I set v:searchforward inside it, the assignment is ignored. Maybe you can

Re: Nested syntax highlighting in vim

2019-01-09 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 08.01.2019 um 19:09 schrieb Gua Chung Lim: Hi all, I'm trying to create a syntax for my own mine.vim. I always highlight [words between square brackets in one line] in red. What if the mentioned square brackets are nested like ... [words [inside another brackets]]? I got red color only the fi

Re: Dynamically creating an autocmd group

2019-01-02 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 02.01.2019 um 15:01 schrieb David Fishburn:> :ver VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Dec 30 2018 14:48:55) MS-Windows 32-bit GUI version with OLE support Included patches: 1-662 I have the following augroup: augroup MyTest autocmd! autocmd FocusGained * :if has('clipboar

Re: :wn to :x like map/abbrev ?

2018-12-08 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 08.12.2018 um 14:16 schrieb M Kelly: Hi, Something like: :update|next perhaps? ok, cool. I didn't know about :update. (I could even maybe handle E163, E165 for the last one) take care, and thank you and everyone for vim, -m and check out :h 'autowrite -- Andy -- -- You rec

Re: str2float() issue

2018-11-26 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 26.11.2018 um 14:38 schrieb Vladimir Stenbock: If you want to convert strings of hexadecimal (0xa), octal (0755), binary (0b) to integers, you can use unary + operator. :echo +'0xa' => 10 :echo +'0755' => 493 :echo +'0b' => 240 P.S. Vim script can treat an exponential notat

Re: Problems using v:errmsg

2018-10-02 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 13.09.2018 um 17:10 schrieb Dave Woodfall: I'm trying to detect whether or not a g// command worked by checking v:errmsg. AFAICT this is almost identical to the example to the example in :help errmsg, although there it is using 'silent! next': let v:errmsg = "" silent! g/^>/ if v:errmsg == "

Re: How can I set cursorline only during a search?

2018-06-13 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 13.06.2018 um 21:04 schrieb Bok Woon Chua: I don't use the cursorline, but I would find it helpful to set it during a whenever I press 'n' or 'N' to make the line of the current search match pop out. However once I press anything other than n or N, I'd like to turn the cursorline off. I can do

Re: First line starting with space affects cursor position when switching buffers

2018-06-04 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 02.06.2018 um 09:29 schrieb Bram Moolenaar: Andy Wokula wrote: Am 01.06.2018 um 08:25 schrieb dmcco...@comcast.net: Hello, I have encountered what appears to be a bug in vim, but it might be a feature that I would like to disable. To reproduce the problem: Use vim to create a new file,

Re: First line starting with space affects cursor position when switching buffers

2018-06-01 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 01.06.2018 um 08:25 schrieb dmcco...@comcast.net: Hello, I have encountered what appears to be a bug in vim, but it might be a feature that I would like to disable. To reproduce the problem: Use vim to create a new file, and add 10 or so lines of text to the file. In the first line, put at

Re: mapping ?

2018-05-14 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 13.05.2018 um 22:24 schrieb M Kelly: Yes, this is default behaviour on linux. You need to remap first, then map . thx so much nnoremap works great :-) -mark Same on Windows. You don't need . I'd rather map :nnoremap -- Andy -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use"

Re: Stale Vim plugins at github.com/vim-scripts

2018-05-02 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 02.05.2018 um 17:04 schrieb Yegappan Lakshmanan: Hi all, The plugins available at https://github.com/vim-scripts are not updated for a long time now. This is supposed to mirror the latest plugins from www.vim.org. Is the maintainer of https://github.com/vim-scripts still subscribed to this l

Re: syntax for EOF ruby/python/other lang in vimscript

2018-02-10 Thread 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use
Am 10.02.2018 um 17:40 schrieb Ni Va: Hi, Like :h ruby says, I use this kind of script ruby interface below. How can i make vim switch automatically to ruby syntax in EOF section and rest of time stay in vim syntax ? Thank you Example Vim script: > function! RedGem() ruby <<

Re: get list'index of pattern

2018-02-08 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 08.02.2018 um 18:56 schrieb Ni Va: Hi, I got a list and would get index of item matching a pattern. index(list, string_item) works index(list, pattern_item) ?? match(list, pattern) -- Andy -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply belo

Re: [netrw] How to use netrw#Call() to create custom mappings

2018-01-06 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 11.12.2017 um 03:16 schrieb Pablo Giménez: Hello. I want to customize some of the shortcuts in Netrw. I have seen it provides a global variable which is a dictionary of key mappings and function calls. I paste here a snippet from the help: Example: Clear netrw's marked file list via a mappin

Re: , , , , key notation in Vim documentation

2017-11-10 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 10.11.2017 um 13:55 schrieb Renato Fabbri: I did not find explicitly in the manual, e.g. in :h key-notation, so... does anyone know if there is any difference in: , , for Vim? It's all the same, and the preferred notation is `'. But at least for gVim, `' is different from `'. Also, when

Re: Evoking the option for :help in a mapping

2017-08-28 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 28.08.2017 um 19:02 schrieb Graham Lawrence: I have the customary mappings for :help, nmap :exec "help " . expand("") nmap :exec "help " . expand("") and have been trying to develop similar do the option on the cursor word, something like nmap \\ yiw:h ^R"^[ But ^[ means

Re: autocmd! followed by

2017-08-20 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 19.08.2017 um 08:17 schrieb Lifepillar: It seems impossible to have autocmd! followed by another command, i.e.: autocmd! some_group | According to `:help autocmd`, autocmd may be followed by another command when the '|' appears before {cmd}. This does not seem to be the case for autocmd!. I

Re: wrapping a series of comma separated words

2017-08-14 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 14.08.2017 um 17:06 schrieb 'Andy Wokula' via vim_use: Am 11.08.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Ben Fritz: On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 10:57:27 AM UTC-5, Chris Lott wrote: I'm constantly needing to wrap a series of comma separated titles with html tags, so this: John has pu

Re: wrapping a series of comma separated words

2017-08-14 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 11.08.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Ben Fritz: On Thursday, August 10, 2017 at 10:57:27 AM UTC-5, Chris Lott wrote: I'm constantly needing to wrap a series of comma separated titles with html tags, so this: John has published work in foo, fubar, boo review, and many more. Becomes this

Re: Bug/non-determinism in output of maparg() and map commands

2017-05-28 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 22.05.2017 um 20:14 schrieb Brett Stahlman: I would like to be able to save and restore mappings programmatically. In order to do so, however, I need to be able to determine the exact lhs and rhs used to create the mapping. I had assumed the lhs/rhs members of the dictionary returned by maparg

Re: Problematic behavior caused by mapping in matchit plugin

2017-05-12 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 11.05.2017 um 18:52 schrieb Efraim Yawitz: Hi, The docs for the matchit plugin say that the mappings in it may cause strange behavior, but I think this example is worth noting. I was trying to do yV% on lines like this: #ifdef SOMETHING ... #endif //SOMETHING expecting to yank all the line

Re: Start vim with a datestamped filename?

2017-03-13 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 12.03.2017 um 21:56 schrieb George Skuse: Hi, vim -c "silent edit filename.txt" starts vim with an unsaved file named filename.txt... I'd like to have the filename dynamically datestamped (MMdd_hhmmss), ie: filename-20170312_165737.txt Does anyone know how this could be accomplished a

Re: What is gained by the extra level of map indirection recommended in help?

2016-12-10 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 29.11.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Brett Stahlman: The 'write-plugin' section of the help recommends the following 3-level map approach: map ,c TypecorrAdd noremap

Re: after vim 8 installation, yanking (yy) doesn't work in global command and macros

2016-11-04 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 04.11.2016 um 21:35 schrieb Bryce Orgill: Was that a change that was put in version 8? In my opinion that is a big change. It now means I can't yank in the global command or in macros. I have macros and scripts that use this. It means it won't work there. I have to also use the 'set clipb

Re: strip filename from full path in small vim

2016-09-28 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 28.09.2016 um 18:45 schrieb Bee: In a 'normal' version of vim :lcd %:h will change to the directory of the current file by stripping the filename from the full path. But in a 'small' vim '%:h' does not exist and '%' refers to the full file path. Is there a way in 'small' vim to strip the f

Re: [Bulk] Using g://w to filter a buffer

2016-03-31 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 31.03.2016 um 17:40 schrieb Axel Bender: Given the following description in the docs "The global commands work by first scanning through the [range] lines and marking each line where a match occurs (for a multi-line pattern, only the start of the match matters). In a second scan the [cmd] is

Re: Packages: best practices?

2016-03-28 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 26.03.2016 um 21:03 schrieb Gary Johnson: On 2016-03-26, Andy Wokula wrote: if has("vim_starting") " init on VimEnter else " init immediately endif That's a very odd application of has(). The has() function is clearly intended to indicate presence or absence of some feature that is

Re: [Bulk] Feature or bug? dw oddities

2016-02-04 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 03.02.2016 um 11:13 schrieb Elmar Hinz: Hello, I am working on a Python clone of vim, which requires to inspect Vim behaviour in detail. Some behaviour looks odd and I like to know if it is a bug or what is the reasoning of that behaviour. This is my first observation: Given, cursor on first

Re: [Bulk] programmatically determine blockwise visual mode

2015-12-04 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 04.12.2015 um 13:01 schrieb Christian Brabandt: Hi, let's say I have script, that wants to work on the last visually selected region, e.g. highlight it. Is there any way, to find out, whether the last block-wise selected region used '$' for selection (see :h v_$) or not? This matters, since w

Re: [Bulk] Question about language specific mappings

2015-11-20 Thread &#x27;Andy Wokula&#x27; via vim_use
Am 19.11.2015 um 23:23 schrieb Dmitri Vereshchagin: More precisely question is about unmapping. I am using keymap to edit texts in Russian. In my vimrc I have set keymap=russian-jcukenwin set iminsert=0 set imsearch=-1 When langmap mappings are enabled it translates `#' to `№'