Vim after Bram?

2023-09-17 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
People, I have been using Vim for so many decades that I sort of felt that Bram would always be there developing and improving the program - and while I have asked plenty of questions on the lists etc, I never really delved into how many other people contributed to the coding - approx how

Re: Where is Bram?

2023-08-05 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Christian, On 2023-08-06 02:11, Christian Brabandt wrote: Am 2023-08-05 16:30, schrieb Yegappan Lakshmanan: On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 5:53 AM Maxim Kim wrote: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4 I am truly saddened and shocked to hear this news. I have been following

Auto re-width Vertical Split to longest line visible in pane

2022-02-22 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
People, I routinely have a Vim window with two vertical splits giving me three panes - the first two panes are views on a text file and the third pane is a vertical terminal. Is there a way for auto-sizing the width of the two left panes when I am scrolling up and down in them so that the

Re: Sven Guckes passed away

2022-02-21 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Stan, On 2022-02-22 05:47, Stan Brown wrote: That's sad news. I remember a number of interactions with Sven, in email and in various newsgroups, and he was always courteous, and generous with his time. He'll be missed. Bram, I like your idea to dedicate release 9 to his memory. +1 Phil.

Interesting uses of VimScript?

2022-01-15 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
People, Although I have been using Vim for decades, I have only ever had to occasionally use trivial recorded scripts for some sort of repetitive editing uses. After seeing the number of posts recently about VS, I was wondering if people could give me some interesting examples of where they

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-06 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
BPJ, On 2021-11-06 07:14, BPJ wrote: Den fre 5 nov. 2021 01:45Philip Rhoades skrev: BPJ, On 2021-11-04 21:39, BPJ wrote: And also VimWiki ! I edit most text with VimWiki in Markdown mode, which allows very easy jumping inside sets of related files. Not sure what you mean there - can

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-04 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Steve, On 2021-11-05 09:30, Steve Litt wrote: BPJ said on Thu, 4 Nov 2021 11:39:30 +0100 And also VimWiki ! I edit most text with VimWiki in Markdown mode, which allows very easy jumping inside sets of related files. /bpj Cool! Right after I finish writing my current book, I plan on

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-04 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
BPJ, On 2021-11-04 21:39, BPJ wrote: And also VimWiki ! I edit most text with VimWiki in Markdown mode, which allows very easy jumping inside sets of related files. Not sure what you mean there - can you elaborate? - it sounds interesting! P. -- Philip Rhoades PO Box 896 Cowra NSW

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-04 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Steve, On 2021-11-04 20:11, Philip Rhoades wrote: Steve, On 2021-11-04 05:38, Steve Litt wrote: 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use said on Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:48:37 +1100 Yegappan, On 2021-11-03 15:21, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ql30pm/vim_turns_30_today

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-04 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Steve, On 2021-11-04 05:38, Steve Litt wrote: 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use said on Wed, 03 Nov 2021 18:48:37 +1100 Yegappan, On 2021-11-03 15:21, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ql30pm/vim_turns_30_today/ Happy 30th Birthday!!! Thanks Bram. Wow! What

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-03 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Yegappan, On 2021-11-03 15:21, Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/ql30pm/vim_turns_30_today/ Happy 30th Birthday!!! Thanks Bram. Wow! What a great program! - I don't think I will ever know all there is to know about Vim but I keep learning! +1 Thanks to

Re: Highlight and annotate plaintext

2021-06-09 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Julius, On 2021-06-08 21:54, Julius Hamilton wrote: Hey, Does anyone know a good command line tool for highlighting and annotating plain text documents? Not syntax highlighting via pattern matching. Just going through a document with a cursor, and highlighting it for the purpose of

Re: VimDIFF - ONLY on the first field of two files ?

2021-04-02 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
vimrc | endif'" - what is "so"? - and there appears to be an unpaired single quote? Any help appreciated! Thanks, Phil. On 2021-04-02 07:22, 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use wrote: Christian, Charles, Bram, Thanks so much for your responses! - they are much appreciated! Phil.

Re: VimDIFF - ONLY on the first field of two files ?

2021-04-02 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
web page. I tried looking at test.sh but I don't understand: -c "if filereadable('vimrc') | so vimrc | endif'" - what is "so"? - and there appears to be an unpaired single quote? Any help appreciated! Thanks, Phil. On 2021-04-02 07:22, 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_u

Re: VimDIFF - ONLY on the first field of two files ?

2021-04-01 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Christian, Charles, Bram, Thanks so much for your responses! - they are much appreciated! Phil. On 2021-04-02 04:01, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Do, 01 Apr 2021, 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use wrote: People, I live in vim and therefore use vimdiff most of the time for my needs but I have

VimDIFF - ONLY on the first field of two files ?

2021-04-01 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
People, I live in vim and therefore use vimdiff most of the time for my needs but I have a use case where I only want to diff on the FIRST field of two files ie the files have lines that look like: [dir|file]name | [D|F] | mtime and I need to be able to have vimdiff only working on the

Re: Happy birthday!

2020-11-02 Thread 'Philip Rhoades' via vim_use
Bram and other Vim contributors, Thanks so much for Vim - I love it! (I have been using it since the beginning). Phil. On 2020-11-03 05:19, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Hello Vim users, 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed. And Vim is more popular than ever