On Mon 21 Apr 2014 at 02:28:20 PDT Christian Brabandt wrote:
That is what external commands are good for. I would use comm(1)
#v+
/tmp/compare % comm -23 <(sort allwords.txt) <(sort mywords.txt)
That's probably the best solution if you're on Unix, Linux or OS X.
Not sure if comm(1) is availab
On Fri 27 Dec 2013 at 01:22:26 PST Tony Mechelynck wrote:
There are no buffer-local or window-local color schemes; however,
most of the highlight groups are filetype-specific; then they are
linked to a few "generic" groups. You could change the colours of
most of the help highlight groups by
On 01/26/2013 04:41 PM, Charlie Kester wrote:
Hi vimmers,
I'm editing a fairly lengthy manpage, so I'd like to be able to use vim
folding to make the task easier.
I'd like to use fdm=fold-marker, to make my folds persistent, but I
can't figure out how to make this compati
Hi vimmers,
I'm editing a fairly lengthy manpage, so I'd like to be able to use vim
folding to make the task easier.
I'd like to use fdm=fold-marker, to make my folds persistent, but I
can't figure out how to make this compatible with troff-style comments.
If I select a set of lines and pre
On 10/30/2012 09:26 AM, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
On 12:42 Tue 30 Oct , Adolfo Olivera wrote:
Hi,
Would somebody explain me essentially what is the :source command used
for and how.
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On 10/01/2012 12:48 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 10/01/12 14:17, Boyko Bantchev wrote:
In my personal opinion, saying that "Vim's learning curve is steep"
is nothing but a gross exaggeration. Why should it be? Are Vim's
potential users computer illiterates, incapable of adapting to simple
albeit ne
On 06/03/2012 11:14 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:38:31AM EDT, sinbad wrote:
my question is are there any terminal implementations that support
more than 256 colors in text consoles not in gui.
Konsole and derivatives support a 24-bit color palette, i.e. they let you
displ
On 05/28/2012 06:33 AM, sinbad wrote:
i have a text as follows.
apple banana
cat dog
elephant fan
goat hen
i want to make the above text aligned as follows.
apple banana
cat dog
elephant fan
goat hen
is there any simple technique without doing to manually.
If you don't
On 04/18/2012 09:27 PM, Paul Isambert wrote:
Phil Dobbin a écrit:
On 18/04/2012 21:56, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Phil Dobbin wrote:
I posted several weeks back postulating about producing a hard
copy (or dead tree if you so wish) version of the Vim User&
Reference manual.
I suppose you will
On 01/10/2012 11:02 AM, Boyko Bantchev wrote:
1. I strongly believe that, in general, a dark background
reduces the eye strain.
When they get older, many people (myself included) find it more
difficult to read light text on a dark background. I don't know if it's
eye strain, or if it's
On 01/10/2012 01:01 AM, ConcreteVitamin wrote:
Please share your the name of your favorite color scheme, your working
environment (gvim under windows 7/ubuntu terminal... etc), and any other
specific settings! It would be best if you share a link to snapshots.
I like a very simple scheme that u
On 12/16/2011 09:35 PM, Marty Fried wrote:
I have a slightly different theory... Ctrl-H is the ASCII backspace
character, so it was chosen for back. Ctrl-J is the linefeed character,
so it was chosen for down. Both of those match each other. The other
two just happen to be nearby, so they we
On 12/16/2011 05:57 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 16/12/11 13:42, "Sven Guckes" wrote:
"you will be assimilated. resistance is futile." hehe
I just commit the ultimate heresy& use the arrow keys. Lead him away ;-)
I'll have to join you in the heretics prison. Not being a touch typist,
I've
On Thu 03 Feb 2011 at 00:38:48 PST ConcreteVitamin wrote:
Hi,
I am capable of very basic manipulations of vim, and benefit from
editting my .vimrc file according to various tutorials. However, I'd
like to get to know Vim, specifically about its scripts and advanced
manipulations.
Recently I jus
On Thu 29 Apr 2010 at 20:06:47 PDT stosss wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Tony Mechelynck
wrote:
Of course, if you're already over 13 (I'll be 60 next January ;-) ) the
birth date doesn't have to be bogus. :-)
You are less then 6 years my senior.
He's only eight months older than
On Fri 09 Apr 2010 at 17:58:08 PDT Pedro Henrique Linhares wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:49 AM, John Little <[1]john.b.lit...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I think you're swimming against the strengths of vim. In vim if you
find yourself doing something over and over again you stop and find a
b
gave on one of Paul Krugman's NYT blog articles).
and Charlie Kester replied:
Tony, I found your pejorative use of word "conservative" quite
offensive.
...
Maybe we should leave politics out of this mailinglist, eh?
"conservative learning theory" does not have much to do
On Thu 08 Apr 2010 at 07:28:22 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
Yeah, thinking about it, it looks like we're once more against the
conservative <=> progressive theories of learning (Reminds me of a
recent comment I gave on one of Paul Krugman's NYT blog articles).
Tony, I found your pejorative use
On Fri 12 Feb 2010 at 09:48:30 PST Gary Johnson wrote:
"Console Vim", as you call it, can also tell the difference between
typing and pasting if it is compiled with the right features and is
run in an appropriate terminal. I paste formatted text into my vim
running in an xterm all the time. I
On Wed 16 Sep 2009 at 22:09:40 PDT Suresh Govindachar wrote:
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>
>Hello,
>
>People say that since Mac OS is based on Unix (BSD?), working in a Mac command
>shell is just like working in any Unix command shell.
>
>
>But on this email list, I have come across the treatment of VIM on Mac
>as a speci
On Tue 15 Sep 2009 at 02:53:20 PDT Yongwei Wu wrote:
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>Although I am not one of them, I guess there are still some people
>using a text-only MUA. HTML messages are irritating for them.
For the record, it wasn't Linda's use of html that irritated me. It was
the entirely gratuitous way she began
On Sat 12 Sep 2009 at 04:25:15 PDT Ismael Barros? wrote:
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>Looks like ":wq!" on the back would actually be a great conversation
>starter!
Which would be ironic, because from vim's perspective it's actually a
conversation ender.
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On Thu 10 Sep 2009 at 19:58:03 PDT Linda W wrote:
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> (If you can't read this in HTML, you are deprived, and maybe, in the
> internet "3rd world", my condolences, as documents structure can't be
> properly represented in plain text, (unless your eyes have built-in
> XML/HTML or LaTeX code inte
On Fri 07 Aug 2009 at 12:45:56 PDT Ra?l N??ez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
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>People who don't prune the quotes is annoying, certainly, because they
>force you to read sometimes hundreds of lines to get to the real answer,
>but at least they force you to read in the proper order, top to bottom,
>so i
On Mon 20 Jul 2009 at 05:14:05 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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>Well, I use the diff program as included in my SuSE distribution,
>either from the command-line, or implicitly from vimdiff (my 'diffexpr'
>option is empty). I suppose there is nothing extraordinary in this.
>
>"diff --version" replies w
On Sun 12 Jul 2009 at 06:08:56 PDT Dominique Pell? wrote:
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>Specifying colors as #0f0f0f is only for the GUI (guifbg=#0f0f0f) but can't
>be done for the terminal since ctermgui= requires a color name or color index.
>
>So what can you do? I highly recommend using the CSApprox plugin, or
>the gu
On Fri 10 Jul 2009 at 10:01:21 PDT Simon Ruderich wrote:
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>On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:17:36AM +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Till now, I've been happy with my small "view as HTML" script, but with
>> the more elaborate structure nee
On Tue 30 Jun 2009 at 19:31:41 PDT meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
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>
>
>Hi,
>
>I want to make from this input (example):
>
>a d f g h
>b c d e f
>g h i
>a i
>b f g j
>
>this output
>
>
>a d f g h
> b c d e f
>g h i
>a i
> b f g j
>
>
>is there any vim scri
On Fri 22 May 2009 at 10:51:48 PDT Matthew Winn wrote:
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>I'll say that again:
>
>It's a RIGHT bracket, and it takes you RIGHT to the definition of a
>function.
Thanks, I get it now. Sorry for being dense!
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On Thu 21 May 2009 at 11:15:55 PDT Matthew Winn wrote:
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>On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:29:33 -0700, Charlie Kester
> wrote:
>
>> Another one that took a long time for me to learn was ^] which doesn't
>> seem to have any obvious connection to the word "tag".
&g
On Tue 19 May 2009 at 10:56:15 PDT Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
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>>Once I'd established the habit of exiting vi/vim this way, it was easy
>>to remember to use 'w' by itself to write the file without exiting, and
>>to use 'q!' to quit while discarding any changes.
>>For me, it's not about saving keystro
On Mon 18 May 2009 at 16:25:50 PDT John Beckett wrote:
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>I totally agree with your analysis; I would go a little further and say
>that many Vim tips and guides are more of a "look at how clever I am"
>presentation than an honest attempt to engage a new user and show them
>wtf they should do.
Th
On Mon 18 May 2009 at 13:45:52 PDT Tim Chase wrote:
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>> Am I the only one who uses 'ZZ' to write/quit?
>>
>> 2 adjacent keys,
>>
>>
>>
>> vs
>>
>> <:>
>> or
>> <:>
>>
>> which to me is a *lot* simpler/easier.
>
>Fewer keystrokes for this special case, yes. However, I find it
On Tue 05 May 2009 at 20:00:52 PDT Ben Fritz wrote:
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>Woah! No wonder the Vim Tips seem overwhelming...
>
>Don't look at them all at once, browse for areas that interest you:
>http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Browse
>
>After you've got that out of the way, pressing "Random page" two or
>three t
On Wed 08 Apr 2009 at 20:23:15 PDT bill lam wrote:
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>When I tried to set sig color to either gray or darkgray, mutt
>complained that there ain't such color. How did you to do that?
I use a 256-color terminal and in my muttrc I specify the colors by
number. E.g., color235.
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On Wed 08 Apr 2009 at 00:17:49 PDT Chris Bannister wrote:
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>On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote:
>>
>> I hesitated before joining into this discussion, but decided that I do
>> want to point out that this is a discussion list devoted to vim a
On Sun 29 Mar 2009 at 15:03:39 PDT Tony Mechelynck wrote:
>And even without Vim (which I could use to edit mails in SeaMonkey but
>usually don't, because the mailer itself is certainly no "crippleware",
>it includes most of what I need) you can usually use Ctrl-Shift-Down
>followed by Del, and voi
On Sat 28 Mar 2009 at 12:55:54 PDT James Freer wrote:
>A: if the message is replied to effectively and efficiently. Why should
>i have to spend time deleting all the trailers from every email i reply
>to.
I hesitated before joining into this discussion, but decided that I do
want to point out
On Sun 25 Jan 2009 at 08:08:10 PST bill lam wrote:
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>After reading white-on-black for several hours, I found it is OK
>except the "blue on black" combination. Since blue is dark blue
>#ff on xterm. It is really hard to read. I have to use Xresource
>to change color4 (blue) to #00aaff (ligh
On Sat 24 Jan 2009 at 18:51:31 PST Jesus Sanchez wrote:
>When I said colors are better identified with black backgrounds I was
>trying to say that if you put a black square, inside that scuare you
>put two lines of 1 pixel width. One line is a pure red and other line
>is a little modification of p
On Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 14:41:37 PST Bram Moolenaar wrote:
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>I don't think we need to post a FAQ to the maillist. If someone wants
>to read the FAQ he simply types "vim faq" in his favorite search
>engine, and it should show up as the first result.
Not the Vim FAQ. I'm talking about an FAQ that
On Thu 11 Dec 2008 at 07:58:49 PST fritzophrenic wrote:
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>I really do wonder sometimes, though...there have to be 4 threads a
>month about how to unsubscribe.
Perhaps the answer should be in an FAQ which is periodically posted to
the list?
A very brief FAQ could include:
1. Info about maintain
On Wed 03 Dec 2008 at 16:13:24 PST Tony Mechelynck wrote:
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>It depends what you call "more elegant". Personally I don't like in
>the middle of a mapping.
Can you expand on that? What's wrong with in a mapping?
I sense there's a subtlety here that might help me (and others)
better understa
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