Is there a way to move a cursor down to a certain column and create a line at the same time?

When the cursor is positions, say, at column 39, in either normal or insert mode, I want to create a line below that and position the cursor at column 39 in it. What is the most efficient way to do this? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply be

Re: Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

OK it should work now on Ruby 1.8.7 I don't have a man page yet, but I'll work on that, and a language flag On May 7, 4:07 pm, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:45:18PM EDT, Daniel Choi wrote: > > I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project,

Re: Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

Thanks for pointing this out. I will rectify. On May 7, 4:07 pm, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:45:18PM EDT, Daniel Choi wrote: > > I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project, `goog`. > > > goog is a command line tool that lets you perfo

Perform Google searches from inside Vim or on the command line, in plain text, with `goog`

I'm happy to announce my latest open source mini-project, `goog`. goog is a command line tool that lets you perform Google searches from the command line. Along with your query, you can specify the number of pages of results you want and the time range you are interested in. You can output the res

todo.rb is a todo list manager that uses ed edit syntax

This is not strictly Vim related, but since this project pertains to Vim's ancestor ed, I thought it appropriate to post this announcement here. todo.rb is a todo list tool with a unobtrusive, noncaptive, Unix-style interface. It leverages Unix filters to let you view your tasks by context or pro

Re: elinks.vim

On Jan 19, 5:41 am, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani wrote: > Anyway, I have a problem: if I go on an URL and stroke \o or \O, the > plugin says > "Opened lik in elinks" in the status bar... but it is not true: nothing > happens! > I'm on kubuntu 11.10. Do you have elinks open in another window? One ins

Re: *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: elinks.vim

Could someone who knows how to make a vim-addon-manager compatible plugin be kind enough to fork my github project and add the requisite metadata stuff? I can pull the changes back in. On Jan 18, 8:03 am, Marc Weber wrote: > > Is it possible? > > Use this as name : "github:danchoi/elinks.vim" >

Re: elinks.vim

When I have time I'll learn how vim-addon-manager works & upgrade elinks.vim and some of my other plugins to work with it. Thanks for the tip. On Jan 18, 4:27 am, Giacomo 'giotti' Mariani wrote: > >  elinks.vim > > >  Daniel Choi Jan 17 06:06PM -0800 > &g

elinks.vim

This lightweight plugin integrates Vim with elinks. https://github.com/danchoi/elinks.vim -- 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

Is there any way to have Vim react to a notification from another process?

I'm trying to figure out a way to show some kind of alert inside Vim that is not triggered by a keypress from the user (CursorMoved or CursorHold), but by some notification from the environment that Vim is running is. Is there any way to do this, or is this just impossible? For example, the elink

Introducing Poddb, a podcast aggregator with a Vim interface

ug reports. Daniel Choi Cambridge, MA -- Sent from vmail. http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html -- 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

About how many vim users are out there?

Is there any way even to estimate this to an order of magnitude? -- 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

Re: Announcing ri.vim interactive ri mode for Vim

d. I hope that 0.0.5 fixes that. Dan On Jul 7, 4:58 pm, Sung Pae wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > I published a new Vim plugin / Ruby gem, ri.vim. It's an interactive > > ri mode for Vim. ri is the command line documentation printer for &g

Announcing ri.vim interactive ri mode for Vim

Hi everyone, I published a new Vim plugin / Ruby gem, ri.vim. It's an interactive ri mode for Vim. ri is the command line documentation printer for Ruby. http://danielchoi.com/software/ri_vim.html Beta-tester feedback would be great. Many thanks, -- You received this message from the "vim_use"

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

...@gmail.com subject: Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Daniel Choi wrote: > Please let me know how it goes. Now it works great. Thanks a lot. Minor annoyance though: Now the leader \ works for all commands except

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Daniel Choi wrote: > If > and < don't work for you, then try these: >>> will play the next track > << will play the previous Now > and < work. >&g

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

_use@googlegroups.com cc: dhc...@gmail.com subject: Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Daniel Choi wrote: > Today I'm releasing a Vim plugin that lets you control iTunes without > leaving Vim. > http://dan

Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

2:00 2011 to: vim_use@googlegroups.com cc: dhc...@gmail.com subject: Re: Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem) On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Daniel Choi wrote: > Today I'm releasing a Vim plugin that lets you control iTunes without > leaving Vim.

Re: vim plugins & www.vim.org - future

I applaud this effort. I started writing VimScript applications recently, and I ended up wrapping my Vim applications and plugins in Ruby gems because I think it's significantly easier for people to install and get up and running that way. I know you're addressing other issues besides ease of ins

Control iTunes from Vim with ViTunes (a vim plugin packaged as a Ruby gem)

d packaged as a Ruby gem. Thanks everyone. Daniel Choi Cambridge, MA http://kajasoftware.com http://danielchoi.com/software -- 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, visi

Introducing Vnews, a Vim-based newsfeed reader

I'm releasing another VimScript/Ruby application today called Vnews. It's a lightweight newsfeed reader that works inside a Vim session and uses MySQL to store feed data. http://danielchoi.com/software/vnews.html I welcome feature suggestions and bug reports. Daniel Choi Cam

introducing SoyWiki, a wiki for Vim users

Building on what I learned from making Vmail, the Vim client for Gmail, I made another VimScript+Ruby application. It's called SoyWiki. It's wiki engine built on top of Vim and Git. http://danielchoi.com/software/soywiki.html If you're interested in using this sort of software, please try it o

Re: introducing vmail

Thanks Grahame for this detailed bug report. Could you also let me know what system you're using -- the operating system and version, the version of Ruby (ruby -v), and the version of Vim (vim --version)? On Dec 19, 4:11 pm, Grahame Blackwood wrote: > On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 03:04 PM

Re: introducing vmail

> > >http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html > > > This is the first release of vmail so there is a lot of room for > > improvement and feedback will be highly appreciated > > > Thanks, > > > Daniel Choi > > Hi Daniel > > I loaded your vmail

Re: introducing vmail

Script application. > > >http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html > > > This is the first release of vmail so there is a lot of room for > > improvement and feedback will be highly appreciated > > > Thanks, > > > Daniel Choi > > Hi Daniel > > I l

Re: introducing vmail

fectively when reading > email because of the number of links and other information available. > > On Dec 14, 2:49pm, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > > > > > > > Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working > > on over the las

Re: introducing vmail

Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 05:33 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:49:01PM EST, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > >> Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working > > >> on over the last two weeks, but which I've

Re: introducing vmail

ec 14, 2010 at 02:49:01PM EST, Daniel Choi wrote: > > >> Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working > >> on over the last two weeks, but which I've been daydreaming about for > >> over a year. > > >> It'

Re: introducing vmail

ibute some commentary along these lines. On Dec 15, 11:33 am, Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:49:01PM EST, Daniel Choi wrote: > > Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working > > on over the last two weeks, but which I've be

Re: introducing vmail

Thanks for the suggestion. I do want to make vmail gmail-user- friendly... On Dec 15, 4:06 am, "A. S. Budden" wrote: > On 14 December 2010 19:49, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > Today I'm releasing a new open source project which I've been working > > on over t

Re: introducing vmail

You're right, there is no way to call it from vim directly yet, but I'll make sure you can in a future release. Thank you for suggesting that. On Dec 15, 9:50 am, Karol Samborski wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > I've just installed vmail and it's great! But one thing is annoying, > it cannot be called

Re: introducing vmail

That's a very good idea. I'll put this on the to-do list. On Dec 15, 8:01 am, Stephan Weller wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > > It's called vmail. It's a Vim client for Gmail. It's a hybrid > > Ruby/VimScript application. > > actually I am also quite interested about writing Mails in vim (seeing that

Re: introducing vmail

Thanks for the suggestion. I look forward to making a Windows compatible release too. I hope some Window developers can help me with this. On Dec 15, 4:06 am, "A. S. Budden" wrote: > On 14 December 2010 19:49, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > Today I'm releasing a new ope

introducing vmail

m/software/vmail.html This is the first release of vmail so there is a lot of room for improvement and feedback will be highly appreciated Thanks, Daniel Choi -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are reply

Re: EOL vs lbr when writing prose

Thanks. I'll look at breakindent. On Feb 23, 4:51 pm, Tom wrote: > > This is normal text. > > >   This is indented text that has hanging indents > >   that are generated by EOFs and spaces at the > >   beginning of each line. > > Yes, that's the idea. --~--~-~--~~~--

Re: EOL vs lbr when writing prose

To illustrate what I meant: This is normal text. This is indented text that has hanging indents that are generated by EOFs and spaces at the beginning of each line. There seems to be no way with Vim to display the text above using soft wrapping. On Feb 23, 12:35 pm, Tom wrote: > > Does

Re: EOL vs lbr when writing prose

Thanks. Very good points. But another big problem I have with soft wrapping in Vim is that it actually makes indented text harder to work with. If you want to indent a block of text -- like a block quotation, or bulleted text in a list -- in Vim, you do this by inserting line breaks and putting

EOL vs lbr when writing prose

I've been writing my text documents in vim using hard line breaks and reflowing the text as needed with gqap (via a shortcut). Then I saw this blog post http://tech.geoff.me/2008/05/vim-word-processor.html and tried using Vim in a more word processor-y mode, with soft line wrapping. After abou

Re: shortcut for piping text through uni2ascii?

Thank you. I was already doing the up arrow thing. But your mapping is just what I needed. Thanks. On Feb 18, 9:46 pm, "John Beckett" wrote: > Daniel Choi wrote: > > This is what I type on the command line each time after selecting > > the text: > > > &l

shortcut for piping text through uni2ascii?

Sorry if this is a newbie question: This is what I type on the command line each time after selecting the text: <,'>!uni2ascii -eq I'd like to shorten this into a keyboard shortcut. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: how do you create a gutter or textwidth threshold for softwrapping with linebreak?

Thanks a lot Ben. This is great help and clarification. On Feb 13, 2:55 pm, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Feb 13, 10:52 am, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt,*.rdoc,README,TODO,CHANGELOG,NOTES > > setlocal lbr > > You should also set wrap, in case i

how do you create a gutter or textwidth threshold for softwrapping with linebreak?

For writing and editing prose text files, I have these settings in my .vimrc: autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.txt,*.rdoc,README,TODO,CHANGELOG,NOTES \ setlocal expandtab softtabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 formatoptions=1 \ comments=s1:/*,ex:*/,://,b:#,:%,:XCOMM,fb:-,fb:*,fb: +,fb:.,fb:> auto

Re: yaml syntax highlighting flaws

Apostrophes in strings seems to have the same bad effect. On Dec 13, 10:37 pm, Daniel Choi wrote: > YAML syntax highlighting gets messed up when there are string values > with HTML tags. This throws off all the colors from that point onward. > Does anyone know an easy way to stop

yaml syntax highlighting flaws

YAML syntax highlighting gets messed up when there are string values with HTML tags. This throws off all the colors from that point onward. Does anyone know an easy way to stop HTML from triggering color changes? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from

move a window off to another tab?

Is there a way to move a window in the current tab into another tab? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

easiest way to do markdown blockquoting?

In Markdown, the recommended markup for a blockquoted region is to put a ">" character plus a space before each line of the blockquote. Any recommendations for a good way to automate this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.

is there a recommended textwidth for documentation?

Is there any consensus whether you use should a textwidth of 70 or 80 or any other value when writing text documents such as README, INSTALL, etc? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vi

Re: is there a shortcut for underlining a word with dashes on the next line?

Thank you On Oct 26, 11:37 am, Tony Mechelynck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/10/08 16:28, Daniel Choi wrote: > > > > > > > Thank you all for the help. > > > I'm using John Beckett's solution now. But I'm interested in learning >

Re: is there a shortcut for underlining a word with dashes on the next line?

is function -- which takes a parameter -- to a key or key sequence? Many thanks. On Oct 25, 6:56 pm, "John Beckett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Choi wrote: > > I use Markdown for a lot of things, and it would be > > convenient to be able to type things lik

is there a shortcut for underlining a word with dashes on the next line?

I use Markdown for a lot of things, and it would be convenient to be able to type things like this: Header == What's the easiest way to output just enough equal signs or dashes to match the character length of the previous line? I'd like a solution that doesn't require manually counting the

Re: how to you print the path to current file into buffer?

Thank you Tim. That worked. On Oct 23, 12:05 pm, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to insert the path of the file I'm currently editing into the > > active buffer. Is there any way to do that short of writing a function? > > you can use "expand('%:p:h')" (which can be done with co

how to you print the path to current file into buffer?

I'd like to insert the path of the file I'm currently editing into the active buffer. Is there any way to do that short of writing a function? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.or