Re: DrChip's website is back!

2012-03-07 Thread Marty Fried
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Charles Campbell charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov wrote: Yes, its back! Albeit at a new webhost (apply your favorite search engine to hostbig). You may find it at: http://www.drchip.org/ So, I guess you're a little PO'd at Nasa FCU? :) FWIW, I know exactly

Re: completion based on a set of files

2012-01-12 Thread Marty Fried
it. -- Marty Fried Press Enter to exit. -- 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: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-04 Thread Marty Fried
should know what they are doing, and is working without protection on purpose. Also, I'm surprised that Vim would even know. I'm curious now about what sort of protection there is. -- Marty Fried -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below

Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-04 Thread Marty Fried
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Joan Miquel Torres Rigo joanmiq...@mallorcaweb.net wrote: 2012/1/4 Marty Fried ma...@leftcoast-usa.com: I'm surprised to hear this - it seems to go against the philosophy that someone with root permission should know what they are doing, and is working

Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-04 Thread Marty Fried
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Charles Campbell charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov wrote: Marty Fried wrote: I agree. That is why I believe that if someone is using root account for something, it is probably for maintenance, or to fix a problem. It may be that the person has root access

Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-03 Thread Marty Fried
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Graham Lawrence gl00...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you all for your help, but I really can't use your recommendations without screwing up something else on my system. I have a script which runs automatically on system startup which immediately references this

Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-03 Thread Marty Fried
Further thoughts: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Marty Fried ma...@leftcoast-usa.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Graham Lawrence gl00...@gmail.com wrote: I thank you all for your help, but I really can't use your recommendations without screwing up something else on my system. I

Re: highlighting in terminal

2012-01-03 Thread Marty Fried
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM, sc tooth...@swbell.net wrote: On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 13:08:33 Chris Lott wrote: I am using the candycode theme (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1635), which works well enough. However, while searching using EasyMotion (which

Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-02 Thread Marty Fried
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Graham Lawrence gl00...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, should have been more emphatic, I have the ntfs-3g driver. Vim is the *only* app that has a problem writing to this device, all others do so freely. I have to keep windows to run my printer and tv, but virtually

Re: Can't write to ntfs file system

2012-01-01 Thread Marty Fried
discussion. Good luck... -- Marty Fried -- 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: h j k l -- keys

2011-12-18 Thread Marty Fried
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.netwrote: 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

Re: h j k l -- keys

2011-12-16 Thread Marty Fried
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 were enlisted to fill in. In the old days, people actually knew this type of information - or at least I did, so I assume others did too. Marty

Re: What does ^S work?

2011-12-04 Thread Marty Fried
character. So if you accidentally press ^S, then pressing ^Q will cancel it. This is a function of the terminal, and probably not vim at all. Vim probably doesn't even see it, but should not interfere, as it is possible some people might still use a remote terminal and need this ability. Marty Fried

Re: Protected a.k.a. pinned tabs?

2011-11-17 Thread Marty Fried
I don't know if it exists, either, but I like the idea. I would like for it to (optionally) be directory-specific, so for a given directory or project, a certain file, or set of files could be pinned - such as say, the css files, or a main file, or some combination. There is a way to register

Re: Problem with text drag-and-drop from browser to gvim

2011-09-04 Thread Marty Fried
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 8:40 AM, AK andrei@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I often need to copy and paste snippets of text from webpages into gvim. The easiest way to do this is to highlight and drag and drop text. Unfortunately, gnome helpfully adds all kinds of tags around the text (when using