Re: Automatically open new files in tabs

Ben, AK: Thanks for the help. I did a bit of reading and now understand the purpose/functionality of tabs in Vim much better. $ alias vim='vim -p' Got me most of the way there. With this Bash alias if I open a bunch of files at once they will open in a separate tab each. I also mapped ":

setting the name of the swap file?

Hi, Is it possible to change the name of the swap file that Vim uses? I have just started using a centralized location for swapfiles with the 'directory' option. However, I am running into a problem of name space collision, or lack of same. Often I edit files with the same name in different dir

Re: Perl indent in vim 7.3

On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, S Krishnakumar wrote: > >> Hello, >> I recently moved to Vim 7.3 from Vim 7.2. I use Vim primarily for coding >> Perl. The first thing I noticed today was that the indenting is not what I >> would expect-- >> Code

Filtering text through external commands

How do I set up a mapping to make the currently selected text (visual mode) get processed by an external command? I have a bunch of scripts that do text processing (mostly perl and bash) that I want to process the current buffer in vim. To process the whole file, I can do: map x :%! external_

Conditional bundle loading?

I would like to know if there is a way to conditionally load a bundle, or if there is an way to load a bundle manually. I was getting really long load times (on the order of 30 seconds) for vim (7.3.230 OS X), through some effort I tracked this down to the syntastic bundle. I like this bundle

Syntastic bundle causes slow startup on OS X

After some troubleshooting, I discovered that the excessively long vim startup times I was experiencing were caused by the Syntastic bundle. I was seeing startup times of 15 to 30+ seconds for a new file. However, I was only seeing this on Mac OSX (Snow Leopard, Tiger), but not on Ubuntu Linux

Re: Conditional bundle loading?

On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Off-topic: Why is this posted in reply to "Gvim crashing in xmonad"? Not sure. > > > Matt Martini, Thu 2011-09-22 @ 13:47:30-0400: >> I would like to know if there is a way to conditionally load a bundle, >

Re: Using vim to syntax highlight stdin

On May 22, 2012, at 12:14 AM, Magnus Woldrich wrote: > On May 22, Scott (Scott) wrote: >> My question is about preventing pagination. I'd like to use Vim syntax >> highlighting to highlight my program output but I do NOT want to Vim to >> paginate the output. > > You want the data highlighted on

autocmd pattern exclusion?

I have an autocmd that I would like to trigger for all files, except a certain file. Is there a way to write this? I'm thinking something like: autocmd BufReadPost *, !.git/COMMIT_EDITMSG Thanks, Matt -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your

Re: autocmd pattern exclusion?

On Nov 28, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Andy Wokula wrote: > Am 28.11.2012 17:31, schrieb Matt Martini: >> I have an autocmd that I would like to trigger for all files, except a >> certain file. Is there a way to write this? >> >> I'm thinking something like: >>

Re: Is there a setting that controls how long error messages are displayed for?

On Jan 1, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Ivan wrote: > I recently tried to access a non-existant colorscheme (:colorscheme > idontexist) and got the expected error message ("Cannot find color > scheme..."), but was surprised how quickly it disappeared (after about one > second). Is there a setting that cont