Re: Announcement: Vim Recipes - Free Cookbook

2009-05-21 Thread Matthew Winn
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". It's a right bracket, and it takes you right to the definition of a f

Re: Announcement: Vim Recipes - Free Cookbook

2009-05-22 Thread Matthew Winn
On Thu, 21 May 2009 17:28:57 -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Thu 21 May 2009 at 11:15:55 PDT Matthew Winn wrote: > > > >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 d

Re: Announcement: Vim Recipes - Free Cookbook

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Winn
membering it. I mean, seriously: when did any regular vi or vim user need a mnemonic to save a file? > -- On my Belgian keyboard, the colon needs no shift, whixh by your > argument makes :x "fewer" keystrokes than ZZ The same, surely, unless your return key hits itself. -- Matt

Re: Using beautiful fonts vs. monospace plaintext.

2009-09-15 Thread Matthew Winn
;it works for me and if it doesn't for you that's just tough". So I can confidently predict that ten, twenty, a hundred years from now formatted email will still be a complete mess, and it'll still true that the only way to send s

Re: proportional and styled fonts != embedded spam

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Winn
ed about blind users you wouldn't be advocating a policy that's aimed squarely at people who can see a whole screen full of visual cues. -- Matthew Winn --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: changing what counts as a paragraph

2009-09-21 Thread Matthew Winn
, but there are people who are adamant that they do everything faster one way even though they don't. People hate to admit error, even if that means building a fantasy world in which what they want to believe is true. You insist that reading top-posted messages is faster, but I bet a clock wou

Re: How powerful is language build in vim compare with the language build in emacs?

2010-02-17 Thread Matthew Winn
port regular expressions the use of such expressions looks like a trick that is difficult to understand, but only to people whose knowledge of the language is lacking. -- Matthew Winn -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Re: [patch] fixed grammatical errors in vim help files using LanguageTool

2010-05-24 Thread Matthew Winn
ky for > +Emacs takes way too much time to start up and run, it is to big and bulky for It missed the second to => too. -- Matthew Winn -- 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: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Winn
pplication, but that's not terribly useful.) It's far from ubiquitous, and very few people are going to go to the trouble of installing a new language just to use a plugin. -- Matthew Winn -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your repl

Re: bug on vim display when lines and columns are set

2008-10-14 Thread Matthew Winn
on't match the real terminal size there's not much Vim can do about it except trust that you know what you're doing. -- Matthew Winn --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: Issues with tabbing being a 1 relative spacing instead of 0 relative

2008-11-14 Thread Matthew Winn
interfered and I haven't had the time. -- Matthew Winn --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: Intesting blog posts of 10 year vim user switching to emacs

2008-11-18 Thread Matthew Winn
as at the time the dominant method of flow control. Also, I have a certain amount of distaste for anything associated with Richard Stallman. -- Matthew Winn --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: "ctrl+s" doesn't work.

2008-12-31 Thread Matthew Winn
s there are still people around who are using something like 3-wire RS-232 there's no reason not to disable ^S/^Q flow control while running Vim. I've certainly never had any problem treating them as ordinary characters. -- Matthew Winn --~--~-~--~~~---~--