Re: Licensing question: compatibility between Vim license and GPL

2023-10-15 Thread Ruben Safir
no don't use google mail. It sucks On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 8:29 PM Lifepillar wrote: > Can code released under Vim license include third-party code released > under GPLv2 or GPLv3? I have read that Vim license is "GPL-compatible", but > it is not clear to me which way such compatibility works

Re: Sven Guckes passed away

2022-02-21 Thread Ruben Safir
On 2/21/22 10:34, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Mo, 21 Feb 2022, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >> >> Forwarding this text from Antonio Colombo: I am very very sorry to hear this news and my condolences to you and his family. >> >> == >> >> Our friend Sven Guckes died in Berlin on

Re: Vim backup files

2021-10-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 10/18/21 01:29, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Steve! > how did you get past my spam filters > On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 18:18:46 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've used Vim since the 20th century, and of course things keep getting >> better, which means change. As I remember, back in th

Re: Where are vim macros stored

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On 5/28/21 12:34 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > Unless you have changed settings, it's stored in ~/.viminfo but it > can get overwritten upon quitting if you edit it while vim is > configured to (over)write it upon quitting. So if you plan to edit > it, you might want to > > :set viminfo= > > before q

Re: Where are vim macros stored

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On 5/28/21 10:47 AM, Karthick Gururaj wrote: > I'm mostly an observer here - but.. > A. You should know you got a useful and correct response to your question > B. If that is not the answer you are looking for, you should go back > and check the question you asked. > C. Entirely optional - but poli

Re: Where are vim macros stored

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On 5/28/21 10:21 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2021-05-28 10:05, Ruben Safir wrote: >> On 5/28/21 10:02 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: >>>> Where are the vim macros stored. I want to edit them by hand >>> in the register you specified. >> >> that

Re: Where are vim macros stored

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
On 5/28/21 10:02 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: >> Where are the vim macros stored. I want to edit them by hand > in the register you specified. > > Best, > Christian that is not the answer to the question I asked. Where are they STORED. Not how do I access them. Where on the filesystem are th

Where are vim macros stored

2021-05-28 Thread Ruben Safir
Where are the vim macros stored. I want to edit them by hand -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2

Re: Documentation: braces or parentheses

2020-12-06 Thread Ruben Safir
On 12/6/20 12:49 PM, rwmit...@gmail.com wrote: > Might not > have caught on, but is a lot more fun. brac is less char -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrk

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-19 Thread Ruben Safir
On 11/19/20 1:08 PM, hor...@gmail.com wrote: > You know, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I think vim needs an > internal templating system.  no it doesn't, so don't thnink about it so much. vim is fine, if not already over built a little. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 11/17/20 3:24 PM, rwmit...@gmail.com wrote: > I would think sed is best choice as the entire substitution could be > scripted. > LISP > On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 2:40:26 PM UTC-5 hor...@gmail.com wrote: > > All, > > I need to quickly enter data for thousands of structured doc

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: .swp files

2020-11-05 Thread Ruben Safir
On 11/5/20 4:19 PM, Kennedy, Marcus A. wrote: > A good backup system should provide more than the most recent copy. PLEASE do not do this. The swp files are already enough, if not too much. VIM is simple and works. Leave it that way. Let the user filing this crazy complaint use openoffice (or

Re: Real laws, yet funny (For Bram's, or anyone's, collection of signature quotes)

2020-09-21 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/21/20 2:46 PM, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote: > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:01, Tony Mechelynck > wrote: >> >> Since March 2007, it is a real standing law in the US state of >> Arkansas (whose name is to be pronounced as "Arkansaw"), that the >> "possessive" (i.e. genitive) form of the sta

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 12:06 PM, Matt Connell wrote: > Most > systems will have packages depending on perl, so the package > maintainers think "the average vim user will have perl installed > anyway, so why not enable those optional features?" the answer to that is mod_perl -- So many immigrant groups hav

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:23 AM, Matt Connell wrote: > If you are willing and able to recompile vim, it can be built without > depending on perl. I have one question, if you don't mind me indulging. Why would vim need perl built in as a dependency. Its not like, as far as I know, vim uses perl. -- So man

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:23 AM, Matt Connell wrote: >> Can I do this without recompiling vim? > No. > > If you are willing and able to recompile vim, it can be built without > depending on perl. Some systems (Gentoo Portage) make this easy to do, > but if you're using a binary-based distribution, you'll nee

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:18 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Do, 17 Sep 2020, Ruben Safir wrote: > >> I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or >> changing Perl >> >> vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open >&

Re: VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/17/20 11:00 AM, aroc...@vex.net wrote: > It sounds as though either something has deleted the object file, or a > path setting to find it. nothing like that. It is just needs the dependency removed. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reac

VIM and Perl

2020-09-17 Thread Ruben Safir
I need to fix the dependency of VIM on perl without upgrading or changing Perl vim: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can I do this without recompiling vim? Reuvain -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our tow

Re: editing remote files

2020-03-11 Thread Ruben Safir
On 3/11/20 7:34 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Vimmers, > I've recently passed from vim 7.4 to 8.2. > > I was used to administer my remote server through > >    gvim -p --nofork scp://user@server/file1 scp://user@server/file2 ... > > But now it get stuck without asking me the password. > > Di

Re: Best way to launch a URL from within VIM

2019-09-27 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/27/19 12:14 PM, Ni Va wrote: > Sorry just call it like this, it works well: > nnoremap wb :call helper#openurl() > > > Le vendredi 27 septembre 2019 18:00:11 UTC+2, Ni Va a écrit : >> >> I use this : >> my way is faster https://krollermuller.nl/vacatures https://krollermuller.

Re: Best way to launch a URL from within VIM

2019-09-27 Thread Ruben Safir
cut and past works. cut and past works...again cut and past works...again cut and past works...again cut and past works...again On 9/27/19 12:00 PM, Ni Va wrote: > I use this : > > " Url >> function! helper#job_out_cb(self, data) abort "{{{ >> let g:idx += 1 >> let g:data .= string(g:idx) >> le

Re: mutex ?

2019-08-20 Thread Ruben Safir
On 8/21/19 12:24 AM, Dominique Pellé wrote: > Kelly wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there any suggestion for a mutex lock/unlock in vim ? >> I want to protect some logging code in my plugin from being executed >> concurrently. >> >> thx always for everything vim, >> -m > > Vim is single threaded, so t

Re: follow link on internet with vim

2019-07-09 Thread Ruben Safir
On 7/9/19 11:09 AM, Enno wrote: > Le mardi 9 juillet 2019 10:32:52 UTC-3, Tony Mechelynck a écrit : >> On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:56 PM Mathieu Roux wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is it possible to follow a link with vim? for exemple, if my cursor is >>> on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim >>> i want

Re: follow link on internet with vim

2019-07-09 Thread Ruben Safir
On 7/9/19 8:56 AM, Mathieu Roux wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to follow a link with vim? for exemple, if my cursor is > on https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim > i want to use my browser to go to this website. > > By the same way, i can open a file with "gf" if my cursor is on the > file's name

Re: Inhibiting numbered list recognition with auto-format

2019-06-11 Thread Ruben Safir
On 6/10/19 10:23 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > >  formatlistpat=^\v\s*(((\a|\d{,4})[]:.)}/-])+|[-\*.·→+])\s+ can you expound on this? -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 h

Re: How to auto delete removed file's undo/backup ?

2018-12-01 Thread Ruben Safir
how did it help you. You asked about history tmp files and the response was completely irrelevant. Clue the rest of us in? On 12/1/18 8:41 AM, Linus Boyle wrote: > Thank you, Shlomi. This helps me a lot. > > Shlomi Fish 于2018年12月1日周六 下午7:24写道: > >> Hi Linus, >> >> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 18:56:47

Re: C-v to toggle between v-block/visual ?

2018-11-20 Thread Ruben Safir
On 11/20/18 1:50 PM, M Kelly wrote: > Yes, perhaps with visualmode() :-) which is poison -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are

Re: "

2018-09-13 Thread Ruben Safir
On 9/13/18 8:15 AM, Ni Va wrote: > silent! exe "%s/".k.'/\=get(s:decode, submatch(0), submatch(0))/g' can you explain this line? -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http:

Re: It is impossible to join unless you have a google account

2018-08-07 Thread Ruben Safir
On 08/07/2018 12:13 PM, David Woodfall wrote: > While I agree that it's important to be aware of tracking, privacy > and similar issues, /every/ mailing list hoster only has to check his > maillog to see the IPs and other info about the posters That is no excuse to expose that information to a th

Re: It is impossible to join unless you have a google account

2018-08-06 Thread Ruben Safir
On 08/06/2018 04:58 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > >> If you don't believe it, try it. It just enters a loop where it keeps >> sending you a confirmation link but never confirms > > Support page: https://support.google.com/groups/answer/1067205?hl=en > > Join a Google group without a Gmail a

Re: why is cut and paste broken on X11?

2018-08-06 Thread ruben . safir
> - When copying, cutting and pasting (sorry, in Vim language it is > yanking, deleting and putting, respectively) within a single instance > of Vim it is possible (and I recommend) to bypass the X11 selection & > clipboard completely, and use either the default register for > temporary use, No

Re: why is cut and paste broken on X11?

2018-08-06 Thread ruben . safir
On Monday, August 6, 2018 at 1:08:10 PM UTC-4, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > Well, I can't speak for you, but I've been using gvim (with GTK2 GUI) > for years on X11 and for me copy, cut and paste work with no problems. > The workings of the X11 clipboard may have to need some getting used > to for some

Re: why is cut and paste broken on X11?

2018-08-06 Thread Ruben Safir
On 08/06/2018 11:04 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > On Mo, 06 Aug 2018, ruben.sa...@my.liu.edu wrote: > >> Why is it that X11 cut and paste has been broken for a couple of years >> now and that it is not being fixed. It worked fine for 30 years. > > No, it is not. Perhaps you need to have a l

Re: It is impossible to join unless you have a google account

2018-08-06 Thread Ruben Safir
On 08/06/2018 11:02 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Well, I am using a different mail account than google and subscription > worked. well it doesn't work. It just sends confirmation emails over and over. I does work if you have a google account through the web browser. -- So many immigrant

Re: why is cut and paste broken on X11?

2018-08-06 Thread Ruben Safir
On 08/06/2018 11:04 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > No, it is not yes it is > I suppose you are looking for `:set mouse=` That only works sometimes and doesn't fix that it is broken, which it wasn't 5 years ago. > I am sorry, but ranting is neither helpful not appreciated. Agreed, so don't ran

It is impossible to join unless you have a google account

2018-08-06 Thread ruben . safir
If you don't believe it, try it. It just enters a loop where it keeps sending you a confirmation link but never confirms -- -- 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.

why is cut and paste broken on X11?

2018-08-06 Thread ruben . safir
Why is it that X11 cut and paste has been broken for a couple of years now and that it is not being fixed. It worked fine for 30 years. WHy can't I get rid of Visual mode which is a huge failure. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply belo