Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
> ... nothing but quoted text where I'd have
> to scroll down 3 screens' worth just to see the entire replied-to
> message with nothing but an added "Thanks, that worked!" at the very
> end, etc., I just plain skip to the next email w/o even looking further.
>
You're talk
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Is it possible to use something in the manner of
>
> ls -l | vim -
Start vim. Insert "ls -l", escape, then !!sh
This is called a filter. See `:help filter`.
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Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
> I prefer proper quoting were possible, with the reply interleaved with
> the quoted text.
But interleaving won't be necessary if they kept their post to a single
point each.
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Ricky wrote:
> Hi, All
>
> One line contains a number of same words:
> ---
> I've never saw a saw saw a saw
> She never saw a saw saw a saw
> ...
> He never saw a saw saw a saw
> ---
>
> I just want to replace the 2nd or 3rd "saw", Do you have any idea?
What makes it unique? What makes it dif
NickC wrote:
> For me, vim has taken over, it's pervasive because it's so useful. So
> much so that I get frustrated when I press, say, dd in an app and find it
> didn't delete the line. Stupid brain-dead app, I think to myself, when
> it's my fault of course.
I know the feeling. When I used
Dennis German wrote:
> Happy New Year to all. :w
>
> An earlier post mentioned having files ending up with
> :q in them.
>
> When I'm done editing, I always use :x and
> only use :q when I didn't make any changes
> ( of course :q! when I didn't mean to make any changes).
> Is this just a matter
Chris Jones wrote:
> I try to stick to just one vim instance and basically never quit..
>
> What I do is that I periodically take a look at my buffer list and issue
> a bunch of :bw commands for those buffers I know I won't need in the
> foreseeable future.
Gvim allows the window to be split ver
On 11-07-29 07:37 PM, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
Vim receives characters from the terminal, rather than actual key presses like the
GUI version does. And I don't believe that is actually a valid
character. So that would probably explain why it works in GVim but not in any
terminal.
Sometimes vi
aksr wrote:
how to display characters "čćšđž" in vim and is that possible?
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when i try to type this chars, i get "▐ " (something like this..)
what i should do?
thank you
I'm not sure what you mean by display, but to insert them into the text
use CTRL-K.
See `:help CTRL-K
On 10-05-18 11:58 AM, robert song wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I executed :!history in vim to execute the external history command,
but find that no result is outputted.
Does anybody know the reason ?
Best Regards,
robert
Yes, :! will start a new shell to run the command in. Since it's new,
it
On 10-05-18 02:33 PM, AK wrote:
On 05/18/2010 02:23 PM, Jeremiah Martell wrote:
I cant figure out how to search for "newline followed by non-newline" using
vim.
So if I have a file like this:
a b c
d e f
g
h i j
k l
m n o
p q
I want to find the newlines after c, f, j, and o, but not after g
On 10-06-01 07:55 AM, Andre Majorel wrote:
Execute the current line (minus the leading "#") as a shell
command and insert its output at +1, keeping the current line in
place.
Yp:.!sed 's/^\#//' | sh
Is there a simpler way to do that ? Like a built-in command ?
Yes, they're called filters,
On 10-12-15 12:44 PM, rameo wrote:
Is there a way to avoid this startup time and take the cygwin window
active?
Have you tried running ViM from a cygwin window? It should use the same
window for the filters.
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I have created a syntax file for GViM but the yasSpecial are not
highlighted when embedded. I have attached the syntax file and a test
file. How do I make the specials highlight when they are embedded?
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Chris Jones wrote:
> Has anybody heard of a dead key scheme where the user hits the
> printable key first and then adds the diacritic? Same as what I do
> when using the X server's Compose key.. but without the need of a
> Compose key.
ViM has its own compose k
I'm not sure where you see this but usually it means you have to press
"f" after . That is, to invoke the command, you have to press the
sequence followed by an "f".
This allows a choice of commands from the key. For example, there
may be a, b, ... commands which can be invoke by pressing th
On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 08:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
Amit Christian wrote:
> I find it still difficult to go to next lines or browsing up or down
> through the text. Can any one please help me with efficient use of
> working with text without a usual j,k,h,l use? Are there resources or
> help on internet? Wh
On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:29:29 -0700 (PDT)
Amit Christian wrote:
> I definitely am not planning to disable those keys forever. But just
> to learn, develop habit (and possibly muscle memory!) to use other
> quicker motion keys.
>
> Honestly, from my experience in last few days, I already have bec
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 23:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
i...@odyschrift.nl wrote:
> I am a novice in gVim. I often need the help function.
> :h. I understand I can map this combination of 4
> keystrokes to a single key. Is ; a good choice?
No, ";" is used to repeat "f", "F", "t", or "T" search. See :help ;
A b
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 12:02:10 -0400
aroc...@vex.net wrote:
>
> > I wonder how string the builtin encryption of vim really is.
> >
>
> Encryption really isn't the business of a text editor. Decrypt the
> cipher-text, feed it to the editor, encrypt when saving, and be sure
> to delete any temporary
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:35:29 -0400
ping song wrote:
> whenever I change a tcl file and :write
> the vim got stuck...for ever.
> no cpu spike, gnu screen/tmux works fine where vim is running inside.
> no file permission issue - if I set ft=txt and write, there won't be
> any problem...
>
> so I t
On Sat, 1 Oct 2016 17:56:04 +0200
Stefan Klein wrote:
> for my case I consider my computer(s) to be safe since there are no
> other users on those machines, so I don't care to much about temporary
> files.
Provided you're running a firewall.
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Tim Chase wrote:
> so I suspect that you have something interfering with that reporting.
>
> -tim
I'm running version 7.4 and I just tested it with 417 lines and it
reported 417 lines yanked.
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> would use \s* to find "ZERO or more whitespace chars".
A better choice might be to use \W* instead. This will make non-word
characters.
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>
> which feels intuitive to me. YMMV.
I remap the Esc.
:nnoremap :nohlsearch
In normal mode, Esc does nothing but ring the bell, so this feels
intuitive to me. :)
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Christian Brabandt wrote:
> On So, 05 Feb 2017, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>
> > I remap the Esc.
> >
> > :nnoremap :nohlsearch
> >
> > In normal mode, Esc does nothing but ring the bell, so this feels
> > intuitive t
ot;_" for italic, and
"-" for strikeout. \< and \> only works for italic.
Does anyone know a more elegant way?
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"Anchors are a different breed. They do not match any character at all.
Instead, they match a position before, after, or between characters."
http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html
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> > specific layout. I want __certain__ windows not to change e.g. when
> > another buffer/window is closed, resized, split etc.
>
> Try 'winfixheight' and 'winfixwidth'.
>
And 'winpos' for position.
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> that the feature would bring to the table.
I use / (search) to move around a lot. It is the fastest way I found (so
far). ☺
The second fastest is to use an after/ftplugin to preset marks.
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aroc...@vex.net wrote:
> > Seems like vim is requiring some specific versions/features
> > of perl?
>
> Which features? What is happening?
>
Perl's features: http://perldoc.perl.org/feature.html
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Igor Forca wrote:
> @Christian, interesting technique and working fine. Just wondering
> what is the purpose of \%, it is working with or without this string.
:help \%(
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>
Do you mean key mappings$ Type the following and press ENTER:
:help map
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On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 16:12 +0200, Harald Vajkonny wrote:
> Hello,
>
> thanks for your answer to my previous question. Now I'm trying to do
> something more complicated, i.e. communicating between the vim-user and
> my perl-script. Is there any possibility to interact with the vim user
> from a s
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 08:10 +0200, Harald Vajkonny wrote:
> Wonderful, thank you :)
>
> I'm running it in a yakuake term on linux (should be close to an
> xterm).
> It works fine with the following piece of code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> open(OUT, ">>testappend");
> @text=<>;
> print OUT ("@text\n"
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 16:02 +0200, Harald Vajkonny wrote:
>
> Mr. Shawn H. Corey schrieb:
> >> print OUT ("@text\n");
> >> print ("@text");
> >>
> >
> > # I'm pretty sure the above two lines should be:
> > print
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 22:56 +0100, Erik Hahn wrote:
>
> The common Page up/down keys do the same, I find them more convient.
>
I have the following in my .vimrc
map
map
They are Control Up and Down Arrows and scroll the buffer up and down
one line regardless of where cursor currently is
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 02:13 -0800, Srikanth wrote:
> Lot of times I search for strings using the * command and I would
> replace the searched string with some other string but how to avoid
> typing the last searched string again in the ":%s/
> /" command?
The last search pattern is stored in the
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 07:43 -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> To fold based on that definition, you can use
>
>:set foldmethod=expr
>:set foldexpr=strlen(matchstr(getline(v:lnum),'^-*'))
>
Shouldn't the pattern be: '^--*'
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On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:34 -0600, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> At some point I knew a command that you could use to paste visually
> selected text (or something along those lines) into the ex command
> box. I couldn't find it in the docs but I presume I didn't know where
> to look. Any
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 12:50 -0600, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I have perl.vim installed.
> >
> > File::Path
> >
> > Suppose I have the above text in a .pl file and the cursor is on
> > 'Path'. When I press *, it will search for \. I want vim
> > to search for \. Can somebody let me know how to do it?
On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 12:53 -0800, Peng Yu wrote:
> The vim in my system is of version 7.0. I think that it is actually
> because of perl-support that I just installed recently instead of
> perl.vim as I mentioned in the original post.
>
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=556
>
>
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 00:08 +0100, Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> Actually, 'iskeyword' should be set by an ftplugin, not a syntax
> script
> (and by :setlocal, not :set, to avoid clobbering the settings for
> other
> files and the defaults for future new files of a different filetype).
> The current
On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 19:49 -0800, bgold12 wrote:
> Hey, I've just discovered that vim doesn't retain the case of the
> filename you provide as the argument to the :write command if there's
> a filename by the same name but different case in the folder you're
> saving to, or if you're writing a fi
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 12:59 -0800, Dan Heller wrote:
> To be clear, vim is doing the showmatch behavior -- it puts the cursor
> on
> BOTH the open and close bracket/brace/paren -- and I want to turn this
> off.
> I can't. My "showmatch" setting is off, but the behavior doesn't turn
> off.
> What's
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:42 -0800, Dan Heller wrote:
> I just want to turn it off -- that's entirely different.
>
> Now, it just so happens that my terminal emulation doesn't "jump" the
> cursor, or anything. It merely places TWO blocks at the start and end
> of the
> matching brackets. See the a
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:56 -0800, Dan Heller wrote:
> FINALLY! Man, that was aggravating.
> How can I prevent the loading of the plugin in the first place?
>
In vim, type
:help matchparen
and search for "avoid loading this plugin"
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Hi,
I have the following map:
:map :set textwidth=60gqap:set textwidth=0
Is the a more elegant way to do this?
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On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 09:01 -0800, rob wrote:
> Is there a way, like a plugin or a perl/python tool, to draw ascii
> tables like below without having to painfully do it by hand? I'd like
> to be able to a) easily navigate between cells b) bottom> justify text in cell c) edit cells and have the
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 00:45 +1100, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> Though at least for those of us who celebrate Christmas *Day* on
> December 25 (and perhaps for the January 7 crowd too), Christmas
> itself
> is a 12-day season (also called Christmastide) so it's not late at all
> in my books (and for me it
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 07:53 -0800, WL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using gvim launched from an linux xterm.
>
> I want to work with all the files in the current directory so I do :r!
> ls
> the result is full of strange characters that get in the way of
> editing the file.
> I get something like (ignore
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 15:39 -0800, Gary Johnson wrote:
> To verify that you are using an alias, you can execute (at a shell
> prompt):
>
> alias ls
>
> I think you'll see something like this:
>
> ls='ls --color=always'
>
> If you can find where that alias is defined--probably in your
>
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 02:00 +0100, Jesus Sanchez wrote:
> o Colors are better identified with black backgrounds when the
> differences are few.
>
Colours are better identified if they are surround by other colours.
Human have colour invariance. This means colours are adjusted so an
item that
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 03:51 +0100, Jesus Sanchez wrote:
> When I said colors are better identified with black backgrounds I was
> trying to say that if you put a black square, inside that scuare you
> put
> two lines of 1 pixel width. One line is a pure red and other line is a
> little modificatio
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 16:23 +0100, Jesus Sanchez wrote:
> Very nice post, and very very complete. I agree (and think everyone
> also
> agree) the fact that the screens today still use the "grey on black"
> theme for the terminals (tty ones and VGA modes) cause the history
> repercusion about this.
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