Gary Johnson said on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:45:04 -0800
>On 2024-02-28, Steve Litt wrote:
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>>
>> The gvim program became too much of a hassle because it printed all
>> sorts of GTk errors and warnings to the terminal, obliterating
>> valuable inf
do what I think it would do,
requiring middle mouse rather than Ctrl+v or Edit>Paste to paste.
Shift+',Shift++,yy is more what you want, but even then Ctrl+V won't
paste.
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>On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 11:31:13PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
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>>
>> I'm pretty sure I already know the answer, but is there a way to
>> incorporate a .png or .svg into Gvim, right by the characters i
and the benefits in a way I
could explain or use them.
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>On 2023-06-14 16:44, Steve Litt wrote:
>> >??? $VIMRUNTIME/ and its subdirectories contain scripts coming from
>> >the
>[snip
>> Oh oh. See following command line session:
>>
>> ==
ient with Vim.
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Bram Moolenaar said on Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:24:47 +0100
>Suggestion: Use "setlocal" instead of "set" to avoid affecting other
>files. You only want to apply these options locally.
Done! Thanks Bram.
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Tim Chase said on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:37:10 -0500
>On 2023-06-13 21:18, Steve Litt wrote:
>> Using grep, I found there are no files whose names contain the string
>> "pascal" in any case in the ~/.vim directory (I'm using Void Linux).
>>
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>I sus
Void Linux).
All I really need is to disable Vim's "helpful" indentation, and then:
Set ai
Set expandtab
Set tabstop 3
Set shiftwidth 3
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>Because i don't feel like calculating how much words there is between
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6w in display mode jumps you 6
Steve Litt said on Tue, 13 Dec 2022 22:29:15 -0500
>2) F5 is a very inconvenient hotkey. Is there a way I could use
> Shift+Ctrl+n ? How would I change the to change it to
> Shift+Ctrl+n ?
I figured it out. Shift+Ctrl+n is . Two consecutive pushes of
Alt+n is . Both of those a
time consuming if the number of buffers exceeds the
height of the Vim window. However, this will usually not be the case.
2) F5 is a very inconvenient hotkey. Is there a way I could use
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If you do it often, you can put it in a shellscript, and can even
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After a crash, I'd like a way to know whether a swap file exists, and
whether it indicates any differences from what's in my buffer. Is there
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Vim to get rid of those line numbers.
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>
>Is there a possibility in Vim or a script that allows us to Bookmark
>or Pin Command Line commands?
You might like UMENU2: http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/
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g: and l: and a: etc. That stuff used to kill my brain.
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stringc = stringa + stringb
write stringc to filec
You'd also need to open and close the files, and you'd need an error
condition for the situation where the two files have a different number
of lines. But a different number of lines would be a horror movie for
the Vim solution too.
h one hand. Back then there was no mouse, so they
chose the right hand, dominant on the majority of people, as that hand.
I'd guess if mice had existed universally when vi was created, the
cursor keys would have been done by the left hand so the user could
keep his or her right hand on the mouse.
I thi
use of Vim, perhaps it would have. But not as
it stands.
You can oppose it: That's your privilege. But I don't think you'll
prevail.
I'm glad that when I created VimOutliner back in 2001, nobody opposed
that naming.
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e-grafting, you drop the variable back to its original value.
It would also be very easy in Python, Python's advantage is that it can
easily store lines and "look back" before printing them. AWK can do
that, but it's more difficult.
I know this is offtopic on this list, but I think any Vi
o he doesn't need to wrap them: The browser
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> This is how asciidoc markdown looks on my side with my colorscheme:
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I've seen worse.
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> > Is there any documentation on the new Vim9 script yet, and if so,
> > where is it. Also, congrats on and thank you for 29 years of a
> > spectacula
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> the other. You cannot switch halfway the file, that would be too
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>
> You can use the new :def function
uire VimOutliner users to need to
install Python extensions, so I used VimScript.
> In case you don't like Vim 9 script, you can keep using the legacy
> one, it won't go away and remain backwards compatible.
Can I use some of one and some of the other, so I can slowly switch
th
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> Maybe it already exists ..
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It definitely exists already, and right now that's all I can say about
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> On Di, 19 Jan 2016, Steve Litt wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm thinking of making some Vim centered software. I could use VimL,
> > but for me VimL
percentage of today's distros do you think are compiled without
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So let me rephrase:
I prefer using Vim for its editing speed and prowess, and leaving the
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endfunction
to overwrite it. Because of the behavior, I just use the ! *every*
time that I define a function. That way, I don't have to think about
whether it already exists or not.
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their next installer on Pathogen, so
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. The YAML will also be much more readable than my kludgy EMDL.
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is over 2000 lines and at least 7 levels deep) YAML files will be easy
drilldowns.
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Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote:
On Jun 17, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Bee fo...@calcentral.com wrote:
Using the font menu item does not change your .vimrc, you need to
edit.
I've been making my changes in the .vimrc.
I have this in .gvimrc, it will
things in.
One word about the feature concerning threads and Netbeans
imitation: Geez, Vim's an editor, not a way of life. If I wanted a way
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I'm using Vim 7.3 in Xubuntu 12.10. When editing my html files, this
happens when I set indentexpr?:
indentexpr=HtmlIndentGet(v:lnum)
That's no good because HtmlIndentGet(v:lnum) does
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I just won't let any two h?
texts be the same, and actually, why would that happen in normal
authoring?
Really? Happens to me all the time
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Zencoding in mind as something I want to learn sooner or later because
I have a feeling it will give me greater productivity.
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I'm using Vim 7.3 in Xubuntu 12.10. When editing my html files, this
happens when I set indentexpr?:
indentexpr=HtmlIndentGet(v:lnum)
That's no good because
realtime, and I don't know
how to do that.
If anyone can point me to some URLs for doing this stuff, or specific
Vim help pages, I'd be eternally grateful.
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I think you're right, I'll do that, and I'll submit my blank to
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Using snipMate, h1 items have id strings that are the same as
their text, meaning the id string has spaces.
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not in the cards) do you
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For one thing, as I type my HTML, it goes into the file as a
jumble, with inconsistent indentation and no blank line before
h1, h2 etc headers. Tables aren't sectioned off
a quickie AWK script to add a few
strategic blank lines at it will be quite suitable.
The headline screaming across page 1 is that tidy acts as a lint
utility so I can write decent HTML, even though I'm a very careless
person. This is priceless.
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printblank == 1{suppressnextblank--}
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Esc, whether
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You're welcome -- glad to be of help. :) I was going to say that I
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I use jk
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Steve Litt wrote:
Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for
Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence?
Some ideas are at:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key
I
Vim -- no blocking, no
mouse, no menu, no cursor or pageup keys, no helpful tools to do
something you have no idea how to do. My memories of learning vi might
play a role in my opinion that Vim's learning curve is extremely steep.
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If you learn those, as muscle memory with your fingers, Vim will be a
little more powerful than Notepad, but faster. From there, learn one
more command every day, and pretty soon you'll be a ninja.
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documents, and the functionality you describe would be
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Where is localleader defined?
It is surprising, but if you open `:h localleader' you will get desired
answer.
How would I define
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you're doing is, instead of creating voleader to be used
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 15:41:05 Steve Litt wrote:
With that in mind, I'm going to plan B, in which we do the following:
map buffer special .. F12
This has been tested and works.
Turns out we might map to Plug instead of F12 or some other real
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