Re: I had to replace gvim with neovim

2024-02-28 Thread Steve Litt
Gary Johnson said on Wed, 28 Feb 2024 06:45:04 -0800 >On 2024-02-28, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> 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

Re: How to make gvim/vim-gtk3 behave exactly like vim

2024-01-26 Thread Steve Litt
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. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 -- --

Re: Any way to incorporate graphics into Gvim?

2024-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
'meine' via vim_use said on Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:21:13 +0100 >On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 11:31:13PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> 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

Re: Building a Reactive Library from Scratch in Vim 9 Script

2023-12-30 Thread Steve Litt
and the benefits in a way I could explain or use them. Thanks again for this ultra-cool post! SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-

Re: How to disable and replace Vim's standard formatting of Pascal

2023-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
Tim Chase said on Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:14:44 -0500 >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: >> >> ==

Re: How to disable and replace Vim's standard formatting of Pascal

2023-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
ient with Vim. Thanks for showing it to me. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are re

Re: How to disable and replace Vim's standard formatting of Pascal

2023-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
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. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Th

Re: How to disable and replace Vim's standard formatting of Pascal

2023-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
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). >> > >I sus

How to disable and replace Vim's standard formatting of Pascal

2023-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
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 Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm -- -- You receiv

Re: You Need VIM

2023-04-16 Thread Steve Litt
en-coding and coaches you on tags and legal CSS identifiers and values. The time I looked at a zen-coding addon for Vim, it was a total mess. What HTML aware zen-coding addons are all of you using these days? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troublesho

Re: Yanking doesn't yank

2023-01-12 Thread Steve Litt
eceiving emails from it, send an email to >vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the >web visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/CAEJNuHy8zJ8-kUiaYXKwW5%3D1Q06hzeor4Gu299VS-WW1nP26eQ%40mail.gmail.com. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book:

Re: word count

2022-12-28 Thread Steve Litt
n >where cursor is? > >Because i don't feel like calculating how much words there is between >cursor and word where i want to jump to. And it would be faster and >efficient, 'to just know' how much words to jump in current line to >get to some word 6w in display mode jumps you 6

Re: How to quickly move to a specific buffer?

2022-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
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

Re: How to quickly move to a specific buffer?

2022-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
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 Shift+Ctrl+n ? How would I change the to change it to Shift+Ctrl+n ? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autum

Re: How to quickly move to a specific buffer?

2022-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
do I have to type in? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. F

Re: How to quickly move to a specific buffer?

2022-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
en a tab I looked up :h tab and found stuff seemingly unrelated. How does one open a tab? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.

Re: How to limit amount of memory used by vim?

2022-07-06 Thread Steve Litt
so, go easy on the VM's you're running. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are reply

Re: Vim 9.0 is released!

2022-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
every day for the past 20 years. SteveT Steve Litt Summer 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replyin

Zen coding in Vim for html/css?

2022-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Is anybody using zen-coding? Which plugin? How did you install it? Can it be used if you turn off auto indent? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm -- -- You received this message from

How to turn off auto-indenting in Vim for HTML?

2022-06-14 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, How do I turn off auto-indent in Vim for my HTML files? I prefer to flush left everything and create blank lines at transitions. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm -- -- You received

Re: Large file - Opening n head lines

2022-03-17 Thread Steve Litt
bigfile.txt >> bigfile.new # NOTE: bigfile.new is now your edited file. If you do it often, you can put it in a shellscript, and can even rename the original to .bak. HTH SteveT Steve Litt March 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm --

Re: Vim9 script feature-complete

2021-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
Outliner project. With Vim9, has the need for "localleader" gone away? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use"

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
HTML, ePub or PDF. Once source, three (or more) reader formats. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-

Re: Vim turns 30 today!

2021-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
ro? (I think SLS came >on about a dozen 3.5" floppies . . ). I was late to the party with Red Hat 5.1, but better late than never :-) SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- -- You rece

Vim backup files

2021-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
, and I have a paper copy, so I should be OK. 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 a program that can do this for me, now that the dialog box doesn't happen anymore? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Sort lines, then tag, then unsort

2021-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
ginal order. Finally, use Vim to get rid of those line numbers. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do no

Re: Command Line Bookmark manager

2021-07-17 Thread Steve Litt
rameo said on Fri, 16 Jul 2021 02:37:44 -0700 (PDT) >Hi, > >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/ SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Tro

Re: [ANN] notmuch-vim 0.7 released

2021-07-11 Thread Steve Litt
h to notmuch-vim in order to format that HTML email as something readable, that shows links where they're supposed to be? (NOTE: I never SEND HTML email, so I'm only asking about receiving). Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Tec

Re: Help converting function to Vim9 script

2021-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
g: and l: and a: etc. That stuff used to kill my brain. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not t

Re: Insert non-rectangular selection

2021-05-28 Thread Steve Litt
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.

Re: vim-mnemonics for hjkl.

2021-03-02 Thread Steve Litt
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

Re: Trademark

2021-01-27 Thread Steve Litt
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. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troub

Re: Substitute pattern over multiple lines

2020-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
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

Re: Substitute pattern over multiple lines

2020-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
o he doesn't need to wrap them: The browser will wrap them for him. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text y

Re: Markdown with LSD-hallucinations... :)

2020-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 2 Dec 2020 16:33:13 -0800 (PST) Felipe Contreras wrote: > > This is how asciidoc markdown looks on my side with my colorscheme: > > https://snipboard.io/jDiaJK.jpg > > Cheers. > I've seen worse. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thrivin

Re: Mixing Vim9 and legacy script (was: Happy birthday!)

2020-11-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:40:23 +0100 Tony Mechelynck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 10:04 AM Steve Litt > wrote: [...] > > 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

Re: Mixing Vim9 and legacy script (was: Happy birthday!)

2020-11-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:44:26 +0100 Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > Yes, each file can be legacy script or Vim 9 script and one can source > the other. You cannot switch halfway the file, that would be too > confusing. > > You can use the new :def function

Re: Happy birthday!

2020-11-03 Thread Steve Litt
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

Re: Percentage of distros using Python enabled Vim?

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:21:34 + Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote: > Eventually you may want to talk about your software first. > Maybe it already exists .. > It definitely exists already, and right now that's all I can say about the situation :-) SteveT Steve Lit

Re: Percentage of distros using Python enabled Vim?

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:42:08 +0100 Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> wrote: > Hi Steve! > > On Di, 19 Jan 2016, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm thinking of making some Vim centered software. I could use VimL, > > but for me VimL

Percentage of distros using Python enabled Vim?

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Litt
percentage of today's distros do you think are compiled without Python capabilities? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-

Re: Extra sheet of paper.

2015-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
on Linux. Vim's print function has always sucked. I do this: enscript -P myprinter -fTimes-Roman12 mydoc.txt SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post

Re: Extra sheet of paper.

2015-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
I'm so sorry for the way I phrased this. I thought I was talking to John on a different mailing list. So let me rephrase: I prefer using Vim for its editing speed and prowess, and leaving the printing to enscript. SteveT On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:22:23 -0500 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com

Re: why function! instead of just function

2015-01-20 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- 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: why function! instead of just function

2015-01-20 Thread Steve Litt
'Hello' 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. -tim Tim, Thanks for the complete explanation. I always wondered that myself. SteveT Steve

Re: VimL: How to make a variable?

2014-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
instead of MyVariableText. How do I get it to use the *value* of the variable instead of the *name* of the variable? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received this message from the vim_use

Re: VimL: How to make a variable?

2014-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
resource. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- 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

VimL: How to make a variable?

2014-10-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'd like to make a variable, set once and read everywhere (I guess that makes it a global variable), in VimL. What's the syntax to set and read that variable? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Poll: What's good about plugin managers?

2014-03-25 Thread Steve Litt
their next installer on Pathogen, so as a VimOutliner user, I'd love to see greater Vim support for Pathogen. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post

Re: ESC key stopped working -- any alternate for menuless vim to get to normal mode?

2013-10-08 Thread Steve Litt
daily typer. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- 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

Re: Yank all lines in a file

2013-08-16 Thread Steve Litt
something better. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- 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

Re: YAML that folds right?

2013-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
. The YAML will also be much more readable than my kludgy EMDL. And thanks to Vim's folding, modifications to huge (my main EMDL file is over 2000 lines and at least 7 levels deep) YAML files will be easy drilldowns. Thanks again. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

YAML that folds right?

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Is there something I can use to make Vim fold correctly on YAML files? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your

Re: Macvim seems not to be reading my .vimrc

2013-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:17 -0400 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

Re: breaking with history ?

2013-06-08 Thread Steve Litt
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 of life, I'd already be using Emacs. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: I'm unable to override indentexpr

2013-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:26:59 +0200 Bram Moolenaar b...@moolenaar.net wrote: Steve Litt wrote: 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

Re: How to fix h1 id strings?

2013-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 07:36:57 -0800 Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: 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

Re: How to fix h1 id strings?

2013-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
for that info Bee. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- 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

Re: How to fix h1 id strings?

2013-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
because I can start pounding out content this afternoon, especially with my new modifications. I'm keeping Zencoding in mind as something I want to learn sooner or later because I have a feeling it will give me greater productivity. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http

I'm unable to override indentexpr

2013-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
I narrow this down just one more time? By the way, thank you to all the people on the #vim IRC channel who have already helped me with this problem so I could get as far as I have. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human

Re: I'm unable to override indentexpr

2013-06-04 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:11:19 -0700 Gary Johnson garyj...@spocom.com wrote: On 2013-06-04, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, 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

How to fix h1 id strings?

2013-06-03 Thread Steve Litt
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. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received

Re: How to fix h1 id strings?

2013-06-03 Thread Steve Litt
just poorly done IMHO. I think you're right, I'll do that, and I'll submit my blank to underscore thing so maybe they can just put that in. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received

Re: How to fix h1 id strings?

2013-06-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 07:44:00 -0400 David Fishburn dfishburn@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote: Hi all, Using snipMate, h1 items have id strings that are the same as their text, meaning the id string has spaces. h1

How are you editing HTML?

2013-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
not in the cards) do you have for me? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- 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

Re: How are you editing HTML?

2013-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:12:26 -0500 Tim Chasev...@tim.thechases.com wrote: On 2013-06-02 19:48, Steve Litt wrote: 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

Re: How are you editing HTML?

2013-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
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. Thank you VERY much! SteveT Steve Litt

HTML blank insertion program

2013-06-02 Thread Steve Litt
} printblank == 1{suppressnextblank--} printblank == 1 suppressnextblank != 1 {print } $0 !~ /^\s*$/ {print $0} Thanks for everyone's help, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You

Re: [CSC507-Homework] receipt acknowledged! (was: tab order)

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Litt
filtered him until the problem gets settled. When whatever it was is fixed, could you please post that fact to the list so I can un-filter Charles? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- -- You received

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
Zhang wodes...@gmail.com wrote: I map Caps_Lock as Esc 2013/2/19 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:23:00 +1100 John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:50:38 -0600 Benjamin Klein b...@silver-chalice.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2013, at 7:52 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Thank you! You're welcome -- glad to be of help. :) I was going to say that I borrowed that one from Steve Losh's excellent

Re: cannot unsubscribe

2013-02-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:43:10 + Franco franc...@gmx.com wrote: It seems I cannot unsubscribe from this mailing list. I sent a mail both to vim-unsubscr...@vim.org and to the google address one. I received the confirmation but replying lead to nothing (vim.org address) and to a

mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I injured my left middle finger and can no longer extend it. Therefore, hitting the Esc key to get out of insert mode stops my work in its tracks. Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? Thanks SteveT --

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:58:45 -0600 Benjamin Klein b...@silver-chalice.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Question for all of you: What's your favorite substitute for Esc, whether a keystroke, key combination, or key sequence? I use jk

Re: mapping a substitute for the Esc key?

2013-02-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:23:00 +1100 John Beckett johnb.beck...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: OT: The so called steep learning curve of vim...

2012-10-01 Thread Steve Litt
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. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: why is it so difficult to start using vim (may be just for me).

2012-09-26 Thread Steve Litt
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. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http

Re: ignore new line in search

2012-01-15 Thread Steve Litt
documents, and the functionality you describe would be a timesaver, given that in languages like LyX native format and HTML, you don't know where the newline will be. SteveT * My new 99 cent Kindle book : http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006QTBLA2 * * Steve Litt : http

Re: karma wrecking problem

2011-12-14 Thread Steve Litt
noticed that script 3025 had 231 ratings of -1 in 1h21m starting 2011-12-12 02:43, each from a different IP. Sounds like the China connection to me. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com

Re: karma wrecking problem

2011-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
on ebay sellers'reputations, and now I find out for a few hundred dollars they can get thousands of positive reviews. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- You received

Re: bash script using vim commands?

2011-05-21 Thread Steve Litt
, if you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail :) Another way of saying that is if you want to learn the use of fifty similar tools, you won't need a hammer as much. But if you're really good at a hammer, you can use a much smaller toolbox. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http

Re: Where is localleader defined?

2011-04-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 14:16:55 ZyX wrote: Reply to message «Where is localleader defined?», sent 21:58:45 27 April 2011, Wednesday by Steve Litt: Where is localleader defined? It is surprising, but if you open `:h localleader' you will get desired answer. How would I define

Re: Where is localleader defined?

2011-04-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 27 April 2011 15:14:08 ZyX wrote: Reply to message «Re: Where is localleader defined?», sent 22:54:22 27 April 2011, Wednesday by Steve Litt: I'm not sure if I understand what you're writing, but it sounds like what you're doing is, instead of creating voleader to be used

Re: Where is localleader defined?

2011-04-27 Thread Steve Litt
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 keystroke. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Vim Outliner mail list

2011-04-18 Thread Steve Litt
it? --- --- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net Hi Eric, I'll make the proper people aware of this. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top

Re: Execute string under cursor

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Litt
. It's called Executable Lines and you can see it in the VimOutliner code. SteeT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- You received this message from the vim_use maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you