Re: Unable to log in to vim.org

2023-04-17 Thread cjsmall
I have just found out that vim.org is not accessible. Firefox reports: *"We can’t connect to the server at vim.org. Did you mean to go to www.vim.org?"* Indeed, www.vim.org does allow access to the main site. When I attempt to ping vim.org: # ping vim.org ping: vim.org: Name or service not k

Displaying the British pound key using the compose key

2023-03-18 Thread cjsmall
Vim 8.2 In vim I can enter the British Pound symbol with "Ctrl-K $ $" just fine. However, I've been using the Compose key on my Sun Type 6 keyboard to enter most of the Unicode characters, simply replacing Ctrl-K with Compose. So far this has worked with every digraph combination except the Briti

Re: Gvim and Alt-F10

2021-04-22 Thread cjsmall
" Stop Alt-F10 from pulling down the File menu nnoremap inoremap endif I hope that explanation makes sense. Sorry to bother everyone with my confusion as to what was actually going on. A big thanks to Tony for his very detailed reply. On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 7:18:

Re: Gvim and Alt-F10

2021-04-22 Thread cjsmall
be great if Sven or someone could goose the maintainer to update the package. I've tried! :-( On Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 5:56:48 PM UTC-7 antoine.m...@gmail.com wrote: > it applies tOn Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 12:31 AM cjsmall > wrote: > > > > I'm on Xubuntu 20.04

Gvim and Alt-F10

2021-04-22 Thread cjsmall
I'm on Xubuntu 20.04 and using vim 8.1 In gvim, the Alt-F10 key is co-opted to display the File pull-down menu. I have a series of remapped assignments for all of the function keys. These all work well for vim in a terminal window, but this single one fails due to this built-in menu assignmen

Re: Stop notification from :wn

2021-02-12 Thread cjsmall
f editor space. This is not worth it for the benefit received. So I guess I'll just stick with a macro that issues either the ":w^V^M:n^V^M" or ":silent wn" sequence. Thanks for the replies! On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 10:58:29 AM UTC-8 Stan Brown wrote: > >

Stop notification from :wn

2021-02-12 Thread cjsmall
When I use the :wn" command, before moving to the next file I see a notification like: "file1" 137L, 5359C [w] "file2" 137L, 5359C Press ENTER or type command to continue Obviously this requires a to advance to the next file. Is there a way to suppress this notice and simply move to the n

How to test if an escape sequence is currently mapped

2020-02-17 Thread cjsmall
Thanks to everyone who offered very helpful suggestion regarding my previous question on the best way to conditionally map function keys using *autocmd BufReadPre*, when editing particular files. I wanted to unmap the keys upon exiting the file and have done that also using *aucocmd BufLeave*.

Re: Conditional configuration based upon filenames

2020-01-27 Thread cjsmall
Gary: Thanks for all the useful tips. I'll look into each of them in turn. On Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 3:31:01 PM UTC-8, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On 2020-01-25, cjsmall wrote: > > I want to do some conditional setup and key assignments based upon the > > name of t

Conditional configuration based upon filenames

2020-01-25 Thread cjsmall
I want to do some conditional setup and key assignments based upon the name of the file currently being edited. Here is what I've got so far as the *.vimrc* file in the target directory: so /u/jeff/lib/vi/vimrc.html so /u/jeff/lib/vi/vimrc.tab4 " = :if

Re: Reformat single-line HTML

2018-08-31 Thread cjsmall
Following up on you own post, I did find a suggestion to use "tidy -i" as a filter. This seems to be reasonable. I would still love to hear any other better ideas you may have. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you ar

Reformat single-line HTML

2018-08-31 Thread cjsmall
I'm getting some raw HTML -- usually from the page source of website -- that is formatted as a single line of thousands of characters. Can vim automatically reformat this into readable and indented code? If not, is there a good filter program you can suggest to do the job. Thanks. -- -- Yo

Re: Vim Android App with encrptioin support

2018-01-23 Thread cjsmall
On Monday, January 22, 2018 at 2:08:42 PM UTC-8, Eli the Bearded wrote: > Jeffery Small wrote: > > I have an android phone. I want to be able to view some > > blowfish2-encrypted files that I have placed on the phone. Does anyone > > know of a vim app that supports decryption? I have the "Vim To

Vim Android App with encrptioin support

2018-01-21 Thread cjsmall
I have an android phone. I want to be able to view some blowfish2-encrypted files that I have placed on the phone. Does anyone know of a vim app that supports decryption? I have the "Vim Touch" app installed, but it complains that the content is "too big" when trying to access the encrypted f

Re: Controlling the display of a syntax highlighting group

2017-08-29 Thread cjsmall
One more addendum: In the external file, I changed the line: highlight NONASCII ctermbg=13 to: highlight NONASCII ctermbg=13 guibg=Magenta so that the command would work in gvim as well as vim. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply b

Re: Controlling the display of a syntax highlighting group

2017-08-29 Thread cjsmall
I wrote: > [P.S.:  I originally sent this to which is the address listed > on the official Vim mailing list page, but it never showed up.  Is that still > valid, or must vim_use@googlegroups.com now be used?] As you can see above, after a long delay (3 days), the original message (duplicte)to v

Re: Command substitution within vim

2014-07-06 Thread cjsmall
On Saturday, July 5, 2014 4:01:51 PM UTC-7, Ben Fritz wrote: > That would be because your :map! command applies also to command-line mode, > because you did not specify a specific mode for it to apply in (for example, > :imap or :inoremap). This causes a problem because your first mapping, for

Command substitution within vim

2014-07-05 Thread cjsmall
For years I have been using the following vim mapping: map \\a :. w>> `dictname` Here, backslash-a writes the current line (which is always a single word) out to the appropriate file which is substituted by the command "dictname". Apparently, vim is doing the command substitution internally in o

Re: Having trouble activating the matchit plugin

2013-02-23 Thread cjsmall
On Saturday, February 23, 2013 10:55:04 AM UTC-8, Gary Johnson wrote: > view -N -u NONE --cmd 'let &rtp = $VIMRUNTIME' --cmd 'filetype plugin on' > --cmd 'runtime macros/matchit.vim' index.html > > Try that and see how it works. If it doesn't work, there is Gary: I tried this and it works

Having trouble activating the matchit plugin

2013-02-22 Thread cjsmall
[I am subscribed to this group and get daily posts. I tried to email this post to v...@vim.org (as the community page states) and it bounced back without any specifically helpful info. What's wrong? Has the email address changed to vim_...@vim.org or could it be something else? Thanks.] I'm us

Recovery Question

2012-05-05 Thread cjsmall
I have a long standing question regarding vim's recovery mode. When you have a crash and then recover a file, why doesn't vim remove the .swp file after the recovery, as vi(1) does? You are left to remember to clean up manually after a recovery or you will get the same recovery message over and o