Re: Unable to compile Vim with Python 3, Perl, and OLE support for Windows XP with MinGW

2013-03-01 Thread cyboman
On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:42:30 PM UTC-5, cyboman wrote: > On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:40:53 PM UTC-5, cyboman wrote: > > I tried to post similar question vim_dev group, but I think I posted in the > > wrong group. I apologize in advance if you have seen this question before. &

Re: Unable to compile Vim with Python 3, Perl, and OLE support for Windows XP with MinGW

2013-03-01 Thread cyboman
On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:40:53 PM UTC-5, cyboman wrote: > I tried to post similar question vim_dev group, but I think I posted in the > wrong group. I apologize in advance if you have seen this question before. > I'm going to try to post it here. > > Issue > I need to

Re: change the filetype

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 5:54:34 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-11-25, cyboman wrote: > > > I have a certain set of settings for cpp files. All those settings > > > are located in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp.vim > > > > > > I would like to app

different colorschemes for different filetypes in the split window

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
Does anybody know if there is a way to set different colorschemes for different filetypes in the split window? Any help is appreciated. -- 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

change the filetype

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
I have a certain set of settings for cpp files. All those settings are located in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/cpp.vim I would like to apply those settings to c files as well. I tried to put the following code into ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/c.vim set filetype=cpp but I got the error saying that the nesti

Re: set runtimepath

2012-11-25 Thread cyboman
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 4:22:52 PM UTC-5, coot_. wrote: > On 15:31 Sun 25 Nov , rail shafigulin wrote: > > > I was trying to understand how runtimepath option works and was > > > experimenting with it. I bumped onto a small problem. > > > > > > I set up my runtimepath and copy mycolor

unmap

2012-11-22 Thread cyboman
I'm need to unmap a few of my mappings, but for some reason the unmap command doesn't work. To see what mappings I have I enter the following command :map The output I get looks like this: n -x*@dd n Q *@x Which led me to believe that -x and Q are mapped in the normal mode. However w

map the _ key to move the line up

2012-11-17 Thread cyboman
I have a - key mapped to move the line down. Here it is map - ddp I want to have a command opposite to it, _ to move the line up. I tried map _ ddkP but it doesn't work. If I'm on the last line of text it will move the text two lines up and if I'm on the first line it simply deletes the lines, w

shiftround option

2012-11-17 Thread cyboman
I'm reading an online book, Learning Vim the hardway, and it talks about the shiftround option. I tried it but it didn't affect anything. The effect was the same as before. I tried reading the help but it wasn't very helpful :) Has anybody used this option before? What is the advantage of it? Wh

:hardcopy

2011-09-13 Thread cyboman
i need to print some stuff from vim and i always used the hardcopy command for this. it always worked for me, but for some reason when i do it now instead of keywords (typedef, union, uint8 etc) i see big black rectangle covering them. does anybody know what happened and how to fix it? any help is

reload syntax file without restarting vim

2011-09-09 Thread cyboman
sometimes i need to make modifications to the syntax file but in order for changes to take effect i need to restart vim. is it possible for changes to take effect without a restart? does anybody know how to do it? any help is appreciated -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.

Re: unable to change default font

2011-08-19 Thread cyboman
On Aug 18, 10:46 am, Ricardo Silva wrote: > Hi, > > Try using 'set guifont=Consolas:h11' instead and also move the statement to > the end of _vimrc file. > > Ricardo Silva > > > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, cyboman wrote: &

Re: unable to change default font

2011-08-19 Thread cyboman
On Aug 18, 10:46 am, Ricardo Silva wrote: > Hi, > > Try using 'set guifont=Consolas:h11' instead and also move the statement to > the end of _vimrc file. > > Ricardo Silva i tried using this approach but it didn't work. > > > > > > > &g

Re: unable to change default font

2011-08-19 Thread cyboman
On Aug 18, 4:27 pm, Ben Fritz wrote: > On Aug 18, 8:57 am, cyboman wrote: > > > i decided to change default font and included the following command > > into my _vimrc file > > > set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI > > > but the strange thing is that Vim doesn&#x

Re: unable to change default font

2011-08-19 Thread cyboman
On Aug 18, 12:09 pm, Erik Falor wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 06:57:35AM -0700, cyboman wrote: > > i decided to change default font and included the following command > > into my _vimrc file > > > set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI > > > but the strange thing is

unable to change default font

2011-08-18 Thread cyboman
i decided to change default font and included the following command into my _vimrc file set guifont=Consolas:h11:cANSI but the strange thing is that Vim doesn't seem to care. i closed it and then reopened but for some reason the font is not set to what i told it to be. i even rebooted my machine

Re: vim swap files

2011-08-12 Thread cyboman
On Aug 11, 5:49 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2011-08-11, cyboman wrote: > > i set my backup and swap directories to > > > ~\vimfiles\data\swap > > ~\vimfiles\data\backup > > > however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions > > of the

vim swap files

2011-08-11 Thread cyboman
i set my backup and swap directories to ~\vimfiles\data\swap ~\vimfiles\data\backup however at my work i very often have to edit two different revisions of the same project, meaning that quite often i have vim open two files in different directories with the same name. because of the my setting f

highlighting blocks without highlighting what's inside

2011-07-08 Thread cyboman
my company is using a proprietary language. to mark scope in the code they use BEGIN and END keywords. END keyword is also used along with WHILE and FOR. i would like to be able to highlight BEGIN and END with one color and WHILE/FOR END with another. i looked through vim documentation but nothing

Re: setline vs call setline

2011-07-02 Thread cyboman
On Jul 1, 1:38 pm, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > Vim scripts are composed of ex commands. Functions are expressions, not > ex commands, so they can't be used "bare" in a script; that is, they > must be "wrapped" in a proper command. > > Not a valid Vimscript statement: > >     foo() > > Valid: > >    

setline vs call setline

2011-07-01 Thread cyboman
i'm writing a small script which uses setline. i'm somewhat new to vim scripting. whenever setline was called i would get an error saying that this is not an editor command. after looking up in the documentation for setline, i changed it to call setline and everything started working. but i'm confu

Re: how to get the last line number

2011-07-01 Thread cyboman
On Jul 1, 11:53 am, Taylor Hedberg wrote: > line('$') should do it. > > :help line() thanks, it worked. -- 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

how to get the last line number

2011-07-01 Thread cyboman
i'm writing a small script and it requires the knowledge of the last line number. is there a command in vim i could use to get it? any help is appreciated -- 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 infor

Re: syntax highlight unusual strings

2011-06-29 Thread cyboman
On Jun 29, 9:12 am, ZyX wrote: > Reply to message «Re: syntax highlight unusual strings», > sent 15:37:51 29 June 2011, Wednesday > by cyboman: > > > what do z and e in \ > :h /\ze > > Original message: > > > > > > > > > On Jun 28, 5:07

Re: syntax highlight unusual strings

2011-06-29 Thread cyboman
On Jun 28, 5:07 pm, Charles Campbell wrote: > cyboman wrote: > > my company is using a propitiatory language. there are 4 kind of > > different kind of strings that can be defined. > > > i"mystring" > > x"mystring" > > b"mystring

syntax highlight unusual strings

2011-06-28 Thread cyboman
my company is using a propitiatory language. there are 4 kind of different kind of strings that can be defined. i"mystring" x"mystring" b"mystring" "mystring" i'm writing a syntax file and want to be able to highlight strings in a regular manner except when they start with a letter, i.e. i want e

what algorithm does :cnext use to jump to a correct location

2011-06-27 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to write a small script which will jump between info/ warning/error messages, i.e. instead of jumping to the next message, which is what :cnext does, it will jump to the next error message. the problem is that i don't know how does :cnext do it. i have the information from the getqflist(

indentation based on a file type

2011-06-24 Thread cyboman
i found solutions online on how to do indentation based on a filetype however none of them worked except the last one. i would really appreciate if someone could explain to me what was i doing wrong. here are the solutions that didn't work my .vimrc contains set shiftwidth=2 set tabstop=2 solutio

Re: getquickfix list, pattern

2011-06-14 Thread cyboman
On Jun 14, 3:53 pm, cyboman wrote: > help for getquickfixlist says that the pattern entry is the search > pattern used to locate the error. i echoed it into a file and looked > at the value of the pattern and it is always empty.  when i read help > i thought pattern would be one o

getquickfix list, pattern

2011-06-14 Thread cyboman
help for getquickfixlist says that the pattern entry is the search pattern used to locate the error. i echoed it into a file and looked at the value of the pattern and it is always empty. when i read help i thought pattern would be one of the values used in errorformat, however as it seems it is n

difference between buffers and windows

2011-06-14 Thread cyboman
i'm not new to vim but somewhat confused about this. what is the difference between buffers and windows in vim? and is it significant? any help is appreciated. -- 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

unmatch the syntax

2011-06-02 Thread cyboman
i'm writing code that which syntax is very similar to vhdl however the code is case sensitive. i would like to be able to made some modifications to the syntax highlighting without modifying the actual vhdl.vim. i understood that i need to put my syntax file into .vim/ after/syntax/vhdl.vim. howeve

Re: quick fix to jump between warnings and errors

2011-05-24 Thread cyboman
On May 4, 9:10 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: > On 30/04/11 5:13 AM, cyboman wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > the compiler and lint tool my company is using generate 3 kinds of > > messages:errors,warningsand info. right now my keys are mapped in > > such

Re: quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-24 Thread cyboman
On May 23, 8:35 pm, Ben Schmidt wrote: > >> First, note that it doesn't behave as you claim. I saved your example > >> into a file, sourced your :set commands then did :cfile on the file > >> saved earlier, and I got this in the quickfix window: > > >> || filepath1,123, Warning 3: this is a warn

Re: quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-24 Thread cyboman
On May 23, 8:35 pm, Ben Schmidt wrote: > >> First, note that it doesn't behave as you claim. I saved your example > >> into a file, sourced your :set commands then did :cfile on the file > >> saved earlier, and I got this in the quickfix window: > > >> || filepath1,123, Warning 3: this is a warn

quickfix, linker and erroformat

2011-05-23 Thread cyboman
then linker my company is using has the following error format: Error[e46]: message ( path\to\the\offending\file.obj ) which is mapped in my errorformat as follows: set errorformat=%EError\[%.%n\]:\ %m\(\ %f\ \),%Z " linker error which quickfix outputs as follows path\to\the\offending\file.obj|

errorformat, error/warning number with letters in it

2011-05-23 Thread cyboman
my compiler produces errors/warnings in the following format: "path\to\fiile1",line_number level[tag]: message ("file1",53 Warning[Te551]: message for file 1) where level is either warning/info/error, and tag is usually two letters and a number (Te551). right now i have my errorformat set to set

Re: quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-22 Thread cyboman
On May 22, 10:38 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: > On 22/05/11 12:44 PM, cyboman wrote: > > > > > the lint we are using outputs warnings and info messages. they are all > > in the same format: > > "file_path",line_number message_type message_type_number: me

Re: break line that is too line in QuickFix list

2011-05-21 Thread cyboman
On May 21, 2:42 pm, Marcin Szamotulski wrote: > On 13:55 Sat 21 May     , Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi Ben! > > > On Sa, 21 Mai 2011, Ben Schmidt wrote: > > > > I tried writing some autocommands, but they didn't work, because it > > > seems the buffer type isn't set until a

quick fix doesn't process info and warning messages correctly

2011-05-21 Thread cyboman
the lint we are using outputs warnings and info messages. they are all in the same format: "file_path",line_number message_type message_type_number: message where message_type is either warning or info however for some reason when a warning message is followed by an info message quick fix puts al

Re: break line that is too line in QuickFix list

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
On May 20, 7:04 pm, Ben Schmidt wrote: > On 21/05/11 7:06 AM, cyboman wrote: > > > does anybody know if there is a way to break a line of text that is > > too long in QuickFix list. say if the line is longer than 60 > > characters move the word to the next line. i&

do not expand ~/

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
is there an option telling vim not to expand ~/ ? thanks -- 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

break line that is too line in QuickFix list

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
does anybody know if there is a way to break a line of text that is too long in QuickFix list. say if the line is longer than 60 characters move the word to the next line. i'm sure there is a way to do this globally but i need it to be done only in QuickFix list window. any help is appreciated --

Re: regular expressions in errorformat

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
On May 20, 4:13 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2011-05-20, cyboman wrote: > > does anybody know if it is possible to use regular expressions in > > errorformat option? and if yes then how can i do it? > > Yes it is.  There is not a help tag for that particular entry,

regular expressions in errorformat

2011-05-20 Thread cyboman
does anybody know if it is possible to use regular expressions in errorformat option? and if yes then how can i do it? thanks. -- 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

errorformat traps extra messages

2011-05-19 Thread cyboman
i'm new to using this option and find it very useful. the compiler and link tools we use at work produce info, warning and error messages. i'm trying to play with errorformat to distinguish between the messages but so far unsuccessful. for some reason it traps info and warning messages together. f

Re: error file for quick fix

2011-05-19 Thread cyboman
On May 18, 1:15 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2011-05-18, cyboman wrote: > > On May 17, 4:02 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2011-05-17, cyboman wrote: > > > > On May 11, 9:29 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: > > > > > On 11/05/11 11:11 PM, cyboman wrote: &

source file with no errors

2011-05-19 Thread cyboman
i'm continuously making additions to my _vimrc file and sometimes need to re-source the file. i have a lot of mappings in the file so every time i re-source it i get errors saying that the given mapping already exists. does anybody know if there is a way to source _vimrc without showing all those

Re: error file for quick fix

2011-05-18 Thread cyboman
On May 17, 4:02 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2011-05-17, cyboman wrote: > > On May 11, 9:29 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: > > > On 11/05/11 11:11 PM, cyboman wrote: > > > > > i have the following settings in my _vimrc for make > > > > > set make

Re: error file for quick fix

2011-05-17 Thread cyboman
On May 11, 9:29 am, Ben Schmidt wrote: > On 11/05/11 11:11 PM, cyboman wrote: > > > i have the following settings in my _vimrc for make > > > set makeef=error.err " the errorfile for :make and :grep > > set makeprg=gmake.exe\ --win32 > > set errorformat=%

Re: gvim CRITICAL error

2011-05-17 Thread cyboman
On May 17, 5:59 am, Albie Janse van Rensburg wrote: > cyboman wrote on 17/05/2011 05:00 AM: > > > i installed gvim on my linux machine, but i'm getting a critical > > error. it doesn't really bug me, since gvim is working fine but i > > would like to know wh

gvim CRITICAL error

2011-05-16 Thread cyboman
i installed gvim on my linux machine, but i'm getting a critical error. it doesn't really bug me, since gvim is working fine but i would like to know why i have. this is what i sometimes have displayed in the terminal: ** (gvim:27474): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_box: assertion `height >= -1'

Re: makeprg, WinXP and spaces

2011-05-13 Thread cyboman
On May 13, 4:42 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2011-05-13, cyboman wrote: > > On May 13, 3:52 pm, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2011-05-13, cyboman wrote: > > > > i'm trying to set a path for my gmake.exe in WinXP. unfortunately it > > > > just happen

makeprg, WinXP and spaces

2011-05-13 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to set a path for my gmake.exe in WinXP. unfortunately it just happens so that company i'm working for has gmake.exe on a per project basis. i.e. C:\Documents and Settings\username\projects\projectname\trunk\tools \gmake.exe i think i figured out how i'm going to set my makeprg but unf

search .vimrc and .viminfo in a different directory

2011-05-12 Thread cyboman
i would like to move my .vimrc and .viminfo files in .vim directory. the reason for it is so that i could keep my .vim directory under svn. does anybody know how to tell vim to search for .viminfo and .vimrc in different directories? please click "reply to author" when replying this thread. any h

error file for quick fix

2011-05-11 Thread cyboman
i have the following settings in my _vimrc for make set makeef=error.err " the errorfile for :make and :grep set makeprg=gmake.exe\ --win32 set errorformat=%f\(%l\)\ :\ %m,%C\ \ %p^\,%C%p~,%A\"%f\"\\,%l%m\,%C%m \,%Z unfortunately i'm not able to find the error.err file after compilation. can some

search lines without a pattern

2011-05-10 Thread cyboman
does anybody know how to do search of lines that don't contain a pattern: /pattern searches for a occurrence of a pattern, but i need a way to search for lines that don't have a pattern. please click reply to author when replying this thread. any help is appreciated. -- You received this mess

Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor

2011-05-05 Thread cyboman
thank you everyone. i ended up using winsaveview()/winrestview() On May 5, 12:47 pm, ZyX wrote: > Reply to message «Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving > the > cursor», > sent 19:41:41 05 May 2011, Thursday > by cyboman: > > > the idea is not to m

Re: search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor

2011-05-05 Thread cyboman
the idea is not to move the cursor. :$ moves it to the end of file. does anybody have any other suggestions. also please click 'Reply to author' so i could get notified. thanks On May 5, 11:01 am, "Christian Brabandt" wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 4:55 pm, cyboman wrote: &

search for the last pattern occurrence without moving the cursor

2011-05-05 Thread cyboman
i'm writing a script to modify the copyright notice. the problem is that are multiple notices in the file. i need to be able to find a line where the last notice occurs. vim search() function finds only the first pattern occurrence. does anybody know of a way to find the last pattern occurrence? h

Re: determine if a certain line occurs in a file

2011-05-02 Thread cyboman
thanks everyone. On Apr 30, 9:46 pm, "John Beckett" wrote: > cyboman wrote: > > i'm trying to write a small vim function which will modify a > >copyrightyear each time i'm opening a file. > > You might want to look at th

determine if a certain line occurs in a file

2011-04-30 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to write a small vim function which will modify a copyright year each time i'm opening a file. here is what i came up with function UpdateCopyrightYear() let l:cmd = 's/\(\d\+\)/\1-'.strftime("%Y").'/' g/Copyright 2010, Company E/exec l:cmd endfunction the problem that i'm facing r

capture result of a global search

2011-04-29 Thread cyboman
does anybody know if there is a way to capture the result of a global search in vim. for example in perl i can do the following string =~ /(pattern1)someword/i and $1 will contain patter1. is something like this possible in vim scripting? any help is appreciated -- You received this message fr

quick fix to jump between warnings and errors

2011-04-29 Thread cyboman
the compiler and lint tool my company is using generate 3 kinds of messages: errors, warnings and info. right now my keys are mapped in such a way that in quick fix window i jump between warnings, errors and info. is there a way to setup key mappings so that one key would only jump between errors,

vim %

2011-04-28 Thread cyboman
i'm trying to learn a bit of vim scripting, specifically i'm trying to understand how to do something similar to scanf(). say we have a command map ,cd :cd %:p:h what do those %:p:h mean? can anyone recommend a help file i need do read in order to understand the meanings of %:p:h? any help is a

execute command from vim in windows

2011-04-27 Thread cyboman
i need to run an executable from vim. the problem that i'm facing is that directory names in the path to this file contain spaces and vim doesn't recognize that. here is the problem C:\Documents and Settings\myhomedirectory\someotherdirectory \executable.exe when i execute from vim !C:\\Documents