Re: vim-mnemonics for hjkl.

2021-03-04 Thread johanns
On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 02:14:29AM -0800, hongy...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed the following mnemonics for vim shortcut keys from : h: left j: down k: up l: right But I still can't figure out the correspondence between the

Re: Upgrade to recent version broke vimrc -- doesnt recognize unix style environmental variables

2021-02-17 Thread johanns
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:47:09AM -0600, tom wrote: I was working in vim and tried to sort something. The sort didn't work as I expected. I thought I would upgrade to version 8.0 in the hopes that would fix it. The upgrade gave me a new problem. in my vimrc there was the line set backupdir=$H

Re: Stop notification from :wn

2021-02-17 Thread johanns
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 10:40:15AM -0800, cjsmall wrote: 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 the

Starting Native Windows GVim 8.2 from MinGW Git Bash

2020-05-14 Thread johanns
I finally have a newish Windows 10 64-bit laptop for a course and, per instructions, have installed Git Bash that uses MinGW from: https://git-scm.com/downloads I also have a standard native Window build of GVIm 8.2 installed under: C:\Program File (x86)\Vim\vim82 which I believe was the default

Re: Starting Native Windows GVim 8.2 from MinGW Git Bash

2020-05-14 Thread johanns
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 03:17:55PM -0400, joha...@nacs.net wrote: I finally have a newish Windows 10 64-bit laptop for a course and, per instructions, have installed Git Bash that uses MinGW from: https://git-scm.com/downloads I also have a standard native Window build of GVIm 8.2 installed und

Re: VIM on Windows Work Laptop

2020-03-10 Thread johanns
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 06:45:52AM -0800, Jack corley wrote: Hey, guys I recently started a position that requires me to use a windows workstation but I would like to have access to vim and the plugins I normally would use. I feel infinitely slower doing basic tasks without it. I managed to inst

Applying Settings in vimrc Or gvimrc Based on v:servername

2020-02-11 Thread johanns
While working on a Windows machine, I found that I could selectively load settings or plugins based on the Vim servername by do a regular expression check against the v:servername variable right in vimrc. Example: if v:servername =~ '^\cHPWORK\d*' ru HP/HPSpecificPlugin.vim endif I had b