On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:45:32AM EDT, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2006-08-19, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..] > > I'm three hours behind/ahead of you (EST) .. so it's bedtime for me .. > It's getting late here, too, but I just got a new Windows PC and two > new flat-panel monitors that I share between the Windows PC and my > Linux PC, so I'm trying to get everything configured the way I want. So .. how did it go..? By the way, I was pretty sick with the flu (!) when I last posted and I really could have sworn (same as with Tony M.) that I had replied to this message. > > Main thing that I have to figure out is a simple way to get back to > > column 1 when starting a new list item. When I am done entering > > item #1, I need to type "2." in columns 1 and 2 and if I just hit > > enter to start a new line, Vim jumps to column 4. So I escape back > > to command mode .. Vim moves the cursor to column 1 .. I hit "i" .. > Just hit Ctrl-D after the enter that finishes the item. Actually, > you can hit Ctrl-D any time while you're typing the next numbered > line. That will move the line one shift-width to the left, just as > '<<' does in normal mode. > Perfect .. > > Also, I created a ten-item list and the text in item #10 and items > > #1 to #9 is not aligned. So I select the column that has the space > > that separated 1. .. 2. .. from the text <Ctrl-V> .. yank it .. and > > hit "p" causing Vim to indent the text in items 1-9 by an additional > > column. Need to check the help files .. see if there's a better > > way. > I usually usually use Ctrl-V to select the first column of text, > then type 'I' and a space and <Esc>. Your method is slightly > better, as long as you're not using tabs and a deeply-indented list. > Well .. I have installed a plugin that causes <Tab> to do completion in insert mode (instead of entering a tab ..) .. so I have to do a Ctrl-V <Tab> .. so I don't use tabs very often these days. I probably need to get rid of the plugin but for the life of me, I can't rememeber what it's called. :-) > > Lastly.. I need to check what happens with fo+=a .. see if this > > plays well with automatic formatting of paragraphs. Hopefully Vim > > will reflow text without losing track of the list indent. > It seems to work well most of the time, but there are a few cases > where it doesn't, notably when a sentence ends in a number, such as a > year or a model number, and that number wraps to the start of the next > line. Then vim insists on indenting the line following that number as > though the number was a list item. Like this, assuming a narrow > 'textwidth': > Columbus sailed the ocean blue in > 1492. Then some more text just to > fill in the line. gotcha .. > Consequently, I never include 'n' and 'aw' in 'fo' at the same time. > Is there any way I could map a simple toggle to (de)activate fo+=a (auto-format) .. so I can get rid of it quickly when it starts causing problems .. such as editing mail headers in mutt .. eg. ?? Thanks again. cga
