On 10/25/06, Billy Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I assume excel has a limit to the number of columns.
I believe the max is 65000 but that may be increased by now.
Is it possible, in vim/gvim to open a special version of vim so that the user can begin to type, spac , and it would complete the word?
Yes.
Would it also be possible to not allow a word to be type'd if that word was not in a list.
Harder, but probably.
My questions. 1. Can vim be configured to automatically start in edit mode?
Yes, but I forget what the setting is, you can just push it into insert mode when you enter a buffer if nothing else.
2. Can vim monitor each word that is being typed?
You can remap the spacebar to trigger a function without difficulty or you can monitor every keystroke if you want something fancier. :help map.txt :help map-arguments :help autocmd :help autocmd-events
3. Can vim do word completion?
Many types. :help completion
4. Can vim offer all possible spellings for partial word completion?
It does by default and you can view them as a menu if you're using Vim 7. If you want to provide a list of possible words to be completed, it can be done by creating a ctags file. :help completeopt
If the answer to most of qeustion above is yes 5. Can I do the programming? I do perl, c, c++, csh and sh programming.
Most vim scripting is done in vimscript, which I consider to be fairly close to bash/sh. You can also do scripting in Python. I'm not sure about the perl interface.
