On 16/02/14 01:17, Lew_Rockwell_fan wrote:
I feel sure there must be a how-to on this somewhere but I'm not finding it.
The vim related documentation on the web is a HUGE haystack.
The right place to look for Vim documentation is the inline help. It is
still a huge haystack though. To help you search that, see
:help
:help help
:help helphelp
:help :helpgrep
Ideally, I'd like to define buttons and menus, indicated by text, not icons,
and put them both on the menu bar and delete the tool bar. If that's not
possible my second choice is to edit the toolbar, removing most of what's on
there and putting on a user-defined button or two. It would be nice to be
able to edit the menus too. Or some of what I want to do could alternately
be accomplished by defining key bindings. Most immediately, I want to make
cntrl-w toggle wrap like it does in cream. If I could also put that function
in a button that would be very nice. If I could put the button on the menu
bar instead of the tool bar and delete the tool bar that would be very, very
nice indeed.
To hide (i.e. avoid displaying) the toolbar:
:help 'guioptions'
:help go-T
To add menu items:
:help creating-menus
Beware of changing the function of already defined hotkeys: Ctrl+W
already has very useful but different functions in both Normal and
Insert modes, see
:help CTRL-W
:help i_CTRL-W
If I wanted to toggle wrap by means of a single key, I would use one of
the F keys, most of which are unassigned by out-of-the-box Vim: either
:map <F12> :set invwrap<CR>
:imap <F12> <C-O>:set invwrap<CR>
or
:map <F12> :set wrap<CR>
:map <S-F12> :set nowrap<CR>
:imap <F12> <C-O>:set wrap<CR>
:imap <S-F12> <C-O>:set nowrap<CR>
You could also add similar commands to the menubar, either as a menuitem
in one of the existing menus, or (if you want to define many such new
menus) as part of a new menu of your own. Again, that is all described
under :help creating-menus
If anyone could point me toward something simple and step-by-step explicit
on any part of what I'm looking for I would appreciate it.
I'm a gedit-refugee, new to the vi family of editors. I finally got tired of
waiting for the gedit devs to fix the line-numbering-with-large-fonts bug so
I looked around. X2's color scheme sucks and isn't editable. Several
otherwise good editors don't so syntactic color coding. Cream is pretty
nice, and I love the toggle-wrap and intelligent indentation anticipation,
but it takes a loooooong time to start. So right now I'm focusing on evim.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks for reading.
IMHO that so-called Easy Vim is a little bit too easy compared with
"real" Vim. Maybe the way kindergarten is easy compared to high school
senior year. So I would advise you to graduate out of it as soon as you
can. Try running vimtutor if you haven't yet, IMHO that's a pretty good
hands-on tutorial to using Vim, a tutorial which doesn't eschew serious
features.
DISCLAIMER: All the latter paragraph is just my personal opinion; other
people may think differently.
Best regards,
Tony.
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"It is not hardness of heart or evil passions that drive certain
individuals to atheism, but rather a scrupulous intellectual honesty."
[Steve Allen, quoted in "2000 Years of Disbelief,
Famous People with the Courage to Doubt", by
James A. Haught, Prometheus Books, 1996]
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