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If I open an XML file in Notepad everything is in tags. Good. If I open the same XML file in Vim I am getting the < to display a "<" etc. How do I turn it...
7 Nov 8, 2010
7:09 pm

Robert Hicks
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Hi buddies, I usually worked on windows. Sometimes I opened a text file in the command line (cygwin) by typing "gvim <file-name>". And sometimes I open a file...
2 Nov 8, 2010
5:02 pm

Erik Falor
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I want to format numbered list in a C comment. For example, I have the following c comment. /* * 1 There is a performance issue. When session refresh is going...
1 Nov 8, 2010
6:18 am

jingguo yao
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Let's say I'm writing a comment, and it takes two lines long. I start like this: /* When user clicks, remove both 'narrow&#39; and 'large&#39; css classes and (I hit...
3 Nov 7, 2010
9:11 pm

Fernando Basso
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hello everyone, today i downloaded the current source code from google-code, configured it, compiled it... everything works fine but "vim ." doesn't launch the...
16 Nov 7, 2010
9:04 pm

ZyX
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I find myself often to align blocks of text and thought to create a regex to remove all leading spaces in a block. p.e. text a text b text c text d I would...
21 Nov 7, 2010
7:50 pm

Benjamin R. Haskell
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Hi, Normally I test regex in the command line and when it works I put them in menu.vim. I've never had problems. Command line and menu.vim are compatible I ...
7 Nov 7, 2010
6:13 pm

rameo
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I tried a lot of things during the last months, but I still do not have syntax coloring at session startup. The only filetype detected at session startup = TXT...
3 Nov 7, 2010
3:49 pm

rameo
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How could I restrict vim (terminal version via urxvt) from changing WM_NAME? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type...
3 Nov 6, 2010
4:27 pm

Benjamin R. Haskell
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... kbriggs@gold:~/Download> hg clone https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/ vim abort: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request Any suggestions? Keith -- You received this message...
2 Nov 6, 2010
11:40 am

Bram Moolenaar
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I know that currently vim support for c++0x is in development. But as far as I know, the support for c++0x lambda syntax is not planned, is that right? Anyway,...
1 Nov 6, 2010
11:17 am

Andrew Venikov
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Hello list, I'd like to announce a new website that holds both the official Vim help files and the Vim FAQ. http://vimhelp.appspot.com/ It keeps itself up to...
5 Nov 6, 2010
10:52 am

Florian Rehnisch
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Hi, I wonder if there is a way to examine every word in a document as it is loaded and select a bg color for that word. The idea i have will be used for source...
2 Nov 6, 2010
8:57 am

Karthick Gururaj
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I upgraded to 7.3 (on Fedora linux), but now two features (which used to work in 7.2 and I liked) don't work : - there is no display of the cursor row and...
3 Nov 5, 2010
10:32 pm

John Beckett
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using vim huge version with GTK2 GUI on ubuntu 10.04 I mean to eliminate the following characters: '$' , '-', and '>' (ascii 36,45,62) from php word syntax. ...
9 Nov 5, 2010
10:27 pm

Tim Johnson
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I set guisp color of CursorLine in color file: hi CursorLine guifg=NONE guibg=#121212 gui=undercurl ctermfg=NONE ctermbg=NONE...
1 Nov 5, 2010
7:51 pm

calon
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Hi all. I am not able to find how to selectively close a buffer keeping opened all another ones. I mean, having several buffers opened, I understood I should...
3 Nov 5, 2010
4:18 pm

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Hi everyone, I use VIM 6.3 (I cannot update it) on Red Hat. I have a set of abbreviations defined in my .vimrc file that allows me to type very fast. However,...
3 Nov 5, 2010
4:14 pm

Jose Caballero
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I use supertab and nextfield script (http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/ VimTip547) Nextfield script can be used to let VIM work as a tabulator (as on the old...
2 Nov 5, 2010
3:19 pm

ZyX
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I'm looking for a way to insert links to related files via comments, it should work in a similar way to html anchors. eg. in php: echo "foo"; //...
6 Nov 5, 2010
1:27 pm

Ben Fritz
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Hello, I have a problem using latest vim with omnicompletion while editing a file that is located on ftp ( :e ftp-address//), it just hangs on "searching&quot; and...
6 Nov 5, 2010
1:10 pm

Christian Brabandt
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In insert mode, if a line starts with "-" the next line is indented. This is not what I want. After a lot of experimenting, I found that it was because either ...
5 Nov 5, 2010
8:07 am

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Is there a simple way to convert a major emacs mode syntax file into an vim-syntax file? -- Johann Schatzer PGP key: 0x4212C694 -- You received this message...
3 Nov 5, 2010
7:22 am

Wm
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Hi, all. I know that this has been discussed for a long time but I still don't understand why Vim behaves like that. Some times I need to work with several...
6 Nov 5, 2010
5:42 am

Tony Mechelynck
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Hello everyone, I found that I can't map some combined keys in my terminal vim. For example,key maps of <C-tab>, <C-F9> are always invalid on my terminal vim...
3 Nov 5, 2010
1:39 am

ZyX
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... before clicking to perform your paste do ... -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you...
7 Nov 4, 2010
3:11 pm

Francisco Dibar
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Hi, I noticed that gvim has a bit of a slow down every time it opens a completion menu when the file is reasonably big (about half a second for a ~400 line...
3 Nov 4, 2010
2:29 pm

AK
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I don't know if this is a problem already solved, my vim version on windows is Vi IMproved 7.3 Included patches: 1-29 I found a problem like this, when i use...
2 Nov 4, 2010
11:41 am

Victor Gu
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I'm trying to use autocomplete in my code. Take for example the following code: def whatever_function(): # stuff whatever[now I type CTRL+N] It shows...
1 Nov 4, 2010
5:11 am

mike hoy
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Hi, I am using vim on different, remote Linux systems, and what I would like to do is to copy some text in vim into the clipboard, so I can paste the text in...
5 Nov 3, 2010
9:25 pm

John Little
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