Hi, I would like to start a new vim session on an already open file. I am explicitly invoking the second vim instance in readonly mode, either with 'view' or...
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Erik Christiansen
dvalin@...
May 5, 2012 5:45 am
... Hi Kevin, Your difficulties, and the various ways to negate them informed me, and I expect they gave you choice of ways out of strife. Thilo seems to be...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
May 5, 2012 7:30 am
... An example is always helpful because it allows others to easily check the situation. I do not see what I think the above is saying in Vim 7.3.515. Perhaps...
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Thilo Six
T.Six@...
May 5, 2012 12:11 pm
Hello Kevin, Excerpt from Kevin O'Gorman: -- <snip> -- ... Which has been answered in several different ways. Choose the solution that fits you best. ... Sorry...
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Filip Rembiałkow...
filip.rembialkowski@...
May 5, 2012 1:04 pm
Hello, Please advice what I should do - file a bug report? This looks like a bug to me, but I'm not sure. Thanks On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Filip...
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dancat
deweydecdan@...
May 5, 2012 9:43 pm
Nathan, I am running into the same issue. I was wondering if you found a work around, as this problem is driving me crazy! Thanks for your time. Cheers, Dan --...
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dancat
deweydecdan@...
May 5, 2012 9:43 pm
... Nathan, I am having the same issue and it is driving me bonkers! Did you ever figure out what the problem was and how to resolve it? Cheers! Dan -- You...
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kuaf
kuaf.lee@...
May 6, 2012 1:28 am
Hi all, I saw one line command map used to insert the directory of the current buffer in command line mode in steve losh's vimrc: cnoremap <expr> %%...
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Tim Chase
vim@...
May 6, 2012 2:14 am
... Are you referring to Normal mode as "command mode"? (a common misnomer). It should perform as advertised: you press ":" to enter Command mode and then...
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sinbad
sinbad.sinbad@...
May 6, 2012 2:37 am
... I want to know how it is defined, i checked other syntax commands, they are defined as regular expressions, so even the "Function"; must be defined as one,...
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cjsmall
jefferysmall@...
May 6, 2012 2:49 am
I have a long standing question regarding vim's recovery mode. When you have a crash and then recover a file, why doesn't vim remove the .swp file after the...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
May 6, 2012 3:15 am
... See Tim's reply. However, whether to use '%:h' or '%:p:h' would be a personal preference. If the current file is in what Vim regards as the current...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
May 6, 2012 3:15 am
... My guess is that Vim is being cautious and will not delete a file that might contain useful text. I think I have only needed recovery mode once in several...
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HarleyPig
alansyoungiii@...
May 6, 2012 4:06 am
I'm writing a script to generate my own version of the vim docs and I'm trying to find a better way of getting the information I need. The variable...
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kuaf
kuaf.lee@...
May 6, 2012 6:38 am
Thank you, Tim, John. Check with "vim -u NONE", I found out it's configuration interfering. Now it worked. Thanks a lot. ... -- You received this message from...
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John Little
John.B.Little@...
May 6, 2012 8:58 am
How about vim -c "redir! > $RTP" -c 'echo &rtp' -c 'redir END' -c 'q' given $RTP set to an appropriate target. Starts the output with a blank line, I don't...
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鹏 左
zuopengpeng0123@...
May 6, 2012 11:46 am
I added a plugin called totd.vim which will show me a tip a day when launch vim, but I don't know where to download vimtips.txt. I went to Vim Tips Wiki but...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
May 6, 2012 11:57 am
... I guess that is a very old plugin (last updated July 2006): http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=88 At that time, the tips were on vim.org, and...
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HarleyPig
alansyoungiii@...
May 6, 2012 3:13 pm
... That did it, though I was hoping to avoid temp files. ... I think that has to do with not actually editing a file. Thanks for the help. -- You received...
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@RandyMcMillan
randy.lee.mcmillan@...
May 6, 2012 6:28 pm
https://github.com/RandyMcMillan/QuickVim I've found this method of setting up my vim configuration is easy. Fork/Copy and modify to your specifications. Git...
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Gary Johnson
garyjohn@...
May 6, 2012 9:05 pm
... Try this: $ vim -E -c 'echo &rtp' -c 'q' HTH, Gary -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the...
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Richard
richard.emberson@...
May 6, 2012 10:23 pm
I am using console Vim version 7.3 on Fedora Linux. When I enter <S-Tab> while executing a script, the getchar() function returns 0. (getchar() also returns 0...
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Richard
richard.emberson@...
May 6, 2012 10:23 pm
I'd like to highlight an arbitrary block of text even when normal syntax-base highlighting is in effect. ... But what I'd like to do is for a block with height...
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HarleyPig
alansyoungiii@...
May 6, 2012 10:51 pm
... That still leaves ansi escape codes in the output. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the...
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Tim Chase
vim@...
May 7, 2012 12:12 am
... I'm not sure if this does what you want, but I threw it together in the hopes that it was close. Just visually highlight the range (linewise,...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
May 7, 2012 2:08 am
... The help example has ':E123' but it means 'E123:'? What is the '^Vim...' stuff for? The messages on my system do not start with 'Vim' (use :s/xxx/xxx/ on...
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Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
May 7, 2012 2:42 am
... The exception string as caught by :catch is not identical to the error string as displayed at the bottom of the screen if there is no :try The current...
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Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
May 7, 2012 2:52 am
... There is a tips.txt among the help files distributed with Vim (on my system, /usr/local/share/vim/vim73/doc/tips.txt for Vim 7.3, last changed 2009 Nov...
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Tony Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
May 7, 2012 3:13 am
... Well, if you type ... followed by <Enter>, the answer will be on two lines: the value of the current colors for the Function highlight group, and the...
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鹏 左
zuopengpeng0123@...
May 7, 2012 4:30 am
Yeah, that is kind of old. Cause I want to learn vim day by day, there are so many vim commands, operations, settings so I can't learn them at one time. But I...
