... Christian: Once and for all - I don't want anybody to explain me that [^\n] behaves in a wired way because '.' should behave the way it does. I'm *not*...
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Steve Litt
slitt@...
Feb 18, 2013 10:54 pm
Hi all, I injured my left middle finger and can no longer extend it. Therefore, hitting the Esc key to get out of insert mode stops my work in its tracks. ...
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Benjamin Klein
ben@...
Feb 18, 2013 10:58 pm
... I use jk: inoremap jk <Esc> This one shouldn’t require a finger from your left hand at all and is very fast indeed. -- b -- -- You received this message...
136217
John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
Feb 18, 2013 11:23 pm
... Some ideas are at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key I use the bizarre method on that page involving Enter (search for "ToggleEnterMapping")....
136218
Daniel M. Eldridge
deldridge@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:12 am
Pasting text from a wikipedia articles leaves me with lots of ???? [image: Inline image 2] ... That's the fist five lines of the languages in which there's a...
136219
John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:38 am
... I haven't looked at your images, but the problem is very likely to be due to use of an incorrect encoding. The first two lines in your vimrc should be: set...
136220
Steve Litt
slitt@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:52 am
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:58:45 -0600 ... VERY nice. Thank you Benjamin! I tried it on my laptop and it worked very well. It's a little awkward, and before my...
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Steve Litt
slitt@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:55 am
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:23:00 +1100 ... Thanks John, I wish I'd read that article years ago. Right now I'm trying jk, but I might try a lot of that web page's...
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Daniel M. Eldridge
deldridge@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:56 am
Humm...I was missing the encoding=utf-8 line but now--so now problem has not been solved. Now, instead of ???? marks I get solid blocks--the size of a...
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John Little
John.B.Little@...
Feb 19, 2013 2:26 am
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:55:34 PM UTC+13, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote: Please don't top-post. ... That means your font doesn't have the character. Vim...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
Feb 19, 2013 2:33 am
... You need a font which supports the characters you are looking at. DejaVu Sans Mono is an example of a great and free font: ...
136225
Benjamin Klein
ben@...
Feb 19, 2013 3:50 am
... You're welcome -- glad to be of help. :) I was going to say that I borrowed that one from Steve Losh's excellent (and lengthy) "Coming Home To Vim"...
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AndyHancock
AndyMHancock@...
Feb 19, 2013 7:22 am
... Wow. This is awesome. I've never heard of diffoff and cursorbind before, but cursorbind does seem to cause similar behaviour and diffoff gets rid of it....
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Erik Christiansen
dvalin@...
Feb 19, 2013 7:35 am
... Vim already uses '$' for EOL, documented at ":h $", which even seems to offer the synonym "<End>". Vim already has '.' to mean '.', so does not need...
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Erik Christiansen
dvalin@...
Feb 19, 2013 7:54 am
... The tiny and distant Esc key on laptops quickly forced me to find something better, primarily for vim, but necessarily consistent for _all_ applications,...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 8:50 am
Hi Erik! ... Well, if you think about it, $ matches something different. You can't say, "/n$n" can you? ... Because the '.' is a perfect valid alias to [^\n]...
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Paul Isambert
zappathustra@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:21 am
... You can use <expr> to define a mapping with a function: function! <SID>Map() if line(".") == 1 && wincol(".") == 1 return ":q\r" else return "h" endif ...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:23 am
Hi Marc! ... Bram, here is a patch, making [^\n] not match NL within the text and that also documents, that '.' matches CR and LF within the text. This makes...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:25 am
Hi Marc! ... Because [^\n] is perfectly valid? ... If you don't want that, use :set cpo+=l ... It is a perfect valid regular expression. What is the reason to...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:37 am
Hi AndyHancock! ... Can you give us a reproducible example starting with vim -u NONE -N Mit freundlichen Grüßen Christian -- Die Tugend, sogar eines gemeinen...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:38 am
Hi John! ... 7.3 was released in Summer 2010, IIRC regards, Christian -- Der Weise sagt niemals, was er tut - aber er tut niemals etwas, was er nicht sagen...
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Hugo Ahlenius
fraxinus@...
Feb 19, 2013 9:53 am
Hi, Is there some good spot where one can get updated Windows 64-bit binaries? I got mine previously from here: http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/ ...but...
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John Beckett
johnb.beckett@...
Feb 19, 2013 11:08 am
... I haven't tried it, but there is another site mentioned at: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Download John -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use"...
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Daniel Zhang
wodesuck@...
Feb 19, 2013 11:10 am
I map Caps_Lock as Esc 2013/2/19 Steve Litt <slitt@...> ... -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type...
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Marc Weber
marco-oweber@...
Feb 19, 2013 11:22 am
I want Vim defaults to be - sane - follow the principle of least surprise. (I'd like nocompatible to be set by default, but that's another story) Christian:...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 12:39 pm
Hi Marc! ... Well, you need to prevent that expr-quote (:h expr-quote) is being evaluated. You need to escape the \ then. ... No. Please read again what I...
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Marc Weber
marco-oweber@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:14 pm
... Let me tell you. People get to know Vim. Vim is a tool to serve users. They want to edit text, get their job done (At least that's what I assume). For this...
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Christian Brabandt
cblists@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:25 pm
... Attached is an updated patch, that also prevents /[] matching [] (a collation cannot be empty, so I think it should return an error and other vi clones do,...
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Eric Weir
eeweir@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:33 pm
... I have no problem getting into insert mode using the virtual keyboard. I was also able to remap <esc> to jj, which some have said can't be done. It is a...
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Eric Weir
eeweir@...
Feb 19, 2013 1:36 pm
... It seems not. Given the fondness of developers for vim I don't understand why. I would think especially the MacVim crowd would be interested. And given...
