I have hex value 0x1 on my window, If I press on 1 with a mapped key, I wished to have the value go on increasing to 0x2,0x3 and soon How do I do it vipin...
Hi. All these days I used to use my own hand rolled syntax files (back from the day) for syntax highlighting. Since the syntax files that come with vim these...
Hi again, I'm working with autocommands to set up differing editing environments depending on what files/buffers I'm editing. I use different config-on and...
Is it possible to have variable width tabs within a single line? I'd like to replace a "Tab marker" in a line with a variable number of spaces depending on the...
I have a small problem with all the vim6 version that I've tried: being french, I usually have to enter accented characters (ie. é, ç, à, etc...). In order...
Hi everyone I have just replaced my laptop with a palm (with keyboard) for taking lecture notes and am looking for a version of vi or something similar to run ...
I'm running gvim 5.7 under Win95. i. If I try to set breakat, it is set to an empty string. E.g., after starting Vim I check and breakat has its default value....
Hi, The internal C formatting function (":help =")seems to use different settings than the "comments"; string indicates. The default "comments"; string is: ...
Hi All, Here is the problem - I'm on a Solaris box, vim is an odler version, the perl.vim file seems a little screwy, which it doesn't in 5.6 The solution...
Hello All: Questions regarding this problem were posted earlier this week, but I have seen no response to it lately. (Have had email problems)..... I'm using...
Hi all I often find myself having to use Outlook. When reading digests, I like to <c-a><c-c> to copy the whole digest in Outlook, <m-tab> to vim, p and then...
I've been trying to flex my puny vim muscles on the following problem. Create a map to capitalise the character under the cursor or, if it's not a letter, the...
Hi , Can anybody tell me that how can I get the word on the command line on which my cursor is .. Basically I am trying to map some character to get the man...
Hello Folks, Is there any way that I could fix the direction 'n' and 'N' would search following the use of '#','*','//' or '??'. I want 'n' to always search...
Hi Claudio, Johannes, and all Shouldn't this: " special characters syn match htmlSpecialChar "&[^;]\{1,6};" [1] be this: syn match htmlSpecialChar "&[^...
Hi vimmers, I have vim with +python under linux and NT4.0. Under linux everything is fine, python macros work. The same macros work under NT4.0 if the python...
Sorry if this is an FAQ but I can't find the answer anywhere. When using vim 5.7 at the console in redhat 6.2 I get ^? when I hit backspace, whereas it works...
Has anybody thought of adding an NNTP interface to the mailing lists, the NetBeans (open source version of Forte for Java) folks have done so recently and I...
I have a color syntax file I use with gvim which I like very much. I launch gvim from a blackbox menu as I always have and everthing is cool. But I recently...
I've been playing a bit, and I'm to the point that I need to know why something happens. I regularly have multiple buffers open. When I go to :w one of those...
I sent some replies that I did not cc to vim, so I will just try and repeat my point one more time. This discussion shouldn't be limited to just IDEs, it is...
On the offchance that one of you has been waiting for just this function to be written, here's Uniq. I suspect that this will be just a :s command in Vim 6 ......
Hi, Is there a way I can get vim to start a gui when *both* input and output are not ttys ? Right now I get warning messages like Vim: Warning: Output is not...
When I used vim several years ago, it came with a utility called mvi that brought up a list of files in vim; you could edit the list to delete files and/or to...
Dear Vim users, I have trouble to set up Vim so that whenever a file is loaded, it will restore the last cursor position when the file was last loaded (or...
I know that I have seen this somewhere, but now that I need to know I can't find it. Is there a way to stop vim from outdenting comment lines to the left...
Hi, I am using Vim 5.7. I am calling put from a script to add some lines to a buffer and :%s to substitute some pattern. These two actions result in messages...
hi, I am just using vim5.6 in RedHat 6.2. after I type":syntax on" I got the error message: sorry, this command is not implemented I have $VIMRUNTIME point to...
Hello All I am using gvim 5.6 on RH 6.0 I would like to imap alt-h for cursor movement in insert mode. I have attempted to do this using the following ...
