Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to easily have vim place a closing tag after I've typed the opening tag. For example, if I have typed <mytag>, I want to...
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Andre Pang
ozone@...
Nov 3, 2001 12:39 pm
hi, i'm trying to implement a multi-window view on the same file, which looks something like this: +------+-----+ ... +------+-----+ so that you can have two...
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Alper Ersoy
aersoy@...
Nov 3, 2001 12:39 pm
... Hello, There's a script at http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=13 advertised to do specifically what you want to do (I haven't tried it...
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Brian Parker
bparker@...
Nov 3, 2001 12:55 pm
Awesome! Thanks....
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 3, 2001 1:09 pm
... What happens with ":split f1", while you are already editing 'f1", is that Vim thinks you want to reload the file "f1". You can only have one buffer for a...
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Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Nov 3, 2001 1:16 pm
Andre Pang wrote; ... It does sound like a nice feature. It should be simple to implement. If someone makes a patch for it that's simple and good I might...
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Paul Tremblay
phthenry@...
Nov 3, 2001 3:09 pm
... Yes. In fact, I had set this in my .vimrc: nmap j=gj nmap k=gk But that completely limits my ability to scroll to scrolling one line at a time. Vim, and...
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K T Ligesh
lxlingan@...
Nov 3, 2001 3:19 pm
... I would like to know whether the thing worked in the end. I had fixed the problem and put up the new version at my site. http://www.lxlinux.com/gdbvim.tgz ...
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Paul Tremblay
phthenry@...
Nov 3, 2001 3:22 pm
WOOPS! Forgot to include the file in my last email. I included it in this email. ... Yes. In fact, I had set this in my .vimrc: nmap j=gj nmap k=gk But that...
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Piet Delport
siberiyan@...
Nov 3, 2001 6:33 pm
... They're essentially a way of doing multi-line matches. For example: /foo\_.*bar will match everything between (and including) foo and bar, across multiple...
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Alan G. Isaac
aisaac@...
Nov 3, 2001 6:56 pm
... You mean you told it not to! You have to decide what you want: it you want two contradictory things, obviously you cannot have them both at the same time....
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Piet Delport
siberiyan@...
Nov 3, 2001 7:56 pm
... I think the terms word ("small word") and WORD ("big word") make much more sense, especially considering the basic movement commands (`w' and `W') that...
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Paul Tremblay
phthenry@...
Nov 3, 2001 8:59 pm
... I want gvim to scroll on screen line at a time. It doesn't matter if I map this key sequence or not. Let me state again: I have very long lines of text...
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Piet Delport
siberiyan@...
Nov 3, 2001 9:15 pm
... Hmm, <C-6> is normal for the US keyboard layout (which gets used here in SA), as `^' is actually a shifted `6'. I'm guessing that <C-6> is what's used...
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Piet Delport
siberiyan@...
Nov 3, 2001 9:40 pm
... One possible way of shortening this is through a user command: function LetDefault(opt, val) if !exists(opt) exec 'let '.a:opt.'='.a:val endif endfunction ...
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Gary Johnson
garyjohn@...
Nov 3, 2001 9:45 pm
... Yes, that's what I meant. I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. Thanks, Benji. Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies ...
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Piet Delport
siberiyan@...
Nov 3, 2001 10:11 pm
... I, for one, prefer the current default of leaving it off. :-) ... Adapted from the example at the top of diff.txt: if &diff set number endif A more...
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Alper Ersoy
aersoy@...
Nov 3, 2001 10:42 pm
... Paul, I can perfectly scroll up and down by screen lines (e.g. without going thru the EOLs) by gj and gk. Have you tried them without mapping them ...
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Piet Delport
siberiyan@...
Nov 3, 2001 11:03 pm
... I think the problem here is that Vim was designed around the concept of `real' lines, not screen lines. Things like the 'wrap' setting and gj/gk/g0/g$...
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Peoter Veliki
peoter_vim@...
Nov 3, 2001 11:49 pm
Using an external scripting language I can create functions that uses a timer and a callback mechanism, this is good for things like continuous scrolling. I...
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Rory Campbell-Lange
rory@...
Nov 3, 2001 11:51 pm
I've been trying to format some mail messages to my preferred style, which is the mutt default of "> ". ... I've tried setting fo=tcq and then gqap after...
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Brian Medley
bpmedley@...
Nov 4, 2001 12:28 am
... I believe the original poster was talking about grabbing the schollbar and moving it up and down with the mouse. I may be mistaken, though.. -- ...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Nov 4, 2001 3:24 am
... If you want to use :so! (reading Normal-mode commands from a file) then I suggest you try the -w option when invoking vim. ... At least, use a ":" to enter...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Nov 4, 2001 3:26 am
... Exactly what did you do to set $VIM? What do you get from ... before and after trying to set it? How is it not working? --Benji Fisher...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Nov 4, 2001 3:55 am
... That's the right idea, but there are a few problems. You forgot "a:" in the first line of the function, and you should have called your command with "bar"...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Nov 4, 2001 4:08 am
... Have you actually tried this? My guess is that this would not be too slow on my computer, which is a couple of years old. ... If you use <C-W>w with a...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Nov 4, 2001 4:13 am
... I thought so, too, at first. After some thought, I think I understand the question, and I do not know a solution. There is a difference between scrolling...
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Benji Fisher
benji@...
Nov 4, 2001 4:17 am
... [snip] ... I have noticed this, too, but never bothered to put appropriate maps into my vimrc file. (That is, the inconsistency never bothered me enough.)...
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Andre Pang
ozone@...
Nov 4, 2001 4:21 am
... Thanks for all the help guys :). I don't actually need to set local variables inside a function (I was using it to set default values for global...
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Andre Pang
ozone@...
Nov 4, 2001 4:40 am
... I did, and it didn't appear too slow, but it had some other problems which I won't go into (I can send you the source and describe the problem if you're...
