My coworker & I are debating whether vim can do this emacs thing. He thinks vim can, I'm not convinced. In general, does vim have the capability to reposition...
While using signs for my breakpts.vim script that I recently posted (which can be used to set breakpoints in vim functions), I have observed lack of...
Hello, I've just read :h client-server, and I cannot find the answer to the following question. How can I launch gvim the following way: - if it is the first...
zj and zk seem like pseudo-motions...while they move the cursor, they can't be used as real motions for commands that take operators. If you want to delete...
Sorry to bother the list with this, but how do I unsubscribe from the vim mailing list? Ed Bachmann Odum Institute for Research in Social Science Manning Hall...
Auuugh, even with :helpgrep I'm unable to find the command that "dumps" the current Vim config info, kind of like :version, :function, ... version?) -- Steve...
People, When I load up several files on the command line, and then switch to another buffer by, say, :b4, if I then try to go to the alternate buffer (which I...
Hello, people at vim list! Just downloaded Benji Fisher's 'word_complete' script, that auto-completes the words in Insert mode as they are typed. ...
Hi all, I'm experiencing some error mesages while openning gvim ( not vim ). A function in menu.vim ( s:BMShow ) tries to use an invalid option ( &bufsecret )....
Hello! I have two questions: * I read :help map but found nothing... I frequently press the middle mouse button when I use the scroll wheel. This makes vim...
Hello all, How do I type in characters which are not in the keyboard? For example, I often copy text into vim from other programs, and it puts in characters...
Hi All, I often use one GVim section on all day, just changing buffers. But sometimes when a quit (:wq) a buffer I forget that this buffer was the last and...
Hello, how do i display characters like tabulator or newline in my text? There must be some mode for this, but i have not found it yet. happy typing, Markus...
I have written a very short python script to check a line of text in vim for spelling mistakes. The script reads in from standard input, saves to a temporary...
I'm trying to delete lines with that match /^C/ and append those lines to a register so that I can paste the results to a different part of the file. I found...
Hi! I'm quite new to Vim and like it rather much, but today something happened. When I try to save a file with :w, I get the WARNING: The file has been changed...
Hello vimmers, Forgive me if this shows up twice in your mailbox. Our email system here is in transition. A while back someone posted a message here asking...
... I have two contradicting demands: Fix all known issues and release a 6.2 version asap. To avoid postponing the 6.2 release indefinitely I have started...
e.g. Current file being edited: d:\subdir\blah.txt 1) :w d:\% ---> creates file called "%" in d:\ 2) :w d:\\% ---> creates file called "%" in d:\ 3) :w...
gVim Windows binaries updated to 6.1.423: http://cream.sf.net/vim.html o Updated to official patch 6.1.423 and current runtimes. o Includes synched patch for...
Hi, I'd like to use <bang> to modify the behaviour of a certain command. To achieve this I tried fun F(...) if exists("a:1") do this else do that endif endfun ...
I need to delete with a colon command all lines beginning with % I can search with /^% but how do I do a mass delete based on such a search? John Culleton...
I am excited to announce the general availability of selectbuf 3.0 release. For those who are not familiar with it, it is the first plugin created to ...
I am on NT, using givim 6.o. When I open vim through the start menu, the default location of the file (found via save-as) is buried deep in a sub-sub folder of...
I often want to do something like this: a && b to b && a or a, b to b, a generically abc to cba where a, b and c can possibly be quite long, and not simple...
I just tried to upload a new version of the ctags.vim script, http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=12, but I got an error message saying,...
Hi, I'm wondering whether there might be some inbuilt function returning the arguments Vim was called with on the command-line. Maybe someone knows anything...
Just report a bad case on my w2k box. I used gvim.exe(6.1.368) extensively. Today, I found my CPU is slow even after I closed everything. Eventually, I found a...
Hello, pople at vim list! I need your help again! Please, help me understand what is wrong there: when opening a specified file ('golded.msg') I want to ...
