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Hi, How to write a vim script to type from <C-V>u0000 all the way to <C-V>uffff, and keep 64 "characters&quot; per line? Thanks Xiangjiang ...
5 Oct 6, 2003
5:19 pm

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... sorry, that could be a direct consequence of last friday being a public holiday here, which was then followed by a severe weekend including YABB ...
2 Oct 6, 2003
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Hello there, so thanx for this answer...and it works for Ü (wchich has values like 220, Hex 00dc and xc39c, Oktal 334) when I type /^Vu00dc. So what I try to...
1 Oct 6, 2003
4:11 pm

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... under ... you can find other methods for entering Unicode: ^Vu and ^VU for 2byte and 4byte chars respectively. HTH, -tim...
3 Oct 6, 2003
4:10 pm

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Hello Friends, I try to search for all characters in a 250 MB file that have a encoding of two byte. Means a char like Ü (big ue, Hex 00dc, Unicode c3 9c). ...
1 Oct 6, 2003
3:39 pm

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Hello, Following the recent discussion about multibyte encoding, I decided to see how I could input a euro sign in vim. After browing the help, the web, and...
1 Oct 6, 2003
2:11 pm

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Hi all Sorry if the question is silly, but I am facing a behaviour that I can't modify. I use GVIm 6.1 under Win2000 et Linux. Few days ago, I noticed that the...
7 Oct 6, 2003
8:31 am

Jürgen Krämer
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Hi, I wonder if anyone is using the Dvorak keyboard layout with Vim. The shortcut keys seem to be designed for Qwerty, so I'm curious about how others have...
6 Oct 5, 2003
10:48 pm

Bjorn Martensson
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hello, i want to use the cindent option when editing .h .c .cpp file only. all other files, i don't want to use that option. basically, i want to use...
11 Oct 4, 2003
6:36 pm

christopher j bottaro
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I manage several websites and use vim to edit files and lftp to upload the files to the server. I wade through lots of files and lots of directories. Does...
9 Oct 4, 2003
5:07 pm

Monique Y. Herman
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Vim 6.2.106 Linux Bram, I was trying to setup a Linux box (I am a real newcomer for this). I decided to use the VIMINIT environment variable so that all users...
7 Oct 4, 2003
12:44 pm

Antoine J. Mechelynck
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Hello, I want to count words in VIM. I need to check on IF...END_IF constructs in my code so I want to count the IF's and the END_IF's. At home this can easily...
23 Oct 4, 2003
11:20 am

Antoine J. Mechelynck
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I searched the help, but only found a description of file-format designation rules. I need to edit a textfile I wrote in Vim in Microsoft Word/OpenOffice ...
35 Oct 4, 2003
9:44 am

Andrey Lebedev
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With shell set to bash.exe (cygwin version) the following command in Vim !grep -n -R -E --include=*.c '^a\|b' . > grep.tmp generates the following in the...
2 Oct 4, 2003
7:05 am

Pan Shizhu
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I have cygwin installed on my PC. I have the XFree86-base package installed. I compiled Vim with the Unix Makefile. I got errors at first because the...
5 Oct 4, 2003
6:56 am

Pan Shizhu
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I am using the visvim package. As far as I can tell, all it can do is take the file that I hvae opened in visual studio and then open it in gvim. Is it...
4 Oct 4, 2003
3:30 am

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Our AIX box was upgraded from 4.3.3 to 5.1.0. The VIM 5.8 binary became very slow getting into VIM and getting out of VIM. I thought it might need to be...
4 Oct 3, 2003
10:56 pm

Keith Roberts
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I am wondering if there is anyway to know if syntax is currently "on" or "off"? The doc mentions about a global variable called "syntax_cmd" being set to "on"...
6 Oct 3, 2003
10:10 pm

Hari Krishna Dara
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I recently upgraded to 6.2.106 with GTK2 support and found the <S-Space> mapping was no longer interpreted, it simply enters a space. Did something change? As...
3 Oct 3, 2003
12:13 pm

Steve Hall
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Hello. Is there key combination in vim that swaps two lines? (I haven't found it in FAQ) E.g., we have line1 line2 and need line2 line1 ? Thanks a lot. Artem....
5 Oct 3, 2003
7:30 am

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I'm trying to configure matchit.vim for Python. Here is what I've got so far: let b:match_words = '\<if\>:\<elif\>:\<else&#92;>,&#39; \ ....
17 Oct 2, 2003
4:24 pm

Benji Fisher
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I keep some randomly-updated vim RPMs on my personal website; for anyone interested, I've just updated these to patch level 106. You can find them under: ...
2 Oct 2, 2003
1:03 pm

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Greetings, I often mistype 'unsigned&#39; as 'unsinged&#39;. Is there any way to exchange 'g' and 'n' without erasing the whole word? Thanks. -- I never knew: RFC...
7 Oct 2, 2003
12:49 pm

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While I don't have a solution, I do have some experience, at least for the lines-of-code discussion. Basically, for counting lines of code, you need a tool of...
1 Oct 2, 2003
12:37 pm

Riehm Stephen
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I wonder, should we try to create a FAQ or not? It seems that there are many recurring questions, and as we know most of the answers have already been answered...
13 Oct 2, 2003
9:38 am

Bram Moolenaar
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I did: gvim -u NONE -U NONE ... set marks a,b,c in PATMATCH ^Wj set marks d,e,f in DB.IO ... Please note that in the attached viminfo file there are NO marks...
2 Oct 2, 2003
9:37 am

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I'm trying to automatically edit a file between processes from within an environment which is "on top of" linux. The command I use is: BASH -c "vi -s...
11 Oct 1, 2003
9:33 pm

Keith Roberts
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Hi all, I need to define a function that acts in two different ways depending on the current vim mode (actually "visual" or <anything_else>). The function will...
3 Oct 1, 2003
9:09 pm

Charles E. Campbell
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All, I am currently using vim within a vncviewer in my office as my normal mode of operation. I do this so that when I go home I can access the same vnc...
1 Oct 1, 2003
8:35 pm

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Reading under my ":he linewise", it states that "Generally, motions that move between lines affect lines (are linewise), and motions that move within a line...
5 Oct 1, 2003
7:44 pm

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