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Hello, I was looking for a regexp which matches lines which have unterminated latex commands. Basically, I wanted the following behavior... \com{asdf}...
9 Dec 2, 2003
11:40 pm

John Aldridge
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Hi, when using cscope, the cscopetag is set which basically disables the regular functionality of :tag. It also means that you can no longer use ... How do I...
1 Dec 2, 2003
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... ... but "* is empty after this. I'd like to trap the output generated by the completion so I can :put it into a buffer [so that I can use 'lid' on each of...
5 Dec 2, 2003
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Keith Roberts
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Hello, I think it would be quite useful to have a command in such that the ... What this command would do is the analogous of :sav but instead of keeping the...
3 Dec 2, 2003
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Keith Roberts
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gq.vim provides a variant on Vim's built-in beautifier "gq". People who use (G)Vim for mailing, i. e. to wrap and "beautify"; lines prepended by angle brackets,...
2 Dec 2, 2003
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David Fishburn
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in win32 gvim, is there a key stroke to maximize the window (not the internal vim window, but the entire gvim window, where i'd have to click the maximize...
6 Dec 2, 2003
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David Fishburn
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Hi all, I have set encoding=utf-8 in both my .vimrc and my .gvimrc. And still whenever I create a file, be it in the Terminal (which has it's encoding to UTF-8...
3 Dec 2, 2003
2:33 pm

Benji Fisher
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Vim 6.2.154 WinXP I have the following in my vimrc: " Courtesy of Jürgen Krämer " When you page up and down, your cursor will finish on the same " line it...
2 Dec 2, 2003
2:11 pm

Jürgen Krämer
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Hi, One of my coworkers Tom Uijldert has written a syntax hilighting file for VAX Macro32 source code, an assembly-like language that is used on VMS. It is...
1 Dec 2, 2003
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Coen Engelbarts
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Hi all, I use Outlook Express and receive Vim mailings in digest format. The messages show up as attachments. Other than changing mail programs, is there...
3 Dec 2, 2003
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Ing. Stanislav Sitar
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how do you turn off a plugin from inside vim. like if i have a script file in my plugins dir and i dont want it to be interpreted by vim. without having to...
3 Dec 2, 2003
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Antoine J. Mechelynck
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I've used Vim for years but I recently reloaded my Windows XP machine and upgraded to Vim 6.2. For some reason, I now get the following message: E33: No...
13 Dec 1, 2003
6:55 pm

Mike Blocker
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Hello all, I'm running RH9 machine with UTF-8 encoding as the "core" one. Time to time I'm editing documents in ISO-8859-2 and CP-1250 encoding. To make my...
3 Dec 1, 2003
4:38 pm

Antoine J. Mechelynck
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Vim 6.2.154 WinXP I have this function (from a previous posting): function! InvertString(str) " Courtesy of Antony Scriven " This will invert/reverse a string ...
11 Dec 1, 2003
4:20 pm

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I have built Vim 6.2 including patches 1-154 for use with cscope on Cygwin (since the binary distributed with Cygwin does not support cscope). My computer is...
8 Dec 1, 2003
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owen beresford
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With regards to the following tip on autocomplete... http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=610 is there a way that I can enable an autocomplete only for say...
3 Dec 1, 2003
1:56 pm

Benji Fisher
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I'm trying to get vim and sniff to talk and for the most part it is a one-way conversation. I can connect to sniff and from sniff I can edit the file in vim...
5 Dec 1, 2003
1:47 pm

William Natter
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in a script how can i tell if im in visual mode? I know to find out if im in insert-mode i can check the return value of &insertmode, but theres no &visualmode...
5 Dec 1, 2003
4:22 am

Benji Fisher
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Hi, I have got a copy of VIM 6.2 source which I got from the www.vim.org site and have built it on mingw 3.1.0.1 on msys 1.0.9 using the command: make -f...
2 Nov 30, 2003
10:41 pm

Dan Sharp
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how can i enter a command while in visual mode. i want to be in visual mode and type ":echo mode()" and have it say 'v'...
2 Nov 30, 2003
2:02 am

Steve Hall
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I am using gvim 6.2 on a Linux pc and have noticed the following: If I invoke the editor (e.g. gvim file.c) and use the mouse to highlight some text (for...
2 Nov 29, 2003
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Antoine J. Mechelynck
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how can I escape a period in an abbreviation? ... or...
4 Nov 29, 2003
4:58 pm

Antoine J. Mechelynck
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Hi, In windows, i can do: <SHIFT>+<DOWN> (shift key and numeric keypad "down" key simultaneously), and it gives the effect of pressing v (visual), then...
3 Nov 29, 2003
2:43 pm

Russell Shaw
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Can one add :scripts to vim that are run when a keyword is entered into the ... I am a windows Vim user who would like to make a script that: 1) saves the...
2 Nov 28, 2003
9:37 pm

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When i copy an entire yanked line of text to my clipboard like: shift+v "+y ..is there a way to automatically make it not count the \n, so when i paste, its...
4 Nov 28, 2003
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Vim 6.2.154 I have a SQL file with all the keywords highlighted yellow. I want to perform a search and replace to change all the yellow words to uppercase. I...
2 Nov 28, 2003
5:00 pm

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... Change the function to "return" the thing-to-insert. Then use the expression register. <C-R>=SomeFunction() (I haven't tested it.) HTH, Tony....
1 Nov 27, 2003
10:20 pm

Antoine J. Mechelynck
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Hi, I got some problems with imap. I did a imap something like this : imap < <C-O>:call somefunction() When the user presses "<", this function gets called....
1 Nov 27, 2003
9:58 pm

Ravi Shankar Sivaraman
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Hi, I'm interested to know if its possible to configure VI to set its indenting using C macros. Here's basically my problem. I've made a number of macros that...
2 Nov 27, 2003
3:35 pm

Benji Fisher
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Hello, I am trying to use vim for all of my work now. Of late I am writing more CSS files. The win32 editor I used before for this was Homesite by macromedia....
8 Nov 27, 2003
2:08 pm

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