Firstly I'll say this is my first post to this group and I've not been monitoring traffic, so apologies if I break protocol here. I've been trying for the last...
Steve Hobbs
no1_fiddler@...
Oct 1, 2004 3:18 pm
37689
Doug, This list is by no means comprehensive! It's just what I've seen personally.
Look at the comments at the bottom of the following file, I've included...
whiteinge.3080444@...
Oct 1, 2004 8:35 pm
37690
Do you have written the letter?...
eljay@...
Oct 2, 2004 9:57 am
37691
... My idea is that it's common to want to preview text that is input for processing in some way. I would not want to see the result in Vim itself, but in a...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 2, 2004 3:28 pm
37692
... Thanks for writing this down. ... I think this is not a mode, we need commands to go backward and forward in time. This doesn't change the state of Vim,...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 2, 2004 3:29 pm
37693
... That's probably a GTK problem. Loading its libraries and doing the GUI startup stuff can be slow. ... [...] ... This is non-standard, thus the existing...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 2, 2004 3:29 pm
37694
... I also remember some troubles with font scanning. Maybe strace/truss gvim could give a clue... Yeti -- Do not use tab characters. Their effect is not...
David Necas (Yeti)
yeti@...
Oct 2, 2004 4:42 pm
37695
... I agree to the fullest. ... I've installed A-A-P from CVS and Agide via A-A-P. Seems to work well. I'll study the code and see how much I can find out...
sybren@...
Oct 2, 2004 4:53 pm
37696
... Since there are so many GUI libraries, and there is no single one that's available (almost) everywhere, it's probably best to use an external program for...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 2, 2004 5:38 pm
37697
... Didn't see a response on this. I wonder why you need to select a directory in Vim. The low-level function gui_mch_browse() doesn't support it at the ...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 2, 2004 7:04 pm
37698
... Ok. ... wxWindows also has the added benefit that it'll use the system's native widget set - GTK on Linux and other UNIX systems, Windows on ehm......
sybren@...
Oct 2, 2004 11:20 pm
37699
... To select a location for placing files. I wrote a script for non-computer saavy users to process reams of data files and they need to select locations for...
Steve Hall
digitect@...
Oct 3, 2004 1:04 am
37700
... Are you willing to use the embedded perl interpreter? If so, the following will do it for gtk2: function! BrowseDir() perl <<EOF use Gtk2; my $choose = new...
Moshe Kaminsky
kaminsky@...
Oct 3, 2004 6:39 am
37701
This is the feature request that I wanted to post long ago. Maybe now is ripe time to post this because vim7, with many new additions, is in the works. Here is...
Yakov Lerner
qlerner@...
Oct 3, 2004 9:47 am
37702
I understand an sympathize completely! Things can get to a state where they are best served up with a generous portion of Ragu(R). I don't, however,...
Dave Silvia
dsilvia@...
Oct 3, 2004 10:22 am
37703
... For Linux you can use (at least temporarily - script, not patch way) kdialog : kdialog --style <something gtkish> --getexistingdirectory [startDir] m. -- ...
Mikolaj Machowski
mikmach@...
Oct 3, 2004 10:28 am
37704
... This is actually an idea that has been in the back of my head for a while. I tried explaining in the Vim tutorial how to find out where your vimrc file is...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 3, 2004 12:00 pm
37705
Hi, I don't know if this really deserves to be called a bug, but here it is: If I map <Space> in insert mode, abbreviations are not expanded when I press...
Moshe Kaminsky
kaminsky@...
Oct 3, 2004 2:51 pm
37706
... You observation is correct. Exactly this issue was discussed on the vim list several months ago (look up abbreviation-related threads). Also, the behaviour...
Yakov Lerner
qlerner@...
Oct 3, 2004 4:02 pm
37707
... I'm sure it's possible to set the variables to a recommended location. If the "advanced" user prefers some nonstandard, other than compiled-in...
Yakov Lerner
qlerner@...
Oct 3, 2004 4:50 pm
37708
... Starting with Vim 6.3 abbreviations are not triggered by "noremapped" keys. This problem was half-fixed by patch 6.3.023 for when the Space key is mapped...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 3, 2004 5:45 pm
37709
Yakov Lerner <qlerner@...> wrote: [...] ... [...] 1) On some systems such as Windows, there is a "2nd user vimrc" location compiled-in (in this...
Antoine J. Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 4, 2004 6:15 am
37710
... OK. It should be clearly marked in the GUI however, so that the user knows, that it is in this time-shifting or review "mode", where he can't change...
David Schweikert
dws@...
Oct 4, 2004 7:04 am
37711
... You're right. I am using gvim 6.3.028 on Win XP. With ... then, in Insert mode, starting a line as st followed by a space does not expand the abbreviation,...
Antoine J. Mechelynck
antoine.mechelynck@...
Oct 4, 2004 7:18 am
37712
... But you _can_ make changes. As soon as you do this a new branch in the tree is created. Just like what happens when you make a change after pressing "u"...
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 4, 2004 8:59 am
37713
... It's not clear if disabling remapping explicitly also means that ... Since the RHS of the mapping starts with the LHS, remapping is automatically disabled....
Bram Moolenaar
Bram@...
Oct 4, 2004 8:59 am
37714
Hello, I posted a message a week ago about adding graphical drawing routines to VIM maybe using Tk and I'm not sure if this message is in response to my ...
Dan Fabrizio
dfabrizio@...
Oct 4, 2004 1:46 pm
37715
... It isn't. It's something I thought of before joining this list. ... What I'm planning is to add some sort of graphical window outside of VIM, so graphical...
sybren@...
Oct 4, 2004 2:22 pm
37716
... What's the difference to undo then? I think that in order to implement such a time shifting functionality, it should be forbidden to make changes and thus...
David Schweikert
dws@...
Oct 4, 2004 4:06 pm
37717
It seems to be too expensive comparing with the benefit, in my opinion....
