Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.14.1732 +0100]: > > "everything"? > > > > it's a wildcard to encapsulate all commands in one! ;^> > > Nope, and it's not a bullsh^W activity report generator > either. > > Pressing '*' will do a search on the word the cursor is > currentl

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake martin f krafft on Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 05:25:11PM +0100: > also sprach Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.14.1718 +0100]: > > Who here knows what the "*" command do ??? Well I didn't and I > > wish I did ! :) > > "everything"? > > it's a wildcard to encapsulate all commands

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.14.1718 +0100]: > Who here knows what the "*" command do ??? Well I didn't and I > wish I did ! :) "everything"? it's a wildcard to encapsulate all commands in one! ;^> -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \___

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-14 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Jesse Goerz on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:35:44PM -0500: > I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html This is also full of good stuff, perhaps you could steal some of their tips ? http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/ "...Can you ima

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:57:04 -0500 dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:08:21PM -0600, Lonnie Mullenix wrote: > > | The combination of my NT box and winprinter are most likely the > | problem, and since I haven't gotten Samba working yet! I'vwe always > | had problems pri

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:08:21PM -0600, Lonnie Mullenix wrote: | The combination of my NT box and winprinter are most likely the | problem, and since I haven't gotten Samba working yet! I'vwe always | had problems printing out some of the HTML info, wnats to cut the | ends of the lines off and

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:08:21PM -0600: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:50:38 +0100 > Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: > > > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:50:38 +0100 Romain Lerallut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: > > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get > > this to print properly. > > Do you mean you can't print the HTML p

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake dman on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 04:28:57PM -0500: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:50:38PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: > | The printable version has always been not-quite-as-good as the > | HTML version. That's a fact. I'm working on switching to XML, so > | if FO is more customizable than ds

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread dman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 09:50:38PM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: | Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: | > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get | > this to print properly. | | Do you mean you can't print the HTML properly (old n

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-13 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake Lonnie Mullenix on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 08:42:46PM -0600: > Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get > this to print properly. Do you mean you can't print the HTML properly (old news... :), or that you can't print the PostScript docs ? > I broke my Debi

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-12 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:09:43PM -0600, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: | On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:44 AM dman wrote: | > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | | > | 2. I have always had problems at the start remembering keyboard | > | commands on ANY wordprocessor

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-12 Thread Donald R. Spoon
"Mark S. Reglewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:44 AM dman wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | 2. I have always had problems at the start remembering keyboard | commands on ANY wordprocessor / editor that I have ever tri

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 January 2002 10:09 pm, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:44 AM dman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: [snip] > Hahahahaha. You are obviously not old enough to remember t

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-11 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Friday, January 11, 2002 at 11:44 AM dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > | 2. I have always had problems at the start remembering keyboard > | commands on ANY wordprocessor / editor that I have ever tried. > | VI/VIM has been especially perplexing b

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-11 Thread Lonnie Mullenix
Only thing I would add is that it would be really nice to be able to get this to print properly. I broke my Debian box yesterday playing around with a couple of testing/unstable packages, so I'm stuck on this NT box for a few days. Have a Winprinter too, so that is a pita, but I'll live with

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:27:39PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote: | 2. I have always had problems at the start remembering keyboard commands | on ANY wordprocessor / editor that I have ever tried. VI/VIM has been | especially perplexing because I cannot determine the under-lying logic | used i

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-11 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:25:22AM +0100, Romain Lerallut wrote: | Thus spake dman on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:49:54PM -0500: | > Is this a complete rewrite of Romain's Vi Intro to be vim-specific? | > Quite a while back I sent Romain a patch to his document to correct a | > couple of typos and add

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-11 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake dman on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:49:54PM -0500: > Is this a complete rewrite of Romain's Vi Intro to be vim-specific? > Quite a while back I sent Romain a patch to his document to correct a > couple of typos and add some comments regarding vim's differences from > other vi-clones (and 'vi

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-10 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Thursday 10 January 2002 23:27, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html > > > > I would appreciate it if the vim guru's would take a look at > > it and let me kno

RE: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-10 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jesse Goerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html I would appreciate it if the vim guru's would take a look at it and let me know if I've made any errors or have any suggestions. What I really need is

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-10 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Thursday 10 January 2002 15:49, dman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:35:44PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > | I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at > | http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html > > Is this a complete rewrite of Romain's Vi Intro to be > vim-specific? Quite

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-10 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:35:44PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html > > I would appreciate it if the vim guru's would take a look at it > and let me know if I've made any errors or have any suggesti

Re: RFC: Beginner's vim tutorial

2002-01-10 Thread dman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:35:44PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: | I just wrote a beginner's vim tutorial over at | http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/text_editing/vim.html Is this a complete rewrite of Romain's Vi Intro to be vim-specific? Quite a while back I sent Romain a patch to his document to cor