Re: [vim/vim] Please share condolence articles on Bram and his work (Discussion #12742)

2023-08-08 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
I wrote a post about Bram at my blog: https://www.georgevreilly.com/blog/2023/08/07/BramMoolenaarRIP.html On Monday, August 7, 2023 at 3:00:04 PM UTC-7 Yegappan Lakshmanan wrote: Some more articles: https://thenewstack.io/bram-moolenaar-author-of-the-open-source-vim-code-editor-has-died/ https:

Re: Moving away from SourceForge

2018-02-16 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
you can't. Vim.org is a PHP-based website, but is it actually using any server-side code? If it's static HTML, then GitHub Pages is quite satisfactory. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly *www.GeorgeVReilly.com <http://www.georgevreilly.com/>* -- -- You

Re: Vim 7.5 or Vim 8?

2016-04-04 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Christian J. Robinson wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > I have been wondering if the next release should be called 7.5 or 8. >> > > I'm inclined to think it should be version 8. ​+0.6​ -- /George V. Reilly

Re: Feature Request: Formal support for Ligatures.

2015-09-05 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
m/wiki/Working_with_Unicode > etc. ​Several monospace fonts have recently grown support for programmer-related ligatures, such as https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig and https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode. BTW, there's a great list of monospaced fonts at https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface

Re: Vim development process is utterly broken (Was: Re: [patch] test98 stops when using gvim)

2013-07-15 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
ll Requests [1], though I haven't worked with them. Google Code does not [2]. 1: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Work+with+pull+requests 2: https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=4753 -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.ge

Re: [patch] windows font antialiasing styles

2013-03-18 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
Let's not make life any harder for semi-modern versions of Windows at the expense of versions that have been obsolete for a decade. XP still has approximately one-third market share. Anything before that is lost in the noise. Anyone obdurate enough to run NT4 or Win2K can settle for Vim 7.3

Re: 64-bit support for Windows (Vista)

2012-08-27 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
es at http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/downloads/list that will help in building a native Win64 build of Vim. I don't use Windows much anymore and when I do, I run the Win32 binaries by default on Win64, for the reasons elucidated at http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/ -- /George V. Rei

Re: vimgrep and Vim's connection with google

2012-05-13 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
eve Yegge of Google talked at the Northwest C++ Users' Group about an indexing tool like you describe. Unfortunately, it was intended for Google's internal codebase. There were vague noises about making it more widely available, but I haven't heard anything more. http://www.nwcp

Re: Patch 7.3.443

2012-02-17 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
hg.python.org/cpython/file/b8593ec7e8c5/Lib/subprocess.py -- /George V. Reilly  geo...@reilly.org  Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog  http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below t

Re: Proposal for adding binary AND and OR operators

2011-12-08 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
ing bitwise operators, you also need left shift (#<<), signed right shift (#>>), and unsigned right shift (#>>>), per http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op3.html. Without the shifts, constructing masks and isolating groups of bits is hard. -

Re: New syntax file for shell scripts

2011-05-24 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
ighlighting, it just yanks 'build_number' -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are

dosinst.c patch: write to non-redirected registry

2010-06-23 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
alled. This patch uses KEY_WOW64_64KEY to write to the native, non-redirected registry. It should do the right thing, whether install.exe is 32-bit or 64-bit, regardless of whether it's run on Win32 or Win64. -- /George V. Reilly  geo...@reilly.org  Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreill

Re: suggest: Ruby 1.9 in VIM 7.3 by default

2010-06-09 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
Unlike Ruby 1.8, it simply wasn't possible with the MSVC compiler, because 1.9 came with include files and libs for MinGW only. Vim can be built with either MSVC or MinGW, but the official Windows builds have always been built with MSVC. It'd certainly be nice to have Ruby 1.9 be the def

Re: "flexwiki" ftplugin causing problems ('bomb')

2010-05-02 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
w.flexwiki.com site was not available, thus > I could not check any specification there. I haven't used Flexwiki in 3 years, so I forget the details of why 'bomb' was needed. I think Flexwiki is dead or nearly so. It seems like mapping .wiki files to wikipedia (MediaWiki?) rat

Re: Windows 7 64bit - use 32bit or 64bit Vim?

2010-04-26 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
e with the MSVC compiler. I've never tried to get a 64-bit version of Perl running with Win64 Vim. I think a better solution would be a smarter Windows installer for Vim which included Win32 and Win64 copies of gvimext.dll and a Win32 gvim.exe, that installed the appropriate flavor of the shell

Re: VS 2010 RC1 patch

2010-02-26 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
I almost forgot. Test69 breaks for me with both the Win32 and Win64 builds: nmake -f Make_dos.mak test69.out I've attached test69.ok (dosified) and test69.out. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech

VS 2010 RC1 patch

2010-02-26 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
The attached patch makes Vim 72.376 build cleanly with the RC1 build of Visual Studio 2010, targeting Win32 and Win64. Updated binaries can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/vim-win3264/ -- /George V. Reilly  geo...@reilly.org  Twitter: @georgevreilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog

patch for make_mvc.mak for vs2010

2009-05-22 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
Make_mvc.mak needs to be patched for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 too. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist

patch for high-dpi awareness

2009-05-22 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
Patch to make Windows Gvim high-DPI aware, per an email thread several weeks ago. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" mai

patch for VS2010 Beta 1

2009-05-22 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
A one-line patch to make Vim build cleanly with Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010. -- /George V. Reilly geo...@reilly.org http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" mai

Re: doc suggestion

2009-04-06 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Spencer Collyer wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:38:18 +0200, Tony Mechelynck wrote: >> >> On 05/04/09 04:33, George V. Reilly wrote: >> > >> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Tony Mechelynck >> > wrote: >>

Re: doc suggestion

2009-04-04 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
of Vim or really old operating systems. Their numbers are dwindling and supporting them has real costs in terms of testing and code complexity. Look at the horrendous amounts of conditional code in the C source. If they don't want to upgrade (or can't), they'll have to accept li

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-02 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ron Aaron wrote: > On Apr 2, 9:57 am, "George V. Reilly" wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Ron Aaron wrote: >> > It would also be "really nice" to allow a per-window font. That is, >> > make 'gf

Re: Font handling issues/suggestions/bugs

2009-04-01 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
the two grids? On a related note, it would be nice if it were possible to supply a set of alternatives to guifont, as in CSS. GVim would work its way down the list until it found one that was present on the system; e.g., :set guifont=Consolas:h12,Monaco:h12,Andale_Mono:h13,Lucida_Cons

Re: syntax highlighting memory corruption

2009-03-24 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On 24/03/09 18:23, George V. Reilly wrote: >> >> I have a reproable crash, apparently due to syntax highlighting memory >> corruption. >> >> The stack traces below were taken with WinDbg whi

syntax highlighting memory corruption

2009-03-24 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
may be wrong. 0012ff94 7714e4b6 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x12 0012ffd4 7714e489 ntdll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x63 0012ffec ntdll!RtlInitializeExceptionChain+0x36 I don't have time to look into this further today. -- /George V. Reilly  geo...@reilly.org http://www.

Re: gvim crashes handling WM_OLE message with Ultramon's buttons turned on

2009-01-19 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
CVim::SendKeys() */ > ! } >return; > } > #endif The patch looks good, though Ray's suggestion of RegisterWindowMessage might be safer. I'd argue, however, that the fault really lies with Ultramon. It's supposed to unobtrusively hook into other proce

Re: Building on Vista x64

2008-12-10 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
flushslist > > Now, the interesting bit. If I use Visual Studio 2008 Express with the > SDK addon to build a 64-bit version of gvim, I don't get any errors on > if_ole.h and I get a working copy of gvim.exe. > > Has anyone else tried this? > Trying the mingw-x64 build has

Re: sort()'s function reference arg

2008-08-25 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
at on all systems? More specifically, qsort expects a signed int. If MyCompare returns 1E37 - 1E20, it's probably not going to have a happy ending. -- /George V. Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: out of memory bug on win32 platforms

2008-08-23 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
;& !defined(_WIN64) case? Better, I think, to return (long_u) min(0xFF00, msex.ullAvailPhys + msex.ullAvailPageFile). Or for Bram to widen this signature to a 64-bit int for all platforms. Linux and Mac boxes with >4GiB are going to be common soon. -- /George V. R

Patch: clean up MSVC warnings

2008-07-16 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
et_fmode is not defined in VC2003 -- though I could have sworn it was. It seems to have been introduced in VC2005. I guess you don't build the debug binaries often. I've checked the patch with VS98, VS2003, VC 2003 Toolkit, VS2005, and VS2008 (x86 and x64). VS98 knows nothing about /Wp6

Re: :helpgrep crash

2008-07-14 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
2008/7/14 Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > George V. Reilly wrote: > > I believe I have it this time. ex_helpgrep is setting p_cpo = > > (char_u*)"", then that's being free'd as a side-effect of an autocmd > > doing "set cpo&vim&qu

Re: :helpgrep crash

2008-07-14 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
2008/7/14 Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > George V. Reilly wrote: > >> >> An autocmd, selectbuf#BufNew, is calling set cpo&vim. Vim is freeing >> >> invalid memory for the old value from did_set_string_option. The >> >> previous val

Re: :helpgrep crash

2008-07-14 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
2008/7/9 Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > George V. Reilly wrote: > >> An autocmd, selectbuf#BufNew, is calling set cpo&vim. Vim is freeing >> invalid memory for the old value from did_set_string_option. The >> previous value was (probably) set

Re: 64-bit support for Windows (Vista)

2008-07-11 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
${VIMSRC}\xxd.exe -> ${VIMSRC}\xxd\xxd.exe > ${VIMRT}\README.txt -> ..\README.txt > etc. > > Eventually, I gave up. Is there something I should have done > differently to make it Just Work(tm)? > I ran into the same problems when I tried many months ago. Bram says that it's a

Re: 64-bit support for Windows (Vista)

2008-07-11 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
n Win64. 2. After I've built vim, which files do I need? There are several EXEs > and DLLs produced in a couple different subdirectories of src/, but > the INSTALL* documentation files don't explain what to do with them in > the absence of UNIX-style "make install". For e

:helpgrep crash

2008-07-09 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
An autocmd, selectbuf#BufNew, is calling set cpo&vim. Vim is freeing invalid memory for the old value from did_set_string_option. The previous value was (probably) set by vim72a\menu.vim. I think get_varp_scope() is at fault. /George -- Forwarded message -- From: Geor

Re: 64-bit support for Windows (Vista)

2008-07-09 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
ve not yet looked into trying to make the NSIS installer work with the Win64 binaries. I'm attaching a small patch that fixes all build warnings with the VC8 and VC9 x64 compilers. Note: ":helpgrep libintl" crashes for me when I build with VC9, but not VC8. I have not

Re: Improvements to "libcall" etc.

2008-07-06 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
ertainly how I'd do it in Windows. I don't know enough about SO's under Linux/Mac. > It may be reasonable to have a limited number of callbacks available, though > that would be an unfortunate restriction. Any ideas on this? > Oh, one last thing. in the callback example ment

Re: Vim version 7.2a ready for BETA testing

2008-06-26 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
Getting them from a previous version might help. Or using > empty files. > > Anyway, it would be very helpful to find out how to build a gvim.exe > that runs on Windows 98 using VC 2008. Which version of make do you build this Makefile with? Cygwin? Something else? -- /George V. Reilly

Re: git for vim was: Re: Vim 7.2a in CVS

2008-06-26 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
FTP, CVS, and SVN repositories is ... unsatisfying. -- /George V. Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: Vim version 7.2a ready for BETA testing

2008-06-25 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
tried to build a Vim installer several months ago and gave up in complete frustration. My guess was that you had some additional build scripts which weren't in the SVN archive. -- /George V. Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

Re: Updated floating point patch

2008-06-11 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html. I should re-read it myself; it's been years. -- /George V. Reilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog http://blogs.cozi.com/tech --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the &qu

Re: Google Summer of Code Idea, VIM live, update as you type, preview of HTML

2008-03-28 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
> This would be of great benefit to all web developers using > > VIM. > > to me this sounds very interesting, and very useful > This is the first GSoC proposal that I've seen float past that really made me perk up, probably because I've been doing a lot of complex web develop

Re: Patch 7.1.262

2008-02-20 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On 20/02/2008, Richard Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:21 AM, George V. Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > The same caveats apply on Windows, which wasn't clear in Bram's help > text. > > > I a

Re: Patch 7.1.262

2008-02-20 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
xactly. So if you were to create a permanent save file of whatever based > on > that number, you could lose data. Granted that it's unlikely, but > clarification > in the help file can't hurt. The same caveats apply on Windows, which wasn't clear in Bram's help text

Re: syntax: reusing nested expressions

2008-02-03 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On 02/02/2008, George V. Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to write some syntax highlighting for PBwiki, and I'd like to > reuse some complex regexps. Here are some concrete examples: > http://pbwiki.com -and- > [http://pbwiki.com/|PBw

Re: syntax: reusing nested expressions

2008-02-03 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
let + execute. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks /G On 03/02/2008, Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Feb 3, 7:04 am, "George V. Reilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to write some syntax highlighting for PBwiki, and I&

syntax: reusing nested expressions

2008-02-02 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
x match pbwikiLink [EMAIL PROTECTED],4}` syntax match pbwikiLink [EMAIL PROTECTED],4}|[^]].\{-}\]` How do I reuse the URL regexp and the email regexp inside the [|]? -- /George V. Reilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

Re: VIM and NTFS streams

2008-02-01 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
your system. Most notably: > > 12.12.2007 14:03 1'670 _H_A_ .vimrc > 0 > {4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA > Every NTFS file is implemented as one or more streams, and the default stream is called $DATA. It's a b

Re: Patch to fix VC8 compiler warnings

2008-01-16 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On 16/01/2008, George V. Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/01/2008, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Catching up from the weekend patches I had two warnings for my builds. > > The attached patch fixes them - done against 7.1

Re: New features to vote on and sponsoring

2008-01-15 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
o. I'm not saying that it can't be done, but it moves the Vim codebase in a direction that it's never gone before. Is there some existing open source project that can be leveraged to solve a lot of these problems? Or some Google project? -- /George V. Reilly http://www.georgev

Re: Patch to fix VC8 compiler warnings

2008-01-15 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
On 15/01/2008, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/01/2008 21:43, George V. Reilly wrote: > > On 14/01/2008, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Mike Williams wrote: > >> > >>> Catching up from the weekend

Re: Patch to fix VC8 compiler warnings

2008-01-14 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
g if LONGLONG is always defined when WIN3264 is defined. We > don't use LONGLONG yet anywhere. LONGLONG should be defined in all recent versions of the compiler and SDK. Always as a 64-bit signed quantity. Recent = last six years or so.

Python unit tests

2007-10-30 Fir de Conversatie George V. Reilly
more compilers before I'm happy with it. -- /George V. Reilly http://www.georgevreilly.com/blog --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---