October 2010 - implementations-list

[implementations-list] issue with viper-escape-to-emacs
by Fabian Braennstroem 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hello, with the new vimpulse, I have a problem escaping back to emacs mode. I need this option to run some traditional 'M-x' functions. Up to now I used: (define-key viper-vi-global-user-map (kbd "\\\\") 'viper-escape-to-emacs) Unfortunately, this does not work anymore, as using M(Esc) for the next command cancels this escape and inserts the second of the backslash into the buffer... Would be nice, if you have a hint! Regards! Fabian

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Self-introduction of a new vimpulse user
by Christoph LANGE 10 Nov '10

10 Nov '10

Hi all, let me introduce myself as a new user of vimpulse. I have been using it for around two weeks or so and studied most of the list archives, as I was eager to learn as much as possible. My background: I'm an experienced user of both Emacs and vim; I used to use Emacs for large files (e.g. large LaTeX documents) and tracking my working hours with org-mode (still need to learn more about the other features of org-mode), and vim for small files (e.g. configuration files). Vimpulse now enables me to combine vi's healthy key bindings with Emacs's rich functionality. I also know some Emacs Lisp (unfortunately not yet enough for actively contributing to vimpulse), whereas I have never really customized vim. For the record: I hardly know more about git than "clone" and "pull", but I think it's worth running vimpulse from the git sources – which I do. I have bound the tab key to viper-intercept-ESC-key and appreciate that it is so easy now, with vmap and imap. I have vimpulse-surround and viper-in-more-modes installed. Eventually I will also give vim-mode a try, but so far I'm quite busy and vimpulse works well. A few more mails with bug reports and feature requests will follow within the next days. Cheers, thanks for vimpulse, and keep the good work up, Christoph PS: This mail was sent from KMail (KDE), where I had been using gvim as an external editor for composing mails so far. But now I have switched that to Emacs+vimpulse, using post-mode (and some abbrevs), which boosted my productivity in writing mails. -- Christoph Lange, http://kwarc.info/clange/, Skype duke4701

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vimpulse bug report: C-v I not repeatable with .
by Christoph LANGE 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Dear vimpulse developers, another true vimpulse bug – but maybe one that is harder to fix… I frequently find myself indenting a few lines with C-v <select an empty rectangle with cursor-down> I <some character>, e.g. when quoting something in a mail, or when commenting code. Yes, I know that there are smarter ways to do that in Emacs. It's an old behavior learned from vim, which does not have functions such as comment-dwim, or at least I didn't know them. Anyway, such commands are not repeatable with ".". In vim that would work. E.g. I could comment two lines, then move to some other lines and simply comment them by hitting ".". Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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vimpulse feature request: gJ
by Christoph LANGE 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Dear vimpulse developers, here is one minor feature that I'm missing (description copied from the vim help): > gJ > gJ Join [count] lines, with a minimum of two lines. > Don't insert or remove any spaces. {not in Vi} > > v_gJ > {Visual}gJ Join the highlighted lines, with a minimum of two > lines. Don't insert or remove any spaces. {not in > Vi} I would be most grateful if you could eventually implement that. BTW, is this the right way to report bugs? I am also familiar with Trac (are you still using the Trac at assembla?), but IIUC it's preferred to report bugs by e-mail, whereas the Trac is only open to developers. Cheers, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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vim-mode "bug": vim complains when opening vim-mode source files
by Christoph LANGE 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Dear vim-mode developer(s?), hi Frank, finally a less serious "bug" report about vim-mode, which I have not yet properly tried. (I will!) Forgive me, but I wanted to have a look into vim-mode's source files – with vim. But vim interpreted all those "vim:"-prefixed identifiers as modelines and got confused. Well, it reported some errors and then let me view the files. Not really a bug, but I thought I should let you know. Maybe you could insert some comment lines at the top and bottom of these files, i.e. there, where vim usually searches for modelines. Cheers, and thanks, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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vimpulse bug: VIPER's #q doesn't work and can't be bound
by Christoph LANGE 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Dear vimpulse developers, another less serious bug report: when trying to figure out how to comment/quote/indent things (now I know that my favorite e-mail composing mode post-mode can quote with C-c C-q ;-) ) I tried to use VIPER's #q: `# q' Insert specified string at the beginning of each line in the region (`viper-quote-region'). The default string is composed of the comment character(s) appropriate for the current major mode. As vimpulse supports # like vim (which I appreciate BTW), #q doesn't work. But, unfortunately, due to the strange way it's implemented, there is no easy way either to bind it to different keys. Do you have any idea about how such VIPER commands could be revived in vimpulse? Cheers, and thanks in advance, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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viper bug report: viper-forward-char does not unfold folded text
by Christoph LANGE 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Hi all, here is now a bug report about VIPER. Not sure how to deal with that: AFAIK Michael Kifer is not reading this list, but OTOH I'm not aware of any proper way of reporting bugs with VIPER. So maybe some of you also know how to fix this. In AUCTeX I'm using TeX-fold-mode, which folds certain (La)TeX constructs. Once I move the cursor into them, they are temporarily unfolded. OK, but not when moving the cursor with hjkl. For example, viper-forward-char does not unfold such test, whereas forward-char does. Is there anything that could be done about that? Cheers, and thanks in advance for any help, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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vimpulse feature request: make Štěpán's "go" and "ga" part of vimpulse
by Christoph LANGE 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Dear vimpulse developers, in my .emacs I have the following lines, which Štěpán has once contributed to this list: (vimpulse-map "ga" 'what-cursor-position) (vimpulse-map "go" 'goto-char) These key bindings also exist in vim; therefore I'd suggest to make them part of vimpulse. Cheers, and thanks in advance, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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vimpulse feature request: markers ., [, and ]
by Christoph LANGE 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Dear vimpulse developers, another feature request: In vim I frequently use the following markers (copied from the vim help): '[ `[ '[ `[ To the first character of the previously changed or yanked text. {not in Vi} '] `] '] `] To the last character of the previously changed or yanked text. {not in Vi} '. `. '. `. To the position where the last change was made. The position is at or near where the change started. Sometimes a command is executed as several changes, then the position can be near the end of what the command changed. For example when inserting a word, the position will be on the last character. {not in Vi} And there are a few more of that kind, listed in motion.txt, but I haven't used them so far. The following lines make me miss `. a little bit less, but still it would be good to have: (require 'goto-chg) (vimpulse-map "g;" 'goto-last-change) (vimpulse-map "g," 'goto-last-change-reverse) Cheers, and thanks in advance, Christoph -- Christoph Lange, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Langec, Skype duke4701

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