im sorry guys but i have one word to say: PICO for a quick fix in a file and corel for the colors (or staroffice or maybe some other thingy like it that runs on X and sucks my memory) X) > On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Gabe Turner wrote: > > > I've messed with this a lot, and it depends on your terminal emulation. At > > work I have an RS/6000 on my desk and I can't get vim's colors to work in > > anything but AIX's crappy aixterm. If you can't get syntax highlighting to > > work in your term, try messing with your TERM variable and if that fails, > > terminfo hacking is the last resort. > > I have to use PuTTY on windows. Maybe if I change it to VT102? > > > > > > I also wish Vim was smarter about indents, like Emacs. > > > > add "set cindent" to your .vimrc. It's not just C indenting as the > > name implies. It seems to work well in perl, shell, java and such as > > well. > > Ah, but here's the kicker -- can i tab through the file like in Emacs and > have the editor fix my indents on the fly? > > > Ah, you haven't discovered vim's nifty "gq" sequence. Read up on it a > > bit. For example, I'm in vim and type an entire paragraph, yet vim > > thinks it a single line. I go to the beginning of the line and hit > > > > gqG > > > > And it breaks my single line into multiple lines and left justifies > > everything. Very nice... > > Ah, so intuitive! It sounds like Pico's "justify" command, which I love, > and 'pine' for in Emacs. heh. heh. Of course, I'm sure Emacs can do it, > but the key stroke is probably something like > M-X-G make-this-paragraph-nice-and-pretty > > Luke > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- ----------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn- linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn- linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org