[SLUG] VIM

[Gavin Baker]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 10:11, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> VIM in Mandrake was very nice to use, under Redhat it has a few little
> differences that I find a little annoying. Namely:
> 
> When in Insert mode, my backspace key wont work, I have to move the cursor
> to the front of the word I want to delete and use the DEL button. This only
> happens in VIM, not any other apps.

try :se backspace=2, or set backspace=2 in your ~/.vimrc (:help bs)

> Secondly (this may seem pedantic):
> 
> When I send an email composed with VIM (I use mutt), the text simply flows
> to the end of the screen and then wraps (like this message), this is okay,
> but under Mandrake it wrapped at about 80 characters along like this:
> 
> "I have to got the seat reservations today from Wetherspoons. We are going
> to 
> be sat upstairs in the no smoking section, which is just near the toilets. I
> 
> chose this area because it is usually quieter and its sectioned off a bit 
> from the main areas."
> 
> I like the way it layed it out under Mandrake better.

You can :set textwidth=<number>, and change some behaviour with :set
formatoptions=<options> (":he fo-table" to see what the flags mean).

If you want to change something thats loaded from a syntax file (like
mail), you can't just override them in your ~/.vimrc, because the syntax
file is read after it.

So if you wanted to change the textwidth of files with filetype or
syntax of mail, having

if &syntax=="mail"
    set textwidth=80
endif

in your ~/.vimrc would not work. 

:se rtp (runtimepath) shows the locations that files are read from, the
last place looked is ~/.vim/after/

So we would just put

set textwidth=80

in a file called ~/.vim/after/syntax/mail.vim

> Does someone have a sample .vimrc file they could send me from a Mandrake
> system, or any suggestions?

I've attached the mandrake one from the cooker, and a debian one.

Regards,
Gav

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""Linux-Mandrake configuration.
"Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel at mandrakesoft.com>

"Syntax highlighting only when vim-common is there
if has("mouse_gpm") && filereadable("/usr/share/vim/syntax/syntax.vim")
  syntax on
endif

"Display a status-line
set statusline=~

"I know it's horrible for a vi master but useful for newbies.
imap <C-a> <Esc>I
imap <C-e> <ESC>A
map <C-Tab> <C-W>w
imap <C-Tab> <C-O><C-W>w
cmap <C-Tab> <C-C><C-Tab>

"Some macros to manage the buffer of vim
map <F5> :bp<C-M>
map <F6> :bn<C-M>
map <F7> :bd<C-M>

"Default tab for 4
set ts=4

"Default backspace like normal
set bs=2

"Terminal for 80 char ? so vim can play till 79 char.
set textwidth=79

"Some option desactivate by default (remove the no).
set nobackup
set nohlsearch
set noincsearch


"Show the position of the cursor.
set ruler

"Show matching parenthese.
set showmatch

"" Gzip and Bzip2 files support
" Take from the Debian package and the exemple on $VIM/vim_exemples
if has("autocmd")

" Set some sensible defaults for editing C-files
augroup cprog
  " Remove all cprog autocommands
  au!

  " When starting to edit a file:
  "   For *.c and *.h files set formatting of comments and set C-indenting on.
  "   For other files switch it off.
  "   Don't change the order, it's important that the line with * comes first.
  autocmd BufRead *       set formatoptions=tcql nocindent comments&
  autocmd BufRead *.c,*.h set formatoptions=croql cindent comments=sr:/*,mb:*,el:*/,://
augroup END

" Also, support editing of gzip-compressed files. DO NOT REMOVE THIS!
" This is also used when loading the compressed helpfiles.
augroup gzip
  " Remove all gzip autocommands
  au!

  " Enable editing of gzipped files
  "	  read:	set binary mode before reading the file
  "		uncompress text in buffer after reading
  "	 write:	compress file after writing
  "	append:	uncompress file, append, compress file
  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre	*.gz set bin
  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre	*.gz let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz '[,']!gunzip
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz set nobin
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz let &ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz execute ":doautocmd BufReadPost " . %:r

  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.gz !mv <afile> <afile>:r
  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.gz !gzip <afile>:r

  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.gz !gunzip <afile>
  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.gz !mv <afile>:r <afile>
  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.gz !mv <afile> <afile>:r
  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.gz !gzip <afile>:r
augroup END

augroup bzip2
  " Remove all bzip2 autocommands
  au!

  " Enable editing of bzipped files
  "       read: set binary mode before reading the file
  "             uncompress text in buffer after reading
  "      write: compress file after writing
  "     append: uncompress file, append, compress file
  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre        *.bz2 set bin
  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre        *.bz2 let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost      *.bz2 set cmdheight=2|'[,']!bunzip2
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost      *.bz2 set cmdheight=1 nobin|execute ":doautocmd BufReadPost " . %:r
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost      *.bz2 let &ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save

  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost    *.bz2 !mv <afile> <afile>:r
  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost    *.bz2 !bzip2 <afile>:r

  autocmd FileAppendPre                 *.bz2 !bunzip2 <afile>
  autocmd FileAppendPre                 *.bz2 !mv <afile>:r <afile>
  autocmd FileAppendPost                *.bz2 !mv <afile> <afile>:r
  autocmd FileAppendPost                *.bz2 !bzip2 -9 --repetitive-best <afile>:r
augroup END

endif " has ("autocmd")

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" Configuration file for vim

" Normally we use vim-extensions. If you want true vi-compatibility
" remove change the following statements
set nocompatible	" Use Vim defaults instead of 100% vi compatibility
set backspace=indent,eol,start	" more powerful backspacing

" Now we set some defaults for the editor 
set autoindent		" always set autoindenting on
set textwidth=0		" Don't wrap words by default
set nobackup		" Don't keep a backup file
set viminfo='20,\"50	" read/write a .viminfo file, don't store more than
			" 50 lines of registers
set history=50		" keep 50 lines of command line history
set ruler		" show the cursor position all the time

" Suffixes that get lower priority when doing tab completion for filenames.
" These are files we are not likely to want to edit or read.
set suffixes=.bak,~,.swp,.o,.info,.aux,.log,.dvi,.bbl,.blg,.brf,.cb,.ind,.idx,.ilg,.inx,.out,.toc

" We know xterm-debian is a color terminal
if &term =~ "xterm-debian" || &term =~ "xterm-xfree86"
  set t_Co=16
  set t_Sf=[3%dm
  set t_Sb=[4%dm
endif

" Make p in Visual mode replace the selected text with the "" register.
vnoremap p <Esc>:let current_reg = @"<CR>gvdi<C-R>=current_reg<CR><Esc>

" Vim5 and later versions support syntax highlighting. Uncommenting the next
" line enables syntax highlighting by default.
" syntax on

" Debian uses compressed helpfiles. We must inform vim that the main
" helpfiles is compressed. Other helpfiles are stated in the tags-file.
set helpfile=$VIMRUNTIME/doc/help.txt.gz

if has("autocmd")
 " Enabled file type detection
 " Use the default filetype settings. If you also want to load indent files
 " to automatically do language-dependent indenting add 'indent' as well.
 filetype plugin on

endif " has ("autocmd")

" Some Debian-specific things
augroup filetype
  au BufRead reportbug.*		set ft=mail
  au BufRead reportbug-*		set ft=mail
augroup END

" The following are commented out as they cause vim to behave a lot
" different from regular vi. They are highly recommended though.
"set showcmd		" Show (partial) command in status line.
"set showmatch		" Show matching brackets.
"set ignorecase		" Do case insensitive matching
"set incsearch		" Incremental search
"set autowrite		" Automatically save before commands like :next and :make