[SLUG] VIM

[Jamie]

Worked a treat, thanks :)

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:06:36PM +0100, Adams, Jamie wrote:
> Thats great thanks, I will have a play when I get home tonight. 
> 
> Its a bit sad when little things like this bug you. lol
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Gavin Baker[SMTP:gavbaker at ntlworld.com]
> > Reply To: 	scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Sent: 	28 August 2002 11:40
> > To: 	scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: 	Re: [SLUG] VIM
> > 
> > <<File: Mandrake-Cooker-vimrc.txt>><<File: Sid-vimrc.txt>>
> > 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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