From: Guest, Ken (kengu at domain credo.ie)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 17:30:35 IST
More vi[m] stuff tomorrow, after I've finished that tutorial.
#-----Original Message-----
#From: Caolan McNamara [mailto:cmc at domain stardivision.de]
#Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 17:26
#To: ilug at domain linux.ie
#Subject: [ILUG] [rancidly off topic] you are too long programming
#when...
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#you attempt to convert imperial measurements to metric by converting
#them to hex.
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#err... ob on topic: Word 97 has a cool bug in the metric version where
#the sizes of a graphic are always 250% percent incorrect. Took ages
#to realize that it was drawing correctly but incorrectly converting
#from imperial to metric twice for displaying the size.
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#hell thats not on topic for ilug. Am <wipes sweating brow> how about
#some vim tricks...
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#I found out recently that you can select columns of text in vim by
#using ctrl-v rather than the wellknown v for visual selection. Along
#with V for full lines.
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#And while I'm at it, the spiffy show tabs and end of line stuff
#:set listchars=tab:>.,eol:$
#:set list
#where
#listchars=tab:xy,eol:z,trail:p
#sets xy to the chars to display tab with and z as the end of line char
#and p as the char to show spaces at the end of a line, various
#combinations are handy for finding those otherwise invisible ending
#spaces which drives macros and the like into a frenzy of confusion. And
#makefile rules which are prefixed with spaces instead of tabs like they
#look. (FWIW real vi has set list as well)
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#C.
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