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reynolds531
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 Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject: gvim context menu [solved] |
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When I call up the context menu in gvim by using the right button on my touchpad, I have to keep the button pressed or the menu disappears. Anyone know the cause? Maybe there's some synaptics setting I need to change?
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zoran
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You should make more use of the extended online help vim provides. In this case read
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reynolds531
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| zoran wrote: | You should make more use of the extended online help vim provides. In this case read
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mousemodel toggles between extend/popup, but doesn't effect the persistence of the popups (unless I'm missing something). In most programs, after right-clicking I can lift my finger from the button and the popup menu stays put. In gvim, the popup disappears when I lift my finger. (Perhaps you should read my question before answering.)
For all I know this is the way gvim works. There's a command called "popup," but I don't see any options related to persistence and in any event the manual says it's deprecated. |
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I've been wondering about that, I have been trying to giv vim a real chance and that is one of the things that is really pissing me off about that program. I would also like to know if there is a way to hide those god awful ~ symbols that appear every other blank line in vi and gvim?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| Shadow Skill wrote: | | I would also like to know if there is a way to hide those god awful ~ symbols that appear every other blank line in vi and gvim? |
They don't appear on every other blank line.
They appear on lines, which are displayed on the screen, but don't belong to the text anymore, because they are after EOF.
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well I finally managed to make them for all intents and purposes invisible [just do :highlight NonText guifg=bg] but what you said makes me wonder is there any real purpose to having twenty ~'s just to let me know that there is a line that will be ignored [in most cases at least.] by what ever program is going to use the file that I am editing?
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Cocker68
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@Shadow Skill: I'm afraid I don't get Your question right.
See it like this: vi started in a terminal window 30 lines in height with a text file containing 10 lines shows You (of course) those 10 lines and below one ~ sign for each line, which doesn't belong to the text anymore. This shows You exactly, where the actual text file ends.
With nano for example You cannot see at a glance where the file ends unless You walk with the cursor to the end until You cannot walk any further.
I cannot understand in exact which way those ~ marks can annoy You?!
Why don't You want this additional information?
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What I am saying that I don't want to see there should just be one tild underneath the last line any more than that is just pointless and quite frankly I find it distracting. [I was finally able to put my finger on why the tilds pissed me off when I woke up this morning.  ] What I would prefer if I can't have just one tild symbol is a way to bind a key to :highlight Nontext guifg=bg/fg so if I need to see where the end of a file is in a terminal I can see it and then make the symbol go away while I get back to what it was I was doing. Soon as I figure out how to bindkeys I will do just that other than this and the rightclick popup menu annoyance vim and gvim seem like what I need/want.
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| Shadow Skill wrote: | | What I would prefer if I can't have just one tild symbol is a way to bind a key to :highlight Nontext guifg=bg/fg |
This is easy - put into Your ~/.vimrc: | Code: | map <F8> :highlight NonText guifg=fg<CR>
map <S-F8> :highlight NonText guifg=bg<CR> |
so that You now may toggle those annoying tilde signs with F8 and Shift-F8.
I hope now You'll sleep better...
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Shadow Skill
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Thanks alot man this really helps, vim is pretty sweet actually I wish I had given it a real chance alot sooner.
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zoran
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| reynolds531 wrote: | mousemodel toggles between extend/popup, but doesn't effect the persistence of the popups (unless I'm missing something). In most programs, after right-clicking I can lift my finger from the button and the popup menu stays put. In gvim, the popup disappears when I lift my finger. (Perhaps you should read my question before answering.)
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You are right here. I don't really use a mouse in (g)vim. I just skimmed through the help file, found the option, read "popup" and hit reply. Sorry for the noise.
| reynolds531 wrote: | | For all I know this is the way gvim works. There's a command called "popup," but I don't see any options related to persistence and in any event the manual says it's deprecated. |
After a more thorough inspection I drew the same conclusion as you. Thats just the way it works under Unix. This is stated in :he usr_42.txt (last paragraph). A possibility to emulate something similar could be :tearoff. But I couldn't test it because my gvim didn't support it. Maybe yours does. |
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reynolds531
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| zoran wrote: | | You are right here. I don't really use a mouse in (g)vim. I just skimmed through the help file, found the option, read "popup" and hit reply. Sorry for the noise. |
No problem. Sorry if I got testy in my reply.
| reynolds531 wrote: | For all I know this is the way gvim works. There's a command called "popup," but I don't see any options related to persistence and in any event the manual says it's deprecated.
After a more thorough inspection I drew the same conclusion as you. Thats just the way it works under Unix. This is stated in :he usr_42.txt (last paragraph). A possibility to emulate something similar could be :tearoff. But I couldn't test it because my gvim didn't support it. Maybe yours does. |
I think I'll just leave it alone now that I know it's not a problem with my computer. Besides, it'll give me all the more incentive to learn the keyboard commands.
Cheers. |
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