Re: [TCLUG:19757] Editors, keybindings, color, etc. (was: EmacsHTMLmode)

[Luke Francl <fran0382@tc.umn.edu>]

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