Re: [vile] comment leaders and reformatting

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, address@hidden wrote:

> Thomas,
>
> Excellent, thank you for the reply.
>
> I'm not always diligent about ';#', some of my comments begin with just '#' so
> I ended up with this:
>
> comment-prefix='^\s*;\?# '
>
> Also note I was unable to use the 'set' command as you've specified below, it
> did work without the 'set' command however.  I assume when defining options
> for submodes the 'set' command is unnecessary?

yes (sorry about that).  The name=value stuff is parsed the same, but
there's no "set" keyword there.

> I tend to struggle with what requires escaping in vi-style regular expressions.
> At first I tried this '^\s*;?#'.  Is there a definitive list or a set of rules
> that govern what should and should not be escaped?

I usually refer to the "Regular Expressions" section in the help-file 
(vile.hlp).  Also, for debugging long patterns, I find it useful to turn 
visual-matches to reverse, and just try searching with a given pattern:

set visual-matches=reverse
set nooverlap-matches


> Ahhh yes, I use screen all the time as well. Have you found a convenient
> replacement for ^a?  Right now I'm being lazy and using '^a a'.

no - the keystrokes get complicated.  I generally mark a line and format 
from the :-line (or if I'm doing something repetitive, I bind 'K' to 
whatever's useful at the moment).  The other people using vile tend to use 
the fancier key-bindings...

> Thanks for the assistance and for maintaining the vile editor.
>
> Wayne
>
> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:25:01PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm a recent vim convert and I have few lingering issues before I'm a full
> > > convert.  When working with TCL files I prefer my comment lines to look
> > > like
> > > this.
> > >
> > >         ;# comment line 1
> > >         ;# comment line 2
> > >         ;# comment line 3
> > >         ;# comment line 4
> > >
> > > In vim if I were to edit one of the comment lines and make it a very long
> > > line
> > > I could use the gq} command to reformat my comments.  This in combination
> > > with
> > > the 'comments' setting will reformant the block of comments inserting the
> > > ';#'
> > > sequence at the beginning of each line.
> >
> > Two parts -
> >
> > a) settings
> >
> > vile uses the comment-prefix pattern, which for this case would be set
> > something like (in your .vilerc file):
> >
> > ~with define-submode tcl
> > set comment-prefix='^\s*;# '
> > ~endwith
> >
> > That's the same as
> >
> > define-submode tbl set comment-prefix='^\s*;# '
> >
> > b) reformatting
> >
> > That gq} looks like vile's
> >
> >         format-til next-paragraph
> >
> > "format-til" is normally bound to ^A-f (control/A, f) and ^A-j.
> > With those bindings, you could do the analogous ^A, f, }.
> >
> > Something like that (I'm usually using screen, which owns ^A...)
> >
> > --
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