Thursday, September 9, 2010

Re: convenient settings for /etc/motd etc. that has multi-character color codes

On Thursday 09 September 2010 16:47:31 Rahul wrote:

> On Sep 9, 3:43 pm, sc <tooth...@swbell.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 September 2010 15:06:39 Rahul wrote:
> > you need at least a big build to have conceal, normal won't
> > include it -- look at the output of
> >
> > :ver

> Thanks! I did a "huge" build now. Have a +conceal and a
> +syntax. Still can't use AnsiEsc successfully though.

> I downloaded the AnsiEsc.vba.gz and vimed it and did a ":so %"
> as instructed. It did extract a bunch of files to my ~/.vim
> folder. (I'm a little perplexed as to why these files have
> strange names : AnsiEsc.vim?[[[1 AnsiEscPlugin.vim?[[[1 Seems
> like some strange control character is appended to the
> filenames created by the vimball archive )

> After this I tried opening a regular motd file. But no success
> at getting things to fold etc. Tried :help VimEsc but doesn't
> work either.

> Suggestions?

the first thing i'd try is renaming those files so they end
with .vim -- restart vim and see if you can't use it now

you're right to wonder why they have funny endings -- did you
gunzip the vba.gz before vimming it? can you edit the new
AnsiEsc modules with no tricks and they look ok?

sc

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