created by

Benji Fisher

script type

utility

description

This file is a collection of Vim functions I have written, many of them in response to questions posted on the vim users' list.  They are all reasonably short, so I hope they will be good examples if you are trying to learn how to write your own Vim functions.  You may even find some of the functions useful, such as the :Range command and the Mark(), Common(), Count(), GetModelines(), VarTab(), and SmartBS() functions.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
foo.vim	2.1.1	2005-11-30	6.0	Benji Fisher	improved "text object" :vmap's for i", i', a", a' (will be obsolete in vim 7) and some tweaks to the comments
foo.vim	2.1	2004-01-12	6.0	Benji Fisher	New functions: GCD():  an example of recursion RepeatString():  Generate "ababababababababab" InvertString():  by Preben "Peppe" Guldberg MyMarks():  save file positions to a file and read them FooSID():  expose the script ID so you can call script-local functions
foo.vim	2.0.3	2003-06-27	6.0	Benji Fisher	I changed :map to :imap for the VarTab() function.
foo.vim	2.0.2	2003-06-11	6.0	Benji Fisher	Oops, I uploaded the wrong file!
matchit.vim	2.0.2	2003-06-11	6.0	Benji Fisher	improvements to the EditFun command and function
foo.vim	2.0.1	2002-11-19	6.0	Benji Fisher	Oops:  make sure script variables are defined before used.
foo.vim	2.0	2002-11-15	6.0	Benji Fisher	I added a user configuration section, as discussed on the vim-dev mailing list.  With the defaults, most :imap's are not defined, so it is safer to include this in your plugin directory, if you like using any of the commands or functions it defines.  Like the rest of the file, the configuration section is meant as an example to be followed. The user should copy this section to a separate file, foo.vimrc . I also added functions to save script-local variables in the script file, so they are made persistent.
foo.vim	1.4	2002-08-06	5.7	Benji Fisher	Just a format change:  This version has unix-style line endings, and I updated the modelines to keep it that way.
foo.vim	1.4	2002-08-04	5.7	Benji Fisher	I added Common(str1, str2), which returns the initial matching part (if any) of two input strings. I also added TWIN() (The Weather Is Nice):  an example of how to prompt the user for input and add some text based on that input.
foo.vim	1.3	2002-03-31	5.7	Benji Fisher	I added the :Iabbr command, which allows you to define abbreviations like :Iabbr foo foo()<Left> that can be triggered by a space without inserting that space.  Several contributors to the vim users' list suggested improvements to this command.
foo.vim	1.2	2001-12-06	5.7	Benji Fisher	I added a table of contents, with a one-line description of the purpose and a one-line description of the techniques used by each example. I also trimmed a few of the less interesting examples and made a couple of corrections, added a few comments, etc.
foo.vim	1.1	2001-11-22	6.0	Benji Fisher	I improved the GetModelines() function. Maybe something else is new, too...
foo.vim	1.0	2001-08-28	5.7	Benji Fisher	Initial upload

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