From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OT] about vim plugins when necessary Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:56:18 +0000 Message-ID: <874mqheqf1.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <87a90aubdo.fsf@reader.local.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424368615 947 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2015 17:56:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:56:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harry Putnam Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 18:56:45 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YOVL9-0002GV-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:56:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57517 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOVL9-0000Xb-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:56:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOVKt-0000UY-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:56:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOVKo-0006mS-KJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:34033) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOVKo-0006mE-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail06.blacknight.ie [81.17.255.152]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5AD298889 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:56:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 11818 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2015 17:56:09 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.79.91.27]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 19 Feb 2015 17:56:09 -0000 In-Reply-To: <87a90aubdo.fsf@reader.local.lan> (message from Harry Putnam on Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:02:11 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.38 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102812 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: > Yes, I know I must be a screwball to try to post here with vim > questions, but I'm pretty sure I'm more likely to get knowledgable > answers or help here than anywhere else. > > I'm sure others here find themselves in this situation sometimes too. > > Where for whatever reason it is easier and faster to just use vim for > some coding on certain machines. Especially when you find yourself on > a wide variety of hosts. I don't know how to solve this with Vim. Have you tried using TRAMP though? Also, these days I rarely find *nix machines that don't have some version of Emacs or XEmacs installed. Are you sure it's not there? BR, Robert Thorpe