dcabe replacement?

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>

> I never could get the vim syntax highlighting working the way I really
> wanted. What I REALLY wanted was to make a greenbar effect (not really
> green most likely) where one physical line from a filepro file would
> DISPLAY as 2 lines on the screen, with the greenbar effect to help keep
> the If: & Then: lines visually paired so you could see each pair as a
> single unit at a glance.

For the record: Icky *poo*.

I have *enough* trouble getting enough code on the screen to read; why
the h-e-double-hockeysticks do you think I'm working in vi? :-)

> I apologize for any crappiness encountered trying to use those vim
> config because I only worked on them for a little while probably 10
> years ago and never touched them again. I don't use them myself!

Well, they seem to be working ok here.

> Though I still would like to. If I could figure out how to manipulate
> the vim display and line counting syntax exotically enough so that vim
> would actually know which line a cursor or bit of displayed text was
> really on, despite the discrepancy between file lines vs display lines,
> I would love to use vim to edit prc tables. It would even be worth
> picking up Bob Stocklers macros for saving, syntax-checking, and
> tokenizing prc tables from inside vim.

Gee... where are those?  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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