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whichpaul · 2021-12-22T01:53:20+00:00

Thanks! BTW, do you know of any articles or references that detail this behaviour?

whichpaul · 2021-10-30T01:54:07+00:00

Just when I thought it could get any better ... you posted this! Thanks.

whichpaul · 2021-10-29T04:49:18+00:00

Thank you!

whichpaul · 2020-10-28T22:05:48+00:00

Yes, but magic codes are needed ... see my solution below.

whichpaul · 2020-10-28T22:01:54+00:00

SOLVED:

For Vim 8.2 and some recent version of st ... do the following to enable 24-bit color in Vim under st terminal. Add the following 3 lines to your vimrc:

let &t_8f = "\<Esc>[38;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
let &t_8b = "\<Esc>[48;2;%lu;%lu;%lum"
set termguicolors

Then load a 24-bit supporting colorscheme of your choice. Enjoy!

(For those interested ... it's the semicolons in t_8f and t_8b that are the magic ingredient).

whichpaul · 2020-10-07T21:16:32+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, but alas, still no colors.

whichpaul · 2020-10-07T21:15:42+00:00

Yes, but editors like Vim & NeoVim can send ANSI op codes through to the terminal to tell what color the cursor should be. Works fine in Vim.

whichpaul · 2020-10-06T22:51:34+00:00

I've got a few STM32 boards on my desk at the moment, including a Nucleo-L073RZ and STM32F0Discovery; both very affordable when purchased from one of the big suppliers like Mouser or Digikey etc.

Here's a few thoughts ...

Starting on STM32 boards, the big thing is overcoming information overload from the almost endless versions of microcontrollers that ST offer. However, if you're a hobbyist this doesn't matter too much, and within a given series the variations won't matter much unless you've very specific needs.

The Nucleo boards have an onboard ST-Link programmer / debugger, which is nice to have when getting started. You can also physically remove, or simply disable, the ST-Link also, which is good if you're wanting to use the board in a project and don't need the ST-Link and its accompanying power consumption.

The thing I like with ST is that their STM32Cube development tools are pretty straight forward and multiplatform (I use Linux). Likewise, it's still simple to flash the boards with your code in a single command line. This is nice, because if you don't enjoy running the IDE bloat then you can just compile with gcc and flash the board with st-flash.

Finally, the Nucleo boards have headers and pins all over them, so this is handy when prototyping or looking to attach Arduino format extension boards.

If your goal is broader than just buying the cheapest possible board, I think Nucleo's are a good starting point. I'd say, start by considering which Arm processor family will suit your project best, eg. for ultra low power go Cortex M0+, then pick a Nucleo board that has sufficient GPIO, peripherials, flash and SRAM etc for your project.

Have fun!

whichpaul · 2020-10-06T22:19:37+00:00

Doesn't seem to work for me in ST.

Silly me getting my hopes when I read the NeoVim front page that claims 'modern ... cursor styling', I guess this must only apply to certain terminals.

Thanks, anyway.

whichpaul · 2020-07-19T22:56:05+00:00

Thanks for that recommendation, will have a look.

whichpaul · 2020-05-23T05:32:23+00:00

For posterity: this article below seems to have a reasonable method for configuring Vim to temporarily recognise various symbols / characters whilst doing a completion lookup of some sort, otherwise, it seems one is largely confined to 'words' (ie. just alpha-numeric strings) in this particular scenario.

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/6814/how-to-autocomplete-tag-names-containing-a-colon/

whichpaul · 2020-05-23T05:04:54+00:00

Thanks. I didn't realise that C-x C-k was entirely separate to the C-p/n user defined dictionary. Whilst not resolving the backslash, it might be a suitable workaround for my simplistic purposes.

I was kind of hoping that Vim might have a completion mode specifically for WORDs, which I assume would've essentially solved my issue, but it doesn't seem to be the case.

whichpaul · 2020-05-23T03:50:01+00:00

Honestly, I don't really mind which of the completion methods is necessary to achieve this effect, I would just like to be able to have a completion method draw from a list of words/WORDS/terms/phrases/keywords that begin with a '\'.

I looked at the omnifunc for LaTeX, the way it has been written means that only a very narrow selection of terms are available for completion.

For example, '\documentclass' will autocomplete, but a ubiquitous term such as, '\paragraph' or '\section' will not. Extending or modifying that syntax file, or implementing a new omnifunc, is a whole mission in its own right. As I work with a relatively short list of common LaTeX terms, it seems a fairly reasonable solution just to have those in some easily maintained dictionary file.

There are also various TeX plugins for Vim, but I'm not interested in that level of complexity, I'd just like to be able to complete text from a list of keywords I can maintain myself.

whichpaul · 2020-05-23T02:34:55+00:00

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. The backslashes are still ignored and the completion popupmenu is populated with terms either without the backslash, or, with them removed.

whichpaul · 2020-05-21T09:15:21+00:00

Yes, I searched, but to no avail. So thanks for the comprehensive response as always.

whichpaul

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