<span class="gmail_quote">On 6/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damian Conway</b> <<a href="mailto:damian@conway.org">damian@conway.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><div>[...]<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm certain O'Reilly will happily refund your money, if you prefer not to take<br>the class now that I'm not teaching it. If you decide on that course and<br>experience any difficulties, please don't hesitate to contact me directly and
<br>I'll do my best to help sort it out.<br></blockquote></div>[...]<br><br>Thank you, I sincerely appreciate that.<br><br>My Vim devotion appears to have superseded my angst from missing my favorite speaker. I was able to contact Steve and he wrote me back with some useful information, and I've subsequently decided to attend the tutorial after all. At the risk of spiraling even further off-topic, I will provide my correspondence with him.
<br><br>My query (not verbatim):<br>------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------<br>I've used <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Vim</span> for many years and I look forward to the tutorial. Do you have an outline to share? I couldn't find one on the OSCON Web site. I'd like to study up on whatever you'll be presenting so I can get the most out of your tutorial.
<br><br>What should I be able to do when I leave the tutorial? I'm familiar with all the basic <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Vim</span> commands and I hope to become a better <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Vim
</span>script writer. And I want to be challenged. I appreciated your <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Vim </span>Cookbook, but I am quite fluent with the concepts presented there and would love to go a little deeper with
<span id="st" name="st" class="st">Vim</span>. Could you tell me if your tutorial will be more <span id="st" name="st" class="st">advanced</span> than your <span id="st" name="st" class="st">Vim</span> Cookbook?<br>------------------------------------------>8------------------------------------------
<br><br>His answer (not verbatim):<br>------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------<br>1. Programming the syntax engine<br>2. Basic Function Writing<br>3. Hooking your Function into Vim (This is actually more complex than you might think)
<br>4. Debugging scripts.<br>5. Working with syntax coloring and scripts.<br>6. Adding perl scripts to vim.<br>7. Advanced features.<br clear="all">------------------------------------------>8------------------------------------------
<br><br>-- <br>Adam Monsen