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I work with many terminals, and very often hit the case where:
a vim instance holds ~/sm/file
I open another instance on the same file.
My choice is always :(E)dit without prompting ...
So I'd ...
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After :term ++curwin zsh, I use that buffer as an alternative of tmux window.
But there is one caveat, if I cd in zsh, vim will not know.
Which cause problem in below case
In terminal normal mode, ...
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I can't remember start from when and why, i always add ! to function and command:
function! ..
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endfunction
command! ...
But :h E122 says:
When a function by this name already ...
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I posted this question on stackoverflow already, but realized afterwards that it's probably better to ask here.
So I have a function of the following form:
function! s:my_function(dict_arg)
let ...
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I'm trying to understand logic of text-object-selection in the presence of double qoutes. In the following lines * denotes cursor position, // denotes my comments.
a"b(c*d)e"f //di) deletes ...
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In my $VIMRC I have:
nnoremap <leader>A :set formatoptions+=a<cr>
nnoremap <leader>a :set formatoptions-=a<cr>
What I'm wondering is if there's something more like:
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In normal usage :%s/A/B/g is a simple way to substitute a pattern across the entire buffer. However the command mode implementation of :substitute is subject to many user configurable variables and as ...
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Quite often I am working with files that are version controlled, so it is possible for changes to be made to them outside of Vim.
What is a quick way to reload the file without having to close and ...
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I'd like to open a file from another branch in the current git repository. I have seen this SO question, but the suggestions for combining it with Vim are cumbersome (pipe to Vim, open stdin, set ...
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There seems to be two ways to store preferences specific to gvim:
Keep an .vimrc file for vim and a .gvimrc file for gvim specific additions.
Keep all settings in .vimrc and wrap gvim specific ...
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I see one of these two lines in .vimrc files. This one seems to be most common:
filetype plugin indent on
But how does it differ from this line:
filetype indent on
I've found documentation for ...
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I'm starting to use Vim and I chose Vundle instead of Pathogen.
I would like to know if I can install the NERDTree using Vundle.
I'm starting Vim and searching for NERDTree like this:
:BundleSearch ...
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Say the following is the current structure of my window:
+-----+----------------------------
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The order of A and B is not quite natural. It would be ...
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I use vim as my primary editor.
I would also like to use vim to diff files and modify the files while doing the diff to fix easy changes (rather than most diff techniques which are a cycle of ...
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I use :copy a fair bit. So like range :12,15 copy 20 will paste a block of text from 12 to 15 lines at 20th line. But when I want to paste a line at multiple places it doesn't work. For example :24 ...
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I using konsole terminal emulator and I am facing some issue with changing the font size in vim.
If I add the following snippet into my .vimrc. In the vim application, the font size will snap back to ...
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I am implementing a smooth scrolling function for <C-u> and <C-d>, which just sleeps for a few milliseconds and then moves the screen up (<C-y>) or down (<C-e>) one line:
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