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I recently discovered that I can use gq} instead of !}fmt to break up long paragraphs into lines. This works great.
Unfortunately, I ran into a bit of a problem. GNU fmt uses a default max line width ...
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For example, why does this work:
edit/home/foo/bar.txt
(I had to enter visual to see the changes)
I was expecting a whitespace after edit, like:
edit /home/foo/bar.txt
I couldn't find a reference in ...
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I'm using CentOS 7.5. I just did a git pull in my clone of the vim repo to the latest: last tag v8.2.2340. I'm trying to compile. No matter what I do, it will not compile for the GUI (which it's ...
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I am editing a lot of files with Vim, and I have the following in my .vimrc to help me stay oriented as to which file I am in:
" Add file name to statusline so we know where we are in the ...
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\/\*.*\(\n\s\*.*\)*\n\s\*\/ is a pattern which I cooked up to match some multi-line C comments, i.e., in the format of:
/* Comment Text
* Comment Text
* Comment Text
*/
Searching for the pattern ...
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When I have hlsearch on and my cursor is somewhere in a highlighted search match, is it possible to detect the search highlight hl-Search with synIDattr() or a similar function?
As far as I can tell ...
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What are the acceptable values for termwinkey? From VIM's documentation, it appears that any single keystroke (multi-byte or not) should be valid.
However, setting it to <D-'> (my first choice) ...
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I tried visual block, but visual block only allow to highlight or delete characters on multiple lines.
Is there any function that allows to add space before the first character of multiple lines when ...
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I have a vim's buffer and a terminal in the same vim's window but each time switch to terminal I can only exit it to go back to vim's buffer,
Is there a way to keep terminal session but be able to ...
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How to jump between matching tags (such as <div>, <span>, etc.) when editing HTML/XHTML/XML documents similarly as % is used to jump between matching parentheses?
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I've got Vim installed on MacOS using Brew and it installs with +python3 support for Python 3.7.2 by default.
I'm writing a Vim plugin which utilises some Python 3.7 and would like this to be able to ...
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Is it possible to convert tabs to spaces, while maintaining text alignment?
Simply replacing only works usefully when there are no leading characters.
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How can I figure out which key is set as my <Leader>, and how do I remap it?
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When I edit files, Vim tends to create files named .filename.swp, which I find annoying. From vim -h, I see that the -n option suppresses the creation of swap files.
Is there a vimrc directive that ...
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Pretty new to vim so this might be a basic question. I am trying to construct an abbreviation such that only part of a word gets corrected. For instance
abcPRops====gets=corrected=to===> abcProps
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