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Is it possible to use Ctrl-P to search for directories in addition to searching for files? I want to be able to search for directories in my project in whatever mode (CtrlP, CtrlPMRU, or other) and ...

I have two lines in the command area. How to make a single line?

I installed coc.vim and I am using it along ccls.It works well ,except that I get weird warnings for some parts of my code. Here is my .ccls file: clang -isystem /usr/local/include -isystem /...

Well, the question is clear. I want to search only on text that is not inside \[ \] or $ $ . Is there some readymade code to do so? Thanks.

When using the vimwiki plugin, when you want to convert any text into a link you can press enter on the selection. Then you follow the link, create the file and work with it. The problem: When you ...

I use in my vimrc the following option: set viminfo+=% This allows vim to open the last edited files if you don't pass any arguments to vim. Is there a way to ignore some files? I want to disable ...

There are times I want to comment List items: let test_data = [ \ " description in comment \ complicated_data0 \ \ " description in comment \ complicated_data1 ... ...

I just learned about the shortcuts that allow you to manipulate ranges, e.g. :+5,+10co. to copy after the current line. I wondered if there is a way to copy and move at the start of the current line? ...

I am new to vim and tmux. TL;DR I want to have tmux set up so that I have a pane for my (python) code and a pane for the output of the code. What I know Now, from vim I can do a command like :!...

Suppose caret is on the line 10 and I've recorded macros @d. I need to replay macros until line 25. If I know that macros move caret one line per execution, I can calculate that it should be executed ...

I'm configuring a terminal buffer and now I have the following problem. I have only one terminal buffer and I need to make it active by its number to avoid lots of CTRL-w j/k/l clicks. Here is what ...

Hi I'm a new vim user (1 week), I just switched my color scheme to monokai, however a point let me dissatisfied, c++ namespaces are not highlighted. I tried : hi namespace guifg=[my color] and hi ...

Is it possible to configure vi to use a different location, say my home directory, for the uncompressed help files (or maybe to open them in RO if that's the problem)? When attempting to open a help ...

I know that I can run a search in vim using /. I prefer having search highlighting turned on, but if I have a two splits with different files open, and I search for a term in one, they get highlighted ...

I'm currently using pear-tree as an automatic brackets closing plugin. So when I type, for example: print( I get print(|) The functionality I'm looking for is to get the cursor out of the brackets ...

How can I scroll and hide a floating window in Vim using the coc.nvim plugin? I added these mappings to my vim.rc file but I still cannot manage it. I would expect if I press ctrl+f once I have a ...

I'm trying to make a small extension/bug fix to a plugin I rely on (referenced as Plugin in the code snips), therefore I'm constrained by its existing API. I've got the functionality I want somewhat ...

Much like this question, I've failed to put this together successfully on my own. I want to truncate lines in my file so that no line is over 100 characters in length. I can go to position 100 on ...

I'm trying to re-map tagbar toggling with <C-&> that I get used to when working with IDEs. But setting execute "nnoremap <C-&> :TagbarToggle<CR>" does not have the ...

I use airline's tabline to show a list of my current buffers: Plug 'vim-airline/vim-airline' let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1 " Use the airline tabline (replacement for buftabline) let g:...

I have never used :h :command-register and :h <reg> , trying to find an example, but failed to grep \-register from my installed plugins, The built in :h :delete support a count and an optional ...

One of my filetypes has a special comment format that has a background color, and it would be useful if I could extend the highlighting to extend that background to the terminal width, rather than ...

I am relatively new to vim and tried to understand this article and also read :help guicursor and inserted this line in my .vimrc set guicursor+=a:-blinkwait175-blinkoff150-blinkon175 But it didn't ...

I want to make use of Shift+Tab to left-shift (unindent) a block of text, instead of Ctrl+d. How to do it?

I know how to make an abbreviation to a command in vim. For example to print the date, I have this in .vimrc: iabbrev mydate <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y") Now I'm running a VM with FreeBSD as ...

Disclaimer: I tried to find a generic title for this question but I was overcomplicating the whole thing... Use case: In a JS file, I have an expression like: if (someVar === 'someValue') { ...

I was just started with Vim. While experimenting with basic customization techniques, it began to behave differently. Somehow the default configurations changed to very basic for both GVim and ...

consider the simple code class HotDrink{ public: virtual ~HotDrink() = default; virtual void prepare(const int& vol) = 0; }; class Tea : public HotDrink{ public: Tea() = ...

I have a file in Mediawiki format, containing internal links (in a Mediawiki installation) * [[Topic A]] * [[Topic B]] * [[Vim]] (The asterisks are how MediaWiki lists are formatted, they are not ...

When I'm in a modified buffer and try to open a file using :e otherFile I get E37: No write since last change (add ! to override) Since this happens fairly often, I'd like to automatically save ...

I'm new to vimscript and writing a function to toggle a terminal buffer. Here is what I tried: let g:toggle_term = "<C-j>" let g:term_buf_nr = -1 function! ToggleTerminal() if g:...

I'm new to vim so I'm not sure if this is intended behavior or not, but it seems like a bug. Desired Behavior After sourcing vimrc from within nvim, don't duplicate the contents of my statusline. Or ...

When jumping to a tag it seems that ":" are ignored for the purpose of "under the cursor" (I'm assuming it's "word" "under the cursor"). For example if I want to jump to myTree::Node something I ...

Last week, I turned off 'number' and have been using only 'relativenumber', plus a line/column count in my status line. I don't really look at line numbers that much. But now I've had a radical idea. ...

I'm using :term bash to show a terminal buffer as it is specified in :h terminal-use. But the problem is that it is appeared on the top of the currently active vim buffer. Is there a vimrc ...

I know per my question remove trailing dashes in foldtext that I can remove the trailing dashes from collapsed fold lines. When a fold is 'open', the sign column has pipe characters '|'. I looked at ...

I try to write a vim syntax file for folding if-else statements with the syntax: if <condition> then <block to fold> [else <block to fold>] end if Current approach syn region Then ...

I like my own plugin full vim that I use, but every time I ssh to a server I have to reinstall those plugins and customizations. Does anyone have an easy method to install my own customized vim on ...

I've installed coc following the instruction, using Vim-Plug (before that I did it without installing yarn and with kite still (partially) installed. I got a 'javascript file not found' error So I ...

I implemented a fuzzy filter, which accept a list argument, open a window with a scratch buffer whose content set to the list, then waiting for use input and do filtering. Here is why I ask this ...

When I set foldtext to a simple value like getline(v:foldstart), vim should show the current line, as opposed to the usual + and appropriate number of hyphens - for the foldlevel. However, vim fills ...

I'm using fzf's Rg command to populate QuickFix window with all search results. I also have my own mappings to :cn and :cp commands. Everything is fine except one thing when I press mapped key for :...

I can't remember start from when and why, i always add ! to function and command: function! .. ... endfunction command! ... But :h E122 says: When a function by this name already ...

To reproduce it : make first change. save make second change. save save (I have a bad habit to save twice sometimes.) execute :earlier 1f , both changes lost. What's even weird is that you need to ...

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 ...

When I'm writing, I often have 2-3 buffers open. My main body of text in the middle, and then supporting materials on the left and right. I often read a paragraph from one of the supporting buffers ...

tester.84tester:tester -> tester.84tester:tester84 this is what I need to be done, thank you for any help.

I wanted to have my vimrc automatically update when I write to a .vim file using this autocmd: autocmd BufWritePost *.vim,$MYVIMRC source $MYVIMRC But for some reason when I have this enabled and ...

I got an error when opening my .vimrc with vim saying ".vimrc" 138L, 3781C Error detected while processing /home/fbence/.vim/view/~=+.vimrc=: line 117: E518: Unknown option: termkey= line 118: ...

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: ...