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My .vimrc has, autocmd FileType rust autocmd BufWritePre <buffer> call LanguageClient#textDocument_formatting_sync() This works great, unless my LanguageClient crashes. Then I can't write the ...

Is it possible to pass arguments to Vimscript functions with the --argument or -a format, similar to arguments in the command line? I am writing a command that submits a job in a remote machine. I ...

I am trying to set norelativenumber on CmdlineEnter and relativenumber on CmdlineLeave, but it didn't work. Why is that? local setup = function() vim.api.nvim_exec([[ augroup SmartNumberGroup ...

Using vim, I know that I can replace all occurrences of a string across multiple lines by specifying a count or a range, as documented in :h subst. I have a markdown table which contains C function ...

I wrote a little function to highlight a current line when navigating which basically mimics this emacs package. It works fine for navigating between windows. function Util.flash_cursorline() vim....

My problem is that I know vim only as well as I absolutely have to, and I think I may have gotten into trouble getting this jedi-vim to work... I use the following arch for my plugins: pathogen ...

I had a file called a.txt open in vim. I mashed some keys (I really don't know which) but when I tried to save the file :w I got the above error. Same when I tried to quit the file. Finally, I forced ...

I am trying to search for the location of the start and the end of a pair with searchpairpos(). Given an example like this: *hel[]lo* And my code like this: local start_match = vim.api....

I use the solution from this question to display tabs with litlle ⸱ characters. It works but they appear on a lighter gray background than the dark gray background I am using. It is quite distracting ...

I'm often using <C-u> and <C-d> to quickly navigate around in my code (I don't like using { and } since they're hard to type on my layout). One thing that annoys me is that <C-u> and ...

I am trying to learn about jobs and channels on Vim (on Windows), and I am using the following sequence as an example: let job = job_start("cmd") let channel = job_getchannel(job) let ...

I use Vim for academic writing and my preferred writing method is using stenography with Plover. Is there any initiative to integrate Stenography/Plover into Vim? Currently, I am switching keyboards ...

I use vim for coding and also for writing scientific articles and book chapters. It would be very interesting to know the time I spent on a file. For example how many hours or minutes the buffer was ...

So here is a little experiment: with a clean config (i.e., no previous ~/.vimrc or ~/.vim/), do: $ mkdir -p ~/.vim/plugin/ $ vim ~/.vim/plugin/foo.vim And in that file, enter the following, save &...

How can I get the current cursor position in Lua? I want to get a number so that I can use it in a for-loop. I tried this, but I got a hashed value instead: local lineNum = vim.api.nvim_win_get_cursor(...

I am trying to use reverse searching from PDF documents to their respective *.tex files. I use vim (in terminal) as my editor and my PDF viewer is Zathura. Forward searching works however the problem ...

I am trying out <expr>, and I found out not all ex-mode command can be run in a function. :LspInfo is a command from nvim-lsp. function! Message() LspInfo endfunction nnoremap <expr> gd ...

I want some autocmds to run when I open a file without a filetype like nvim (no file name) or nvim myfile (no extension). I also want them to run when opening certain file types like text and markdown ...

I teach classes that cover both Vim 7 and Vim 8. Is it possibly to install Vim 7 and Vim 8 together on CentOS? If so, how? Everything I've have looked at so far covers updating Vim 7 to Vim 8. I ...

I am trying to use <count> and -count to make a command repeatable. This is the command I have right now: command! -count=1 Hello :d <count>. But I got this error instead when I run :...

To hard-wrap a single line, we can use gqq, and to hard-wrap multiple lines, we can select them in visual mode and then use the same gqq command. However, I suppose that there is probably a smarter ...

I want to do the following: autocmd changeFromItoN * if &readonly == 0 && filereadable(bufname('%')) \ | silent update | endif That is: I want to implement the ...

I'd like to match in Vim any whitespace character, not only normal space (U+0020) and tab (U+0009) with \s, and the other ASCII ones like form feed (U+000C) with [[:space:]], but any Unicode ...

I have been using :Files to get a list of files using fzf.vim. Although whenever I hit enter to open a new file and the current file has not been saved I get an error message saying No write since ...

Say we got this sentence: pafpaf apfa fpa i apa panda pafas af I would like to quickly move the cursor from the start of the line to the beginning of the word panda. I could do 6fp, but what takes ...

Let's say I have 10 files opened in buffer with vim *. One way of saving the name of all those files inside a new file would be using the command: :argdo !echo % >> filenames.txt This command ...

I'm quite a newbie to vim/neovim. Now I'm searching for a way to detect which file type I'm editing at the moment; if it's something like .java or .py, I want to execute the corresponding compile ...

I have the following code from lines 6-20 <div> 1 </div> <div> 2 </div> <div> ...

I'd like to edit text with markdown syntax. Searching for ways of using mixed syntax in the same file I've discovered this question with an answer saying that if I add the line let g:...

Let's say I entered a folder with many files and I opened them with vim *. I know that if I want to list all the files inside the buffer I can use the command :ls, and then I can navigate those files ...

Commands I use a lot are commands like: dib (delete everything between two surrounding parantheses) di{ (delete everything between two surrounding curly brackets) ... it works for a few other ...

The situation is this: I have 2 sessions: s1.vim and s2.vim. First one was saved with files A, B, C in buffers list. Second one was saved with file A. Next I start vim: vim -S s1.vim. :ls shows A, B, ...

In the bottom two lines, you'll see the statusline saying "INSERT", and the line where you enter commands showing -- INSERT -- This is quite redundant, and I would like any recommendations ...

I am using neovim to work on a Swift project, so I have set up an autocmd to run swiftformat when I write Swift files as shown. autocmd BufWritePost * if count(['swift'],&filetype) | silent ...

I am trying to map MarkdownPreviewToggle to an key like "mk". My vimrc is like it: nnoremap mk <Plug>MarkdownPreviewToggle But it doesnt work, what should i do? (the other key isnt ...

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of ...

When you first open vim there is a text that says "VIM - Vi IMproved version......" Is there a file or setting you can use to change this default text? I've looked on the internet and here ...

I've set conceallevel=0 in .vimrc, but the text is not shown normally after opening .tex file. I have to type it again while the file is open and it works. From my .vimrc: "vimtex config set ...

Between :%! exe "!..." exe "!bash -c" shellescape(...) I'm getting quite confused as to what exactly Vim invokes. And I suspect at some point it invokes bash -c bash .... Is ...

I installed the neovim extension for vscode today and a really weird problem occurred: Whenever I type, after a few words the cursor just jumps back to the beginning of the line, and it doesn't seem ...

I've noticed that (coc-)vimtex gives suggestions about bib(la)tex keys and allows too searching in the entries of the literature. Now this search works sometimes for me, sometimes not (see the gif). ...

This is similar but I am unable to draw the information I need from it: How to store all occurrences of a multiline search in a register? I have these lines ################### trim 8 ...

In netrw, I want to copy a file /dir/subdir1/file.txt to /dir/subdir2. For that, I do the following: I mark the file /dir/subdir1/file.txt I navigate up directory and mark /dir/subdir2/ as target ...

I'm on Arch Linux with alacritty, zsh and neovim nightly (NVIM v0.5.0-dev+1069-g02a966386). I've read several posts on disabling the mouse in vim including 13566 and have put the following in my init....

I'm having some graphical issues with my setup that means I sometimes need to restart my machine having not saved a file which is currently being edited in vim. However, the saved file which vim ...

Using a simple example: h[]ello If I type 2o<esc>, the cursor will be moved to the last inserted line like this: hello [] But if I type 2O<esc>, the cursor will be moved to the last ...

This top line shows how it needs to be formatted, and the other 3 lines show how it currently is formatted. I need the bottom three lines to look like the top line. So, I need to essentially cut this ...

tldr; How do pass stdout of BufWritePost to an external command? On command line I can run cat index.html | tidy -indent -modify I'm trying to call tidy automatically when I :w This is what I have so ...

I want IDE-like look when I start vim. 3 columns. Leftmost, at 15% width, file & symbol browser, then 60% width of main editor space and 25% showing debug points and run logs on right most part. ...

I've been browsing vim's help and noticed there are some topics which have multiple E### tags and others with just a single E### tag. I'm curious as to what the significance of these E### tags are. My ...