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Aligning variables and comments in vim
I've looked for this since a long time but I can't seem to find anything relating to this. It could be because of my poor searching skills.
Whenever the code starts getting long, its obvious that we ...
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Is there a way to get the coordinates of the character that was clicked from a <LeftMouse> bind?
I'm trying to create a plugin that will, when the user clicks the mouse, switch focus to the window the user clicked in without changing the cursor position in that window. To do this, I intend to ...
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QuickFix window default postion
It seems that the QuickFix window is created on the bottom of the upmost right vertical split.
If I start with two splits:
When I open the QuickFix window (:copen) the QuickFix windows is created as ...
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Regex to delete all leading blank lines
Is there a Vim regex to delete all leading blank lines in the file?
text
more text
some more text
Should become:
text
more text
some more text
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What vim plugin is hijacking my session to give me grep information I don't want?
I'm not sure how better to phrase this question. I have not recently installed anything new—in fact I'm a bit overdue to upgrade my three-year-old Linux Mint install—but in the last couple months I ...
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Remap line completion to Ctrl-X
I am trying to remap the line-completion command (^X^L) to the simpler ^L (or Ctrl-L, or <C-L>).
VIM's help (see :h ins-completion) suggests the following :
:inoremap ^L ^X^L
I tried adding ...
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Sort from current column from visual selection
I am trying to write a :sort wrapper that sorts from current column.
command! -bang -range=% -nargs=* Sortc exe '<line1>,<line2>sort<bang> <args> /\%' .. virtcol('.') .. 'v/'
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How to make % motion work with quotes?
Is it possible to have % motion work with matching quote " or '?
For example if we have text:
"Lorem ipsum is placeholder text (commonly used in the graphic),
'print, and publishing ...
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Regex replace for equal sign in whole file
I'm trying to do a simple replace for all equal signs and subsequent characters until end of line: %s/\=.+\n/\n/. However this gives E866: (NFA regexp) Misplaced =.
If I try instead to simply replace ...
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Vim don't recognize python310.dll in Miniconda virtual environment
If I use the following
set pythonthreehome=C:\\Users\\myname\\Miniconda3
set pythonthreedll=C:\\Users\\myname\\Miniconda3\\python39.dll
I have no problems, but if I set the following
set ...
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Change the keys for accepting coc dropdown?
When I type in Vim, I get autocomplete from coc.
To accept one of the items on the list I need to press Ctrly.
I would like to change this button to Enter but I cannot figure out how to do so. I do ...
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Vim automatically inserts "* " add the start of every new line in css files
If theres a "* " at the start of the previous line Vim automatically inserts a "* " at the start of the next new line. I want Vim to not insert anything.
examples:
1|* {margin: 0;}
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How can I execute a command after searching with `/`?
After a search command / (i.e., in normal mode) is done, I would like another command to be executed automatically. At the moment the other command should be :normal! zz, in order to center the found ...
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How can I restore the behavior where h and l stopped at the beginning and end of the line?
After quite some time of using Vim I wanted to switch to NeoVim and set it up with more IDE-like features.
So I googled and took the first thing I found (LunarVim/nvim-basic-ide/), thinking I could ...
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Disabling undodir and backupdir for specific paths
My email client creates files in /tmp and my password manager under /dev/shm when editing. The first is just unnecessary to store the undos for longer than the lifetime of the file, the latter is ...
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How to call a command with remapping in neovim?
Say I have a normal mode mapping on key P, for sure it can be executed in command mode:
:lua normal! P
Now I want to do this in lua, so I tried:
vim.cmd('normal! P')
and NeoVim executed it as "...
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How can I diff two files from different start positions?
In an editing session I have 2 buffers in 2 windows.
I would like to compare a part of file 1 with a part of file 2.
The plugin LineDiff would do what I want but because of problems in Kubuntu I have ...
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Does gvimfullscreen.dll working with gVim 9.0 on Windows?
I used to use gvimfullscreen.dll to toggle a full screen window state on gvim for Windows. It made gvim full screen, not maximised, with no titlebar.
I have not used gvim on Windows for some time ...
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Edit history in Neovim
I'd like to edit my command history at ~/.local/share/nvim/shada/main.shada to remove some incorrect commands.
I open the file with nvim main.shada, remove the commands in question, and close the file....
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How can use :grep with range in neovim with ripgrep as external grep program?
I am using ripgrep as external grep program in neovim. Which works when I call :grep 'pattern' in neovim Command Mode.
I frequently have to search some strings within a blocked range in long json ...
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Vim with termguicolors in Windows Terminal outputs wrong color
I'm running vim9 built from source (v9.0.0594) with MSys2/MinGW64 on Windows 11 with the following command.
vimd --clean +"set ls=2 tgc"
In the old conhost terminal, the colors are output ...
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Where is the `o:` variable prefix documented?
I'm aware of :help variable-scope, which describes the following:
buffer-variable b: Local to the current buffer.
window-variable w: Local to the current window.
tabpage-variable t: Local ...
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Efficiently viewing log files
I have a log file, with each line containing log level {NOT_SET/TRACE,DEBUG,INFO,WARNING,ERROR,CRITICAL}.
I would like to have the following functionality:
Define custom levels and their priority
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The <++> pattern: how to use it properly and why is it compiling? [closed]
Using Latex Vim, the symbol <++> appear automatically when I open and close curly brackets.
I have understood that they are a kind of marker to jump from one subpart to the other in the document....
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Is there any website for sharing vimrc? [closed]
Is there any website where we can send our .vimrc configuration and users can upload their files and we can see and download their files?
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What do I need in my ~/.vimrc to make neovim act like vim?
I'd like to be able to use Neovim with my usual Vim configuration by running nvim -u ~/.vimrc.
However, Neovim seems to introduce a few changes to the default Vim key bindings, such as Y no longer ...
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Snippet lookahead trigger
Using UltiSnips, I'm wondering if it's possible to do some lookahead assertion when detecting the trigger.
For example, this works:
snippet "dv" "derivative" ir
\dv{$1}{$2}$0
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How do the * and + registrers behave in the virtual console?
My Vim is installed with +clipboard support, and all works just fine.
I know that the clipboard comes with X, so there isn't such a thing in a virtual console (or, at least, this is what I've ...
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How to enable fira code font in vim [closed]
So, I'm using vim on Ubuntu terminal on my windows laptop (I'm not sure if it's Ubuntu, here is the image),
I can't find any way to use fira code font. Please help me. Thanks in advance.
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Pre-Migration Risk Assessment - Vim to Neovim (5of8)
(Shared preamble)
With my pending adoption of Ubuntu MATE 22.04, I am looking primarily at Neovim, with possible adaptation as SpaceVim/LunarVim. I am comfortable with Vim, but am looking for a ...
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Pre-Migration Risk Assessment - Vim to Neovim (2of8) [duplicate]
(Shared preamble)
With my pending adoption of Ubuntu MATE 22.04, I am looking primarily at neovim, with possible adaptation as spacevim/lunarvim. I am very comfortable with Vim, but am looking for a ...
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Pre-Migration Risk Assessment - Vim to Neovim (1of8)
(Shared preamble)
With my pending adoption of Ubuntu MATE 22.04, I am looking primarily at neovim, with possible adaptation as spacevim/lunarvim. I am very comfortable with Vim, but am looking for a ...
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How to set the scrolloff for the pop up menu?
setlocal scrolloff=1 changes the scrolloff for the buffer. I want to change the scrolloff for the popup menu when I press <C-N> or <C-P> in INSERT mode. The scrolloff variable has no ...
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How to remap default vim text-object keys to different keys like ' to n
I use ci', va" pretty often, I would like to map text-object keys like " ' to more accessible keys like m, n since writing cin, vam is much easier than ci' va".
I tried the following
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What does this output means (in vim) when I do/undo and redo?
Whenever I do undo and redo in vim, I saw this output, the #number changes.. but what is it ? Where to see the #number .. ?
Also, I find it hard to know what. I have accidentally changed or undo ...
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How can I install fzf in vim without using a plugin manager?
I have fzf installed in manjaro (/usr/bin/fzf, /usr/share/fzf), but I can't seems to figure out how to install fzf for vim. I'm having trouble following these instructions: https://github.com/junegunn/...
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Mappings that work in nvim not working in vim
I have these key mappings that I use a lot in nvim, but they don't work in vim:
" Move lines with Alt+Shift+j/k
nnoremap <A-S-j> :m .+1<CR>== ...
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Behaviour: ${PWD} when open from Caja vs open from terminal
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Feb 01 2022 09:16:32)
Included patches: 1-2269, 3612, 3625, 3669, 3741
Not sure why there is a discrepancy in behaviour.
View of start folder:
Sequence ...
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How can I prevent Vim from exiting visual mode?
If I enter visual mode, select some text, then run a command or press a keybinding, it will exit visual mode afterward because it assumes I am done.
But sometimes I want to do multiple things with ...
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On linux some keys from my keyboard do not work (azerty laptop) [closed]
I just installed Ubuntu on a French azerty laptop. I do not have a numeric keypad and a lot of keys are only accessible through combos, like the @ symbol is only usable if i click on alt gr + 0. At ...
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Small issue when running Python code straight from VIM
I want to be able to set up the hot key \\ to be able to write and run python script from VIM without each time having to type in
:w
:! python3 file.py
What I have done so far is pasted the following ...
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Vim only sometimes choosing to copy to system keyboard
I have the following situation. If I open a file in Vim, say by running vim myfile.tex, select something in visual mode, and do "+y, it is in the system clipboard as one would hope. If however I ...
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How are the french spl files produced? Can they be updated?
Is there any information on how the french spl files are produced? I notice there is a sug file that downloads via netrw but this does not seem to be available at:
http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/...
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Copy content inside brackets and the word in front of bracket (i.e. a text object for function calls)
Quite often I copy or remove content inside brackets d% or y%.
MyAwesomeClass(
///content
)
But this way I get:
(
///content
)
Is there a way to copy word in front of the bracket too? So that ...
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How to configure Neoformat to use Prettier?
Installed Neoformat with Plug in init.vim for Neovim 0.7.2 on Linux Mint 19.3
I can't figure out how to get Neoformat to work with Prettier.
I installed Prettier as a snap package in --devmode, so ...
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When starting neovim with tmux command in split pane, the layout is broken [closed]
I'm new to nvim and tmux. and I tried to start nvim with tmux commands, but the layout of nvim is broken after starting, and then I start nvim manually, the layout will be normal.
Here is screencast: ...
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Abandon Vim and adopt Neovim - hard reasons for not doing so? [closed]
With my pending adoption of Ubuntu MATE 22.04, I am looking primarily at neovim, with possible adaptation as spacevim/lunarvim. I am very comfortable with Vim, but am looking for a proper ide layer ...
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vim-airline customization: parse substring from current branch name
We're formatting our branch name like feature/HD-1234_tiny_description where "1234" refers to a Jira ticket number. I'd like to only display this number in vim-airline (along with vim-...
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Setting a filetype for piped input
Is it possible to set filetype when starting vim?
I would like to get C highlighting when doing something like:
$ echo 'int main(){return 0;}' |vi -R -
from a shell.
I have tried adding --cmd 'set ...
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Trying to get rid of buffers with :%bd fails
I have trouble with buffers in Vim (8.0 on a rhel8 server) apparently. That said ... I was not aware of the exitance of buffers before facing this problem. So as you can see, my expertise in vim is ...
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