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Expected behaviour Syntax highlight should work even after CTRL-F Actual behaviour Syntax hightlighting stops working after scrolling to next page Steps to reproduce using nvim -u NORC: nvim -u ...

Is it possible to narrow the text to a region, or function, and widen it as needed, as is possible in emacs via narrow-to-region ?

I have two tabs open, file1.txt and file2.txt, each with different content. How can I copy the whole content of file1.txt and overwrite file2.txt with it, resulting in both files having the same ...

I'm trying to setup a simple environment which would allow me to work on a local file and it's remote counterpart. Both files are accessible on my filesystem. So let's say I have : File 1 : /home/...

I am running an Ubuntu Subsystem for Windows 10. Within Ubuntu, I worked on a small file via vim and backgrounded it (CTRL-Z) and foregrounded it (% job #) multiple times over a couple day period. Out ...

I'm trying generate a list of files with find and use it in quickfix mode. I'm executing the following commands: set errorformat=%f !find . -type f -name "proto_*.c" > tmp.txt copen tmp.txt but ...

How can 2-space indenting be shown as 6 column tab-style indents when editing, while remaining as 2-spaces? Background: a team uses a convention of 2 spaces for indenting code I prefer indenting of ...

There is a bit in YouCompleteMe that I do not understanding. It is the following bit from the documentation: Configuring through Vim Options --- EDIT --- So to clarify the question: How different is ...

Result of auto-indent in vim (filetype indent on) main() { case $1 in --ssh) echo "sshing into ${aws_ips[$1]}" ssh -i VPN_NODE_1.pem ${aws_ips[$1]} ;; --scp) ...

I have a weird problem. I wanted to install the airline plugin via Plug. It works so far, but looks boring without any powerline fonts. I installed them via git clone git@github.com:powerline/fonts....

I just installed spacevim , i tried to follow it https://spacevim.org/use-vim-as-a-python-ide/ and it worked but when I want to run a python3 program it works but it stops on line 2 i don't know why. ...

I want to create a simple notes file and manager it with vim. The system is really easy (plain text rules): - [ ] new entry - [x] done entry Well, in my .vimrc I only have the keybind for add new ...

I've been going through learn vim the hard way and am currently adding abbreviations via autocmd. I've added the following to my .vimrc augroup outputs autocmd! autocmd FileType php :...

[Arch linux 4.18.14 with Vim 8.1 and Syntastic 3.9.0.] I am trying to configure the syntastic plugin on vim with a checker for Chef recipes. For that I installed the plugin dougireton/vim-chef inside ...

Sometimes Gvim uses cmd.exe and terminal pop up or blinks in few miliseconds as a external window. How to force Gvim to use internal terminal in split? This behaviour causes anoying blinking or ...

I "inherited" a custom syntax script and I want to update it since it's a little out of date. The text file for which the syntax highlighting is written contains several blocks like this: {Group1 ...

I have a tpl file, which contain a custom proprietary language and javascript. YCM correctly reads the js, but goes grazy on the custom code. Like: $$GENERATE-HTML$ | Item unkown <script> ...

I am trying to master VI and found some nice tricks to replace a letter with a single :%s/ command and this works. If I'd like to replace for example word with wardos I can use :%s/word/wardos/g and ...

At every opening of a special file I want vim to automatically highlight all the lines, where the 7th character is a 1. How do I do that?

I'm using Vim to develop C on Linux. When I press K in order to open man page for the underlying word, I don't have control on which man section is opened. Is there a way to specify that somewhere ?

Are there simple tweaks that I can visual select everything with in a pair of fold markers? Just like what vi" will do for a pair of double quotes. Preferably vi plus some other keys.

underlying question: Is there a way to operate on text within a regex match? I.e. is there an analog to the 'g' command that operates on match substrings instead of lines usecases: One example of ...

I have digraph enabled :set digraph I really like the digraph setting in vim, but I often find it changes my keystrokes to some foreign character without my intention. I can see that there are ...

In one version of VIM that I run, when I hit the "tab" key in insert mode, it indents the whole line, regardless of the cursors position in the line. Here is what I believe to be the only modified ...

gVim under Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver seams to have <C-c> (Ctrl-C) mapped to cancel the visual selection, despite not being mapped at all. :map <C-c> No mapping found To ...

Lets pretend I have a Vim session with buffers that look like this: +-------------+--------------+ | | | | | | | | | | ...

call feedkeys('gg', 'int') seems to work, but what would be the Vim configuration language equivalent?

The issue My custom highlighting styles for Visual mode selection of text is not as it was. It use to be yellow background with black text. Now it is just underlined. Environment vim 8.0 term, not ...

I have a presentation to make for a conference and I'm not allowed to use slides, only live coding. Is there a tool in vim which will help me avoid typos ? :) Something like doitlive which you can ...

When using the ex command change (c), carriage returns become part of the input, so how do you indicate that you are done entering text? (I notice that if I hit the backspace, it finishes the command,...

I'm looking for a way to precisely set the cursor position given a virtual column. Is there only :exe "normal! ".vcol."|"? NB: I need virtual columns as they're the only thing that I'm able to ...

Since dot (.) is the range indicator for the current line I was expecting :.co to copy the current line, but it does not do this. What am I doing wrong? In contrast :.w my_line.txt will write the ...

Is it possible to see what arguments vim was invoked with when it was run? vim -O foo bar To show -O foo bar, but especially if there are configurations set like -Z?

Why does :new create a split? What is the use case for that functionality? Normally when I open a new scratch buffer, I don't want it to be in a split.

This works fine in vim 8: autocmd CursorHoldI * stopinsert After about 5 seconds or so of inactivity in insert mode it automatically returns to normal mode. However, in neovim I use the deoplete ...

I'm trying to write a simple function that wraps a visual selection of lines with Markdown ``` lines. Here's what I currently have: function! MarkCodeBlock() " Add Markdown code-block delimiters ...

I'm trying to create a function to make editing TSV files easier. The function changes spacing settings, turns off wrapping, and creates a 1 row tall split at the top so that the column headers are ...

Consider the text A B # C # D Is there a text object or motion that will select lines A and B if the cursor is on either, but not select lines C and D? ap or ip with the cursor on any of those four ...

I just finished reading Learn Vimscript the Hard Way, and I am working right now with neovim And I had a bulky config file with a lot of stuff, that really slowed down vim, when I was handling heavy ...

For a longer running vim session, the number of buffers increases. However, often $VIMRUNTIME files, system files and netrw buffers can usually be closed with “closed” eyes. These are typically read-...

I'm using vim for my matlab editor. And It works nicely, except I cannot get folding to work. I found my syntax file on github: matlab.vim And I wanted to add folding. I changed the line syn ...

I am trying run a job_start command and place the output in a buffer. So, for example, if I start Vim and run let job = job_start('/bin/sh -c "echo hello"', {'out_io': 'buffer', 'out_name': '...

Let's say I have Foo BAR Baz Quxxx Foo Baar Asd Duxxxxx Bar Foo Baazzz Kuxx Baz I would ideally like to be to highlight the first, second, or third column. Then I would ...

I'm wondering if it is possible to check in vimscript if a key (or key combination) is already bound? I know about the :map command which lets me see visually which keys are bound to what actions, ...

For example, I wish to change 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 to 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 Where this is not necessarily at the start of the line. How can I do this?

I usually open files one in a single vim application. Occasionally, I open multiple files at once to fix some mistakes in batch, for example, after static analyzer. If I was edited files in the ...

I would think this would work to make backspace delete the entire previous word in insert mode: imap <BS> <C-W> but it doesn't. Tried in vim 8.0 and neovim 0.2.2 iterm2 if that matters. ...

If I set spell, Vim seems to only recognise some ordinal numbers: 1st, 2nd, etc. are fine, but anything from 10th to 20th is apparently misspelled. Then 21st, 22nd and 23rd are fine, but then they're ...

Newbie question: Are counts commutative? 2d2w is the same as 4dw, right? Is it the case for all commands that (count1)(verb)(count2)(whatever) the same as (count1+count2)(verb)(whatever)? If counts ...

I like the set colorcolumn=80 option which highlights the column at 80 characters, however I find it annoying when working with multiple split windows. I'd like to have an option to enable or disable ...