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I have modified a function from CKolkey's dotfiles - ToggleTerminalDrawer (line 230) so that it works for Vim8.2 (instead of neovim). Here is my modified function now in my vimrc: nnoremap <silent&...

I am looking for a simple few key command which would move till the last occurrence of a character in the line. Is there anything already existing? The alternative is to jump to the next specified ...

I often select a region in visual mode for properly indenting it. However, after pressing e.g. 3>, visual mode exists and the selection disappears. How can I re-select the previously selected ...

This is better shown than explained. The first image shows how line wrapping works in VScode, and the second in vim. In VScode the wrapped line continues at the indentation level of the line, rather ...

I have a function that builds my status line by appending values with statusline+= depending on the context. Everything works, except that if I try to call a function in the following form: setlocal ...

I know that in insert mode CTRL-Y can insert the character above the cursor. Is there a way of inserting the word above the cursor in insert mode ?

I have netrw_browse_split set to 4, so typing <Enter> on a file on netrw will open it on the previous window. But if the previous window have a file, it will be closed. How can I make opening ...

I'm using https://github.com/yegappan/mru I remember in the past having an option to set the length of the list, but can't find it now?i

I'm using gnome-terminal for first time (after using xterm for many years). And the one keystroke that no longer works within gnome-terminal from my Vim application is Function Key F10. I've turned ...

One can change the search color of search terms with the Search highlight scheme. Similarly one can change the color of a line in the quickfix window with QuickFixLine. However, how does one change ...

I am working with latex files. I want to have a normal mode remapping which compiles my current file and a latex file named main.tex (both in my current working directory). The command to compile is:...

I'm using vim's built in helptags command to create a tags file in LaTeX. While LaTeX files are not the txt files normally used, helptags seems to work just fine, and generates an empty "tags" file ...

Here is a typical workflow I would like to follow: copy some data from Excel spreadsheet into the clipboard in vim , delete the data in the file using ggdG then paste the data into the file from the ...

I know this question has been asked many times, but what I've noticed is that the majority of them seem to be for gVim or Vim for Windows rather than Linux command line Vim. I'm just wondering how I'...

Does anyone know how to prevent these annoying messages? bash$ gvim foo Warning: Name: subMenu Class: XmCascadeButton Illegal mnemonic character; Could not convert X KEYSYM to a keycode ...

I've noticed that sometimes in ViM the status bar shows me the command I've just executed (for instance, if I keep the key 'l' pressed to keep going right, I see at the bottom right of the screen a ...

Using set confirm or the confirm-quit plugin makes it so that vim always confirms quit. But in gvim, if you just press the X at the top, it always quits -- no confirmation (unless the file is unsaved) ...

Does Vim have functionality similar to tmux's display-panes command for selecting (goto) a specific window by number? Sometimes when I've many windows open, it can be a pain to navigate them by C-w ...

I have matched parentheses, but highlighting failed as it transcends up the recursion stack. I just need to know if there is a solution to tracking pairs of delimiters during Vim highlight syntax of ...

Preface: I might be asking the wrong question, so I'll just say what my problem is first. Whenever I use ^Z to background vim, then later (can be hours later) run fg to bring it back, YouCompleteMe ...

I'm highlighting folds and color columns in colors different from the background and from each other. Here's an excerpt of my vimrc with all (potentially) relevant lines: " ~/.vimrc ... " Folding ...

This problem that seems trivial is beating me real hard. I'm trying to create a couple of syntax highlighting directives for a custom language that is structured in paragraphs separated by at least ...

I understand that we can use da{ to delete a whole {} block in vim. I am wondering if there is a corresponding version with { replaced by $ (similarly for di{) as this would be very useful for people ...

While ssh'd into my server, vim hangs for a variable amount of time (about 2 seconds, but can be longer or shorter) when opening and closing. It's worth noting that (to my eyes) the delay is the ...

I really like the feature of VIM that lets you explore directory hierarchies, and even enter into zip files, and explore the file hierarchy within them. I would like to extend VIM to support other ...

I want to go to the search result in the right-window, identified after performing a /urllib search in the left window. Pressing n\N doesn't proceed to search results in other windows. How can I ...

How do I write control characters in a file using Vim? For example, I want to write the backspace character, which is invoked using ^? (or the dedicated Backspace) key on the keyboard, to a file. But ...

Vim packages work by updating 'runtimepath' to include the top directories of the plug-ins in each package (and also the after/ directory), but the Vim documentation on packages isn't absolutely clear ...

I'm trying to type the following latex in nvim: f_{high}=\{1209,1336,1477,1633\}Hz. For some reason, nvim is rendering this as: fₕᵢgₕ= \{ 1209, 1336, 1477, 1633\}\si{Hz} How do I fix this?

The documentation of Latex-Suite says I can customize the generated environment boilerplates by defining g:Tex_Env_... variables. This works for me. Nevertheless, it goes on to say that for ...

How using vim serach and replace change title: <Translation {...messages.title} />, title: <Translation {...messages.header} />, title: <Translation {...messages.message} />, into ...

The latest version of Vim, 8.2, has a new feature called "popups" or "popup windows". They sound interesting but I'm not quite sure what they're good for. Can you enlighten me...preferably with some ...

I have this file Another comment program start end This is a comment Anything after end or before program must be highlighted as a Comment. I've battled with vim for hours, what am I doing wrong? ...

Maybe a stupid question but is it possible to run neovim on a GUI like gvim or mvim? I need some GUI to do remote work within Filezilla Thanks

Cscope not workings as described in their tutorial. Vim is version 8.1. I have Cscope compiled into my Vim (:version shows +cscope and :echo has("cscope") returns 1). Also, when I use cscope at the ...

I want to open and edit files in FileZilla with gvim without opening a new window every time. I searched online and found this but it doesn't open in same gvim window. In Filetype associations . /...

I've been a vim fan for almost 5 years right now and never moved to any other editor. Since my background in deep learning and NLP, I realized that there a lot of new development in source code ...

I'm trying to use vim as a hex editor. I am using the %!xxd / %!xxd -r method, and it worked fine until I tried a some bytes that didn't work as expected : 00000000: 1337 6161 6161 6161 6161 6161 ...

I'm trying to get omnicomplete working in neovim (0.3.4) on debian 10 with Ruby 2.6.6 (rbenv). I have these plugins: Plug 'vim-ruby/vim-ruby' " ruby ...

For example this function signature has several braces [ and ]: matchaddpos({group}, {pos} [, {priority} [, {id} [, {dict}]]]) What it means? Unnecessary argument?

I am very fond of Vim's :terminal, though whenever I use Ctrl-w (expecting to erase the last typed word at prompt), Vim captures the key press and enters pane navigation mode. So I end up having to ...

When I search a text file for a word from within vim, it will highlight all matches for the word by changing their background color -- to olive green on my terminal; your color may vary. I am looking ...

Question How can I read a file into the current buffer and do some template substitution on it automatically? Background I'm working on a simple bash-driven logging / journaling capability. (on ...

When I scroll inside vim white spaces seem to get highlighted. Also the background color is the one I use to signal the 80 column while it should be the same color as the terminal as it can be seen in ...

I have a bunch of csv files which look sort of like this: date,receiver,client,article_id,amount 5-12-2019,thomas,thomas,2,23 5-12-2019,joe,joe,2,14 6-12-2019,tobias,bob,4,1 now I would like to ...

I use :%s/'/"/g to replace all single quotes ' with double quotes " in a plain-text file but when I want to put this command in a vim macro in .vimrc let @r=':%s/'/"/g' opening vim will give me ...

I wrote a vim-script function, which allows me to grep a keyword in my project. function! CustomGrep(...) if a:0 == 0 silent vimgrep <cword> **/*.h **/*.hpp **/*.c **/*.cpp else ...

You can go forward, to the beginning of next word, with w/W. You can go forward, to the end of the word, with e/E You can go backward, to the beginning of the word whit b/B How do you go backward, to ...

I use Vim to write Latex code and I would like to have autoindent when adding environments. I am aware of the smartindent capabilities that can be toggle on and off by inspecting the $VIMRUNTIME/...

I uninstalled vim 8.1 which is the available version through my package manager and installed 8.2 from source. But Backspace and Delete buttons behave in a different way in this version. If you are ...