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Often I comment-out a block of code using block editing. I know there are tools for doing this (e.g., NERD Commenter), but I sometimes need/prefer to do it my own way. However, when I use insert ('I')...

In the vim help doc, it says: *CTRL-M* *<CR>* [count] lines downward, on the first non-blank character |linewise|. That is, in the normal mode, <CR> has the same ...

I'm making a simple colorscheme based on one I found on the vim website. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=854 I'd like it to be declarative in the sense that the colorscheme is ...

When we call :Gdiff on a file, fugitive will create a buffer with a name fugitive:///path/to/file/. The modifiable option is off and readonly option is on. Most importantly, the file does not exist on ...

By default, supertab is inserting a regular tab when the previous character is a space. I would like to keep this behaviour but with the following exception: if the previous character is a space but ...

now the cursorline leaves a hideous gap between the number column and the wrapped text, is there any way or trick to make the cursorline take care of the whole part of the wrapped line including the ...

I began to get the error Error detected while processing BufRead Auto commands for "*.sh": E117: Unknown function: dist#ft#SetFileTypeSH when I opened shell scripts (*.sh) I think it happened after ...

I'm using flake8 to check my code with ale plugin. I found a way to make it work with Python 3, but it seems it does not recognize Cython file (.pyx) even if we set as follows. let g:ale_linters = { \...

When working in the C language, sometimes you have to write multi line macros like the following. #define SOME_FUNCTION_LIKE_MACRO(a,b) \ foo(a); \ bar(b); ...

Is it possible to override an autoloaded plugin-function? I want to customize an airline-internal function just like this: diff --git a/autoload/airline/extensions/default.vim b/autoload/airline/...

I use vim a lot to edit tex files. When I have lines spanning multiple display lines, most of the time I want to navigate through them with gj not j (i.e. according to displayed lines, not physical ...

My current pane resize mapping are bind Left resize-pane -L 5 bind Down resize-pane -D 5 bind Up resize-pane -U 5 bind Right resize-pane -R 6 I have to type the key binding strokes and the arrow ...

I guess many of you are like me, and even if they have been using ViM for years, still learn new features regularly. The last that I learned was :diffp[atch] patch/name Now, I want to combine it ...

I need to match Issue in .conf filetype and highlight it with custom color but set in mode line instead of a fix in syntax/conf.vim file. The use-case is for each kind of document I need to highlight ...

When navigating in normal mode by j or k, I want to skip commented lines. Is it possible? Is there a vimscript snippet for that?

I love the keybindings zt zb and zz. They redraw the current window such that your cursor stays at the same place in the document, but it moves on your screen. The cursor will now be at the top, the ...

It is a weird behavior, and it's only happening on one of my laptop (they're both provisioned with the same script) which is the reason I'm having troubles identifying where does this come from. I ...

As the title says, how to list the content of jar in jar. Suppose, you have a .jar file a.jar, in which you can with vim a.jar get a list of the content, like: a1.txt a2.txt b.jar With vim, you can ...

I have a config file that have placeholder PKG, in workflow, I need to replace this PKG with a string but typing :%s/blah/blah/g cost time. I need a quick map key that asks for a string to replace ...

I'm running neovim from a uxterm on arch linux with the solarized color scheme. The issue is that on scrolling only the characters which are non-whitespace are displaying the correct background. ...

I'm currently learning Vimscript, but I'm stuck at a particular problem. I'm creating a statusline which shows the full path (~) of the file currently displayed in the buffer. Instead of just using %...

$ ssh username@ip $ login $ vim filename When in normal mode, if I press "*p, I will get an error: E353, nothing in register " What's the problem?

:nnoremap 00 $ What I expected is to make the cursor to move to the end of the current line after a double hitting of "0". But actually, it will make the cursor go to the next line, why?

I want to change the behavior of <Space> when the popup menu is open using this map inoremap <expr> <Space> pumvisible() ? "\<Down>\<Enter>" : "\<Space>" However, ...

I would like to replace every number n in my document with n+1. Easy: :%s/\([0-9]\+\)/\=(submatch(0)+1)/g Now I would like to replace every number n with n+1, only when the number has exactly three ...

How do I remap key combinations with a free variable? For example, let's say I want to be able to insert a single letter without leaving normal mode. I would want something like nnoremap <leader&...

If there is some text between quotations, such as "x = 5" I can type ci" in normal mode to delete the text inside the quotations and switch to insert mode. I often want to perform this same action ...

Marks are saved in .viminfo I would like to have separate marks saved per session. Is there an easy setting to make this switch? I know I could write some vimscript to save my session marks ...

I am having a very long line file, I have to break the line into number of small lines. Example: < this>is a testing< /this>< next>testing< /next>< tested>successfully&...

The two registers "* and "+, what is the difference between them? Maybe they are all about OS clipboard?

I tried to make a function function! WrapSelect (front, back) "puts characters around the selected text. execute '''<, ''>s/\%V\(\_.*\)\%V\(\_.\)/'.a:front.'\1\2'.a:back.'/' nohl ...

Note: I am not looking for a working substitution for my command (allready have that), but for an explanation. I have the following code: include <stdio.h> char ga[] = "abcdefghijklm"; void ...

CASE 1: Have your autocmd command be setup like this: autocmd User ALELintPost call SayHello() " ALELintPost is async And your SayHello function set up like this function! SayHello() abort ...

I added the following command to my .vimrc, which is designed to insert a blank line below the cursor nnoremap <leader>o mzo<esc>`z The sequence of this command is mark the cursor ...

I changed vim backup directory to be stored on .backup folder in my dotfiles local repo set undodir=$HOME/.dotfiles/backup//. it works well as expected but i want to separate actual dotfiles ...

By :set hl, the search result of a / expression is highlighted, for example: And if one wants to replace one substring distinguished by its surrounding, one can do so elegantly using regex capture ...

I have a vim configuration file (~/.vimrc) with the following settings: colo delek syntax on highlight clear CursorLine highlight clear CursorLineNR highlight clear LineNR highlight LineNR cterm=...

I have the following in my .vimrc: :set colorcolumn=81 This sets the background color of every window's 81st column to red. I would like to disable this for "pop-up" windows like syntastic's error ...

I am using neovim with the gruvbox colorscheme. On its github page, you can see the buffers word on the top right is colored in orange: On my installation, it grey/brown: How can I find out what ...

how do I search/substitute in every other line. :s/pattern1/pattern2{2}/g file looks like 1 pattern1 text 2 pattern1 text 3 pattern1 text 4 pattern1 text Output file should look like 1 pattern1 ...

Sublime Text has the concept of projects which map to a folder. When you search for a file or search for text within files, sublime presents the following search form: Find: Hello World Where: <...

I am comforable with using history of edited files that is kept in viminfo, the one that sets the limit in the first setting of set viminfo='100,... variable. After I've started using mutt as email ...

When vim is split into different panes horizontally, each pane has its own statusline. It's easy to highlight the statuslines differently based on current and non-current panes. BUT, I cannot figure ...

I set option to meta have successfully mapped <m-left> <m-right> in iTerm by choosing to send escape sequence [1;5C and [1;5D when pressing alt-left and alt-right, but when I set alt-up ...

In my .vimrc file I have set noshowmode However, upon starting vim, :set noshowmode? returns showmode. Something must be adjusting this setting upon startup (perhaps a plugin?). What's the best way ...

If I understood it correctly gruvbox has it's own airline and you don't need vim-airline installed. I followed the easy install with Vundle but for some reason the airline just doesn't load. I'm using ...

For example suppose i have 1 the cat jumps 2 over the moon I would like the result 1 the cat jumps over the moon In general how can I move line X onto the end of line Y. A solution that would ...

Given code: <option id='Nicole' data-language='en-AU'>Australian English - female - Nicole</option> <option id='Russell' data-language='en-AU'>Australian English - female - Russell&...

I run Vim in terminal and it was keeping to override the background color using it's own, so I added this lines to my .vimrc highlight Normal ctermbg=NONE highlight nonText ctermbg=NONE and ...

I'm trying to disable autochdir in nvim by adding the following in init.vim: set autochdir! but when I start nvim, I check the value of this option by echo &autochdir and find it equals to 1. I ...